Heterocera in the National Collection. 149 



Geodena semihyalina, nov. 



(J . Antenna? black, shafts oclireous, palpi, frons, head, body and 

 legs ochreous, wings white, very thinly clothed, a large brown spot 

 at the end of each cell ; on the under-side there is some ochreous 

 suffusion on the costa of fore-wings and near the base of both wings. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inches. 



Sierra Leone {GrowUy Bequest). 



Wings broader than in the type species of the genus. 



Geodena bandajoma, nov. 



9 . Antennae black, palpi black above, ochreous beneath, frons, 

 head and thorax ochreous, abdomen whitish, wings white, veins 

 grey and rather prominent, fore-wings with a pale black costal band, 

 and more than the outer third of the wing pale black, almost grey, 

 the excavation of the white into the black is toothed at its upper 

 part and rather more angled than usual in the middle, there is some 

 grey suffusion at the base and along the hinder margin ; hind-wings 

 with a narrow marginal band of very pale black, attenuated at the 

 middle. 



Expanse of wings \{\ inches. 



1 $, Bandajoma, Sierra Leone {Arnold). 

 Geodena accra, nov. 



5 . Antennae and palpi black, frons and top of head white, collar 

 bright orange-ochreous, followed by a black band, body white, wings 

 white, fore-wings with a thin black band on the costa, the outer half 

 of the wing deep black, the white portion curving into it evenly, the 

 black being produced inwardly on the hinder margin to a point; 

 hind-wing with a large deep black apical patch with a black line 

 running down for a short distance on the outer margin. 

 Expanse of wings \h inches. 



1 $, Accra iCroioley Bequest). 1 $, Old Calabar. 



Geodena funesta. 

 Hylemcra funesta, Warr., Nov. Zool., vi, p. 304 (1899). 



1 $, Kampala, Uganda, April 1900 {H. B. Rattray). 



The type from Port Alice is in coll. Rothschild. 



Hylemera ansorgei, Warr., and discinota, Warr., p. 303, 

 belong to the same genus; they are however not in 

 the B. M. 



