Trojjical Africa in the National Collection. 567 



Plerocymia megalaria. 



Eubolia megalaria, Guen., Phal, ii, p. 489 (1H57). 

 Uuholia atroclarata, Walker, xxvi, 1737 (1862). 

 Eulolia atrosigillata, Walker, xxvi, 1739. 



1 $, Lagari, Brit. E. Africa. 1 $, Ndimu, mile 469, 

 Uganda Railway. 1 $, Machakos. 



Walker's types from South Africa are in this collection ; 

 Guenee's type came from Caffraria. 



Plerocymia multilinearia, nov. 



O, ?. Antennfe, palpi, frons, and liead ochreous-brown, body 

 ochreous-grey ; fore-wings with the ground-colour white, crossed by 

 four straight bands composed of brown lines, the second band with 

 the inner line thick, the others with the outer band thick, tlie three 

 first bands with an interior indistinct line ; marginal line brown, 

 cilia grey; hind-wings ochreous-grey, without markings : under-side 

 pinkish-white with some of the lines on the fore-wings visible, and 

 a discal outwardly bent pinkish-grey line across the liind-wings. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch, 



Hcth. Eb Urru, Brit. E. Africa (Betton). 



Allied to P. albiclatcsa, Warren, from Natal, Nov. Zool., 

 iv, p. 236, but that insect has the fore-wings of a dark 

 fawn-colour, the first two bands obliterated, hind-wings 

 white, but the bands visible are somewhat similar. 



Plerocymia dulcis. 



Uuholia dulcis, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), iv, p. 245 

 (1879). 



1 $, Madagascar (type). 



Genus Gonanticlea, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1892, p. 3. 



GONANTICLEA OBTUSA. 



Gonanticlea ohtusa, Warr., Nov. Zool., ix, p. 517 (1902). 



2 ^, 2 $, Kukuyu, Brit. East Africa. 2 $, El Burgon, 

 mile 478, Uganda Railway. 1 $, Ndimu, mile 469, 

 Uganda Railway. 



Warren's types from the Escarpment are in coll. Roths- 

 child. 



