510 Colonel C Swinlioe 07i the Geometridie of 



Hah. Tana River, Brit. E, Africa {Crawshay). 



Belongs to Warren's section, Pcridela, Nov. Zool., iv, 

 p. 110 ; the antennse of the male being pectinated instead 

 of simply pubescent. 



Semiothisa butaria, nov. 



t^ . Whitish, almost bone-colour, with a slight tinge of ochreous, 

 sparsely striated with brown, the bands and markings pale brown ; 

 fore-wings with some thicker striations along the costa ; indications 

 of an inner band on one female ; both wings with a medial nearly 

 straight band, rather dislocated on the fore-wings, thin and indistinct 

 on the hind-wings ; a blunt angulated mark on costa of fore-wings 

 before the apex, and a broad band from outer margin below the apex 

 to the hinder margin near the angle ; on the hind-wings this band 

 is purely discal, thin and only faintly indicated ; marginal lunules 

 brown ; under-side like the upper-side, the bands more indistinct. 



Expanse of wings 1 i% inches. 



1 $ , Kilimanjaro (type) (F. J. Jackson). 1 $ , 

 Machakos to Neugia {Crawshay). 1 $ , Central Africa 

 {Eniiii). 



This also belong to the Section Fcridela. 



Semiothisa contaminata. 



Gubaria contaminata, Warr., Nov. Zool., ix, p. 528 (1902). 



1 $, Kikuyu, Neugia. 1 $ , Tiveta Forest. 

 Warren's types, male and female, from the Escarpment, 

 Brit. E. Africa, are in coll. Rothschild. 



Semiothisa fulvisparsa. 



Acadra fulmsparsa, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv, p. 104 (1897). 



1^,1$, Asaba, W. Africa. 



The type, a female from Warri, is in coll. Rothschild. 



Genus Tephrina, Dup., Gat. Lep. Eur., p. 246 (1844). 



Tephrina deerraria. 



Tephrina deerraria,, Walker, xxiii, 962 (1861), 

 Aspilatcs occiqmta, Walker, xxiv, 1071 (1862). 

 Aspilates spissata, Walker, xxiv, 1071. 

 Tephrina deerraria (?) ab. dissocia, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv, 

 p. 112 (1897). 



