148 Colonel C. Swinhoe on New Species of 



Genus Xylecata, nov. 



Palpi rather long, first and second joints more than twice as long 

 as the third, upturned, third joint depressed, antennae of the male 

 pectinated to the tips, of medium length, of the female nearly 

 simple, with minute serrations, hind tibiaj with two pairs of short 

 spurs of even length, tarsi short ; fore-wings with vein 2 from a 

 little beyond middle of cell, 3 from before end, 4 and 5 from the 

 lower end, 5 much bent, 6 from upper end, 9 from 8 near apex, 8 

 and 10 from a long areole, 11 from a little before upper end of cell, 

 12 free ; hind-wings with veins 2, 3, 4 and 5 as in fore- wings, the 

 origin of 5 being a little above that of 4 ; G and 7 stalked. 



Xylecata druna, nov. 



S i 9 • Palpi yellow, last joint black, antennae black with a white 

 line along the shaft, frons white with a black spot ; a white spot at 

 the base of each antenna, collar ochreous, head white with a black 

 spot, thorax white with two black spots in front and black strijjes, 

 abdomen white with black segmental bands and ochreous tip ; wings 

 white with broad marginal black borders, the costa of fore-wings 

 narrowly black, the outer border occupies fully one-third, the white 

 portion curving rather irregularly into the border, hind-wings with 

 a narrower and fairly uniform border ; some grey shades and 

 streaks at the base of both wings and along the hinder margin of 

 fore-wings. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inches. 



2 ^, 2 ?, Gaboon {Croivley Bequest). 



Xylecata simplex. 



Nyctemera simplex, Walker, Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasg., i, p. 

 330 (1869). 



1 ? , Congo (type). 



Genus Geodena, Walker, vii, 1691 (1856). 



Geodena quadrigutta. 



Geodena quachigutta, Walker, vii, 1691 ^ . 

 Geodena marginalis, Walker, vii, 1691 $ . 

 Cypra himaculata, Walker, xxxii, 399 (1865). 



1 ^, 2 $, Sierra Leone ( Walker's types). 1 ^, 1 $, River 

 Niger, between Akasa and Asaba (^Lugard). 



