576 Colonel C. Swinlioe o% the Geometridas of 



row of six or seven rather large spots, five of them in a row down- 

 wards, the two others near hinder margin a little beyond the 

 middle ; hind-wings with a dark brown spot at the end of the cell, 

 a discal row of brownish-ochreous spots, outwardly curved in its 

 centre ; both wings with a brown limular marginal line ; wings 

 thinly clothed ; under-side pure white, without any markings. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



Hob. Sierra Leone {Clements). 

 Rambara thearia, nov. 



^. Antennae and frons brown; palpi, head, body, and wings 

 white ; fore-wings with a large dark brown spot at the end of the 

 cell ; macular bands pale brownish-ochreous, one ante-medial, out- 

 wardly curved, the other discal, lient inwards below the middle 

 and then straight down to the hinder mai'gin a little beyond the 

 middle, the spots rather close together, the upper -pari of the band 

 rather close to the outer margin ; hind-wings with a brownisli- 

 ochreous spot at the end of the cell, and a discal macular band 

 corresponding to the discal band of the fore- wings ; outer margin of 

 both wings with black dots ; under-side pure white, a black dot at 

 the end of the cell of fore-wings. 



Expanse of wings ^^ inch. 



2 ^ , Cameroons {Prof. Sjostedt). 



Genus Brachytrita, nov. 



Third joint of palpi obliquely upturned, short and 

 blunt ; fore-wing with cell less than half the length of the 

 wing ; vein 6 from the end, 7, 8, 9 and 10 stalked from 

 just before end of cell, 11 anastomosing with 12; 10 

 anastomoses with 11 and then again with 8 and 9, forming 

 a double areole : shape of wings much as in the germs 

 Alex, Walker. 



Brachytrita cervinaria, nov. 



(J. Ked fawn-colour, palpi with blackish-brown marks at the 

 tips, frons brown ; head, body, and wings very uniform in colour ; a 

 black spot at the end of the cell of fore-wings, a red-brown thin 

 band from near apex of fore-wings to the abdominal margin of hind- 

 wings before the middle ; under-side paler and tinged with ochreous, 

 both wings crossed by a sinuous grey medial line. 



Expanse of wings li\ inches. 



Hob. Dar-es-Salaam {Fruhstorfer). 



