Tropical Africa in the National Collection. 541 

 Genus Mimandria, Warr., Nov. Zool., ii, p. 88 (1895). 



MiMANDRIA INSULARIS, llOV. 



j^ , $ . Of a uniform pale greyish-white, tinged with ochreous, 

 covered with minute grey irrorations; a grey lunular mark at the 

 end of each cell ; fore-wings with two transverse outwardly curved 

 ochreous-grey lines, the former ante-medial and sinuous, the latter 

 discal, dentated and more rounded ; hind-wings with a similar discal 

 line, a row of greyish-ochreous spots outside this line on Ijoth wings, 

 and marginal lunules of the same colour ; under-side paler and more 

 sordid grey, both wings with grey cell-spots, a crenulated discal thin 

 grey band and grey lunules in the outer margin. 

 Expanse of wings, (^ ItV, 9 ItV inches. 



5 ^, 1 $, Madagascar (Coivan). 



It is a curious fact that though Warren made tliis 

 species the type of his Genus he forgot to describe it. 



Genus Synclysmus, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), iv, p. 242 

 (1879). 



Synclysmus niveus. 



Synclysmus niveus, Butler, 1. c. 



2 $, Madagascar, including the type. 



Genus Episothalma, Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6), xii, 

 p. 149 (1893). 



Episothalma marginata. 



JEpisothalma marginata, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv, p. 38 (1897). 



1 $, Freetown, Sierra Leone. 



Warren's type, a male from the same locality, is in coll. 

 Rothschild. 



Episothalma kabaria, nov. 



^ . Palpi, antennae, frons, and head brown-pink, body paler ; both 

 wings of a uniform dark grass-green ; costa of fore- wings brown-pink, 

 rather broadly at the base and narrowing towards apex ; a thin band 

 of the same colour on the outer margin of both wings, limited in- 

 wardly by a very sinuous brown line, inside the band being several 

 whitish spots, the largest at the apex of fore-wings ; there are some 

 pale streaks in all these examples, but these are no doubt caused by 

 loss of colour, so often occurring in green moths ; under-side uniform 



