498 Colonel C. Swinhoe on the Geometrid^ of 



Family BOARMIINvE. 



Genus Hyphenophora, Warr., Nov. Zool., i, p. 402 (1894). 



Hyphenophora palumbata. 



Hyphenophora palumhata^ Warr., 1. c. 



1 $, Onitaba, River Niger. 



The type, a male from the same locality, is in coll. 

 Rothschild. 



Hyphenophora conspersata. 



PaTenmelia conspersata, Kirby, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), xviii, 

 p. 895 (1896). 



1 $, Port Alice, W. Africa (type). 

 Very close to H. pcrlimhata, Guen. 



Hyphenophora ^monia, nov. 



5. White with a grey centre; head, thorax, and wings dark grey 

 with a faint greenish tinge, striated with darker grey, more especially 

 in the basal half, which is paler than the outer part ; it is limited 

 by a white distorted band, which runs from the middle of the 

 abdominal margin across the hind-wings where it thickens, and is 

 so continued a short way up the fore-wings where it is oblique, and 

 is continued in the form of small dots towards the apex before which 

 it is bent round ; there is a black dot at the end of each cell, a dark 

 suffusion on the outer side of the white band, and a dark macular 

 band across the disc of the hind-wings, even with the outer margin ; 

 under-side, body, legs, and wings pure white ; a black dot at the end 

 of each cell, no other markings. 



Exjianse of wings 2fV inches. 



Hah. Kampala, Uganda, Feb. 6, 1900 {H. B. Rattray). 



Hyphenophora perlimbata. 



Palyas perlimhata, Guen., Phal., i, p. 396 (1857). 

 Walker, xxii, 613 (1861). 



1 ^, Sapele, Niger River. 2 $, Old Calabar. 1 $, Sierra 

 Leone. 



Genus Rhamidava, Walker, xxvi, 1568 (1862). 



Traina, Walker, Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasg., 1 (ii), p. 372 

 (1869). 



