Trojncal Africa in flic National Collection. 565 



prominent ; under-side pure white without markings ; legs striped 

 with ochreous. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inches. 



1 ^ , Free Town, Sierra Leone (type) {Garter). 1 $ , 

 Nairobi Forest, Brit. E. Africa {CratosJiay). 



Genus Somatina, Guen., Phal., ii, p. 10 (1857). 



Nebessa, Walker, Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasg., 1 (ii), p. 375 

 (1868). 



Somatina chalybeata. 



Nebessa cJialyheata, Walker, Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasg., 1 (ii), 

 p. 376 (1869). 



1 $, Congo (type). 1 ^, Accra. 

 Somatina accraria, nov. 



$ . Palpi brown above, frons white, top of head brown, space 

 between the antennae pure white ; body and wings greyish-white, the 

 outer borders suffused with grey ; both wings crossed by two rather 

 zigzag and dentated grey lines, post-medial and discal, rather close 

 together and not very distinct ; marginal line brown, with elongate 

 indistinct lunules ; costal line of fore-wings ochreous ; under-side 

 pure white, without markings ; legs slightly ochreous. 



Expanse of wings lx"xf inches. 



Hab. Accra {Carter). 



Family LARENTIINtE. 

 Genus Pseudosterrha, Warr., P. Z. S., 18S8, p. 324. 



Kliodometra, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1892, p. 75. 



Pseudosterrha intervenata. 

 Bhodometra intervenata, Warr., Nov. Zool., ix, p. 506 (1892). 



1 ^, 1 $, Kikuyu. 3 ^, Machakos. 1 ;(, Munisu, Brit. E. 

 Africa. 1 $, Eb Urru, Brit. E. Africa. 1 ^, 2 $, Abyssinia. 



The types from the Escarpment are in coll. Rothschild ; 

 the Abyssinian examples are larger than the others, and 

 the bands duller in colour. 



