Tropical Africa in the National Gollcctio7i. 511 



1 $ , Abyssinia. 1 g , N'Gami Country. 2 $ , Machakos, 

 Brit. E. Africa. 



The types in the B. M., and in coll. Rothschild are 

 from S. Africa. 



Tephrina disputaria. 



Euholia (?) dispittaria, Guen., Phal., ii, p. 489 (1857). 

 Diastictis disputaria, Swinhoe, Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon., ii, 

 p. 272 (1900). 



1 ^ , 1 $ , Kirbelis, Brit. E. Africa. 



Guenee's type of this very widely-spread moth came 

 from Egypt; it is in the Museum from many parts of India, 

 and from Aden, and has many names. 



Tephrina catalaunaria. 



Psamatodcs catalaunaria, Guen., Phal., ii, p. 108 (1857). 

 Macaria falsaria, Walker, xxvi, 1649 (1862). 

 Panagra (?) cogitata, Walker, xxvi, 1661. 

 Aspilates proxantliaria, Walker, xxvi, 1679. 

 3Iacaria holina, Swinhoe, P. Z. S., 1885, p. 861. 



2 $ , Abyssinia. 2 ^ , 3 $ , Yelwa Lake, Borgu, N. W. 

 Nigeria. 1 ^ , Ngare Rougai Swamp, Brit. E. Africa. 1 $ , 

 Neugia. 1 <^, Eb Urru. 1 $, Kilimanjaro. 1 ^, 1 $, 

 Nyassaland. 



Guenee's type came from Catalonia ; Walker's type of 

 falsaria from Ceylon, of cogitata and proxantharia from 

 S, Africa, and the types of holina from Poena are all in this 

 Museum. 



Tephrina cinerascens. 



Acidalia cinerascens, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), xvi, 



p. 418 (1875). 

 Tephrina antennata, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv, p. 399 (1897). 



1 $ , Machakos. 



The type, a female, is from S. Africa. Warren's type, a 

 male from Rustenburg, is in coll. Rothschild ; Warren also 

 records it from Dar-es-Salaam. 



Tephrina presbitaria, nov. 



(^. Pale bone-colour, faintly tinged with ochreous, sparsely 

 irrorated with brown; bands and marks pale brown; fore-wings 

 with the inner band indicated by two or three spots; both wings 



