146 Colonel C. Swinhoe on New SjMcies of 



Dasychira ila, nov. 



(J. Antennae ochreous, shafts brown, top of head white, thorax 

 and fore-wings grey, covered with very minute darker grey 

 irrorations, and crossed by six sinixous bands of thin lunules formed 

 by brown irrorations, two apparently near the base, antemedial, medial 

 (ending in a cell lunule and spot), discal (curving outwards) and sub- 

 marginal, the last composed mostly of blurred spots, some of them 

 duplicate ; cilia also with duplicate spots ; hind-wings and abdomen 

 white ; under-side pure white, without markings. 



Expanse of wings IjV inches. 



2 $, Ashanti, Obuassi {Bergman). 

 Abdomen with crests. 



Genus Heteronygmia, Holland, Psyche, vi, p. 414 (1893). 



Heteronygmia manicata. 



Lymantria manicata, Auriv., Ent. Tidsk., xiii, p. 193, $ 



(1892). 

 „ „ Swinh., Trans. Ent. Soc, 1903, p. 



489. 

 Heteronygmia rhodapicata, Holland, I.e., p. 416, pi. 10, 

 f. 15. 



1 ^, Ogave Kiver {Holland). 1 ^, 1 ?, Ashanti. 1 ^, 

 Sapele, River Niger. 2 $, Old Calabar. 



The receipt of both sexes from the same locality induced 

 a careful examination of their structural characters, leaving 

 no doubt of the identity of the species. 



Genus Lomadonta, Holland, Psyche, vi, p. 417 (1893). 

 Lomadonta obscura, nov. 



(J . Brown with a slight ochreous tinge, palpi with some oclireous 

 liairs ; fore-wings with the costa dark brown, a patch on the costa 

 near the apex a little darker than the ground-colour, a transverse 

 medial brown band or fascia stopping short of the costa and the 

 inner portion of the wing rather darker than the outer, an indistinct 

 discal transverse sinuous pale line, a similar sub-marginal line with 

 some small blackish lunular marks on it, marginal line dark brown ; 

 hind-wings paler than the fore-wings and without markings ; under- 

 side whitish with a discal brown line across both wings ; ? much 

 paler than the male, uniform in coloration, with the male marks 

 faintly traceable. 



Expanse of wings ^ \^^, 9 lA inches. 



