530 Colonel C. Swinhoe on the Geomctridie of 

 CEdicentra gerydaria, nov. 



J . White sparsely irrorated and striated with grey ; antennae 

 black ; a black spot at the end of each cell, and on the fore-wings an 

 inner evenly outwardly curved thin grey band ; both wings with a 

 sinuous discal brown line, marked witli black in parts, some grey 

 marks near the outer margin, and a black streak at the anal angle of 

 the hind-wings ; body and wings below white, the band and mark- 

 ings blacker, broader and more pronounced, legs with black spots 

 and streaks. 



Expanse of wings Ifl^ inches. 



Hal). AsHANTi (Bergman). 



Allied to the preceding, differs much in the shape of the 

 inner band of the fore-winffs. 



Genus Ectropis, Hlibn., Verz., p. 299 (1818). 



ECTROPIS OCELLATA. 



Edropis ocellata, Warr., Nov. Zool., ix, p. 520 (1902). 



1 ?, mile 478, Uganda Railway, Brit. E. Africa. 2 ?, 

 Lagari, Brit. E. Africa. 



The types from the Escarpment are in coll. Rothschild. 



Ectropis squalida. 



Ophthalmodes squalida, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), ii, 

 p. 465 (1878). 



1 ?, Aburi. 1 $, Old Calabar (type). 



Ectropis zebrina. 



Eacotis zebrina, Warr., Nov. Zool., vi, p. 56 (1899). 



1 $, without locality. 1 $, Old Calabar. 1 ^, Sapele, 

 River Niger. 



The type, a male from Warn, is in coll. Rothschild. 

 This is probably a form of squalida. 



Ectropis nacaria, nov. 



$ . Body and fore-wings olive-brown, frons and top of head 

 ochreous-white ; fore-wings striated with whitish fine marks, and also 

 with dark olive-brown ; two ochreous-whitish transverse bands, the 

 first before the middle, nearly upright, with sinuous sides and brown 

 centre, the other discal, elbowed outwards above the middle, and 

 containing a blackish sinuous line in its middle ; a dark brown large 



