Tropical Africa in the National Collection. 573 

 Tephroclystia lugubriaria, nov. 



? . Antennae, palpi, and frons blackish, head, body, and wings 

 dark brown, more or less shining, covered with minute brown 

 irrorations ; fore-wings slightly darker than the hind-wings ; veins 

 dark brown, edged with faint whitish ; a black dot pointed with 

 white at the end of the cell ; a snb-niarginal I'ow of distinct white 

 dots ; hind-wings without markings ; cilia of both wings pinkish- 

 white with brown patches ; under-side of a uniform dark grey, 

 without any distinct markings. 



Expanse of wings to inch. 



Hob. RoROMO, Kikuyu (Craivshay). 



Genus Chloroclystis, Hlibn., Verz., p. 323 (1818). 



Chloroclystis marmorata. 

 Chloroclystis marmorata,^ oxw, Nov. Zool, vi, p. 38 (1889). 



1 ^, 1 $, Sierra Leone. 1 $, River Niger, Sapele. 

 The type, a female from Warri, is in coll. Rothschild. 



Chloroclystis consobrina. 

 Calluga consobrina, Warr., Nov. Zool., viii, p. 11 (1901). 



2 $, River Niger, Sapele. 



The types from the Island of St. Thome are in coll. 

 Rothschild, 



Chloroclystis protrusata. 



Chloroclystis protmsata, Warr., Nov. Zool, ix, p. 507 (1902). 



3 ^, 2 $, mile 478, Uganda Railway. 



Warren's types from the Escarpment, Brit. E. Africa, 

 are in coll. Rothschild. 



Chloroclystis sierraria, nov. 



S, 9 • Grey with a pinkish-ochreous tinge ; fore-wings with four 

 transverse outwardly curved brown lines, sub-basal, ante-medial, 

 shaded outwardly with brown at the costa, medial and discal, the 

 medial line sinuous, the discal line rather near the outer margin ; a 

 spot inside the second line, another at the end of the cell ; hind-wings 

 with three lines corresponding to all but the sub-basal line of the 

 fore-wings ; marginal border of both wings broadly brown, including 

 the outer line ; cilia pale with brown patches ; under-side pale grey, 

 with the three outer lines visible. 

 Expanse of wings | inch. 



1 ^, 2 $, Sierra Leone (Clements) (types). 



