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spot just below the outer end of the elbow, and some paler brown spots 

 below it; a pale space connecting the brown spot with the margin; 

 hind-wings pale olive-brown ; a brown spot at the end of the cell, an 

 obsciire discal whitish band with some brown marks in it, an obtuse 

 and much broader brown band between it and the outer margin, 

 which is sordid ochreous ; both wings with black marginal lunules 

 and blockish patches on the sordid ochreous cilia ; under-side 

 whitish irrox'ated with brown, a brown spot at the end of each cell 

 and a broad discal Ijlack band, connected with the outer margin 

 below the apex on the fore-wings. 

 Expanse of wings 1 iV inches. 



Hah. AsHANTi {Bergman). 

 Genus AscoTis, Hlibn., Verz., p. 313 (1818). 



ASCOTIS SELENARIA. 



Geometra sclenaria, Schiff, Wien Verz., 101, 7 (1776). 

 Boarmia reciprocaria, Walker, Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasg,, 



1 (ii), p. 866 (1869). 

 Ascotis sclenaria, var. fasciata, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv, p. 92 



(1897). 



1 $, Congo (type recip)rocaria). 1 $, Eb Urrn, Brit. E. 

 Africa, 1 ^, mile 478, Uganda Railway. 



Warren's type, a female from Grahamstown, is in coll. 

 Rothschild ; it is a very curious variety with a broad 

 chocolate band across the disc of both wings ; there is a 

 male from Natal in the B. M. similarly coloured, and so is 

 the female from the Uganda Railway above referred to. 



Genus Boarmia, Treit., Schmett. Eur., v, ii, p. 433 (1825). 



Boarmia marmorata. 

 Chogada marmorata, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv, p. 247 (1897). 



2 ^, 1 $, Mauritius. 



The type, a male from Mauritius, is in coll. Rothschild ; 

 it is one of numerous local forms of B. acaciaria, Boisd., 

 but is a good form. 



Boarmia acaciaria. 



Boarmia acaciaria, Boisd., Faun. Ent. Madag., p. 116, pi. 



16, f. 4 (1834). 

 Chogada betularia, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv, p. 93 (1897). 



