Tropical Africa in the National Collection. 513 



Tephrina semicolor. 

 Tephrinopsis semicolor, Warr., Nov. Zool., vi, p. 311 (1899). 



1 $ , Kikuyu, Neugia (B. C. Grawsliay). 

 The types, male and female, from Mau, Uganda, are in 

 coll. Rothschild. 



Tephrina marmorata. 

 Tephrinopsis mainnorata, Warr., Nov. Zool, iv, p. 114 



(1897). 

 Tephrinopsis marmorata, ab. pallida, Warr., 1. c. 



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



The types from S. Africa are in coll. Rothschild. This 

 species has stood in collections as an aberration of Iron- 

 gusaria, but this cannot be possible, the male having 

 serrated antennas with the teeth distinct and strong; it 

 will form a fresh Section to the Genus, along with the 

 following. 



Tephrina olindaria, nov. 



(J . Pale ochreous-grey, irrorated witli brown ; bands and mark- 

 ings brown ; fore-wing with a small black lunule at end of cell ; ante- 

 medial and medial erect thin bands rather close together, the former 

 bent inwards close to and on to the costa ; an angular mark on the 

 costa before apex ; a thick l)and from the outer margin below the 

 apex to the hinder margin near the angle, the band gradually 

 curving inwards and suffused outwards ; the hind-wings are white, 

 and paler in colour; there is a minute black dot at the end of the 

 cell, and indications in some examples of a thin medial band ; the 

 discal band narrow only on the abdominal half of the wing ; 

 marginal lunules brown, cilia ochreous, brownish towards apex of 

 fore- wings ; under-side ochreous with hardly any markings. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inches. 



5 ^ , 1 $ , Machakos (Crawshay). 



Genus Ccenina, Walker, xx, 217 (1860). 



CCENINA DENTATARIA, noV. 



$ . Ochreous-grey, fore-wings irrorated with dark grey, bands and 

 markings brown ; two very oblique thin bands, ante- and post-medial, 

 the first acutely angled outwards below the costa, the other well 

 curved outwardly, its hinder end curving inwards on to the hinder 

 margin close to the origin of the first band ; some thick suffusion on the 

 costa near the base, two small hyaline patches below the middle, with 



