LasiocampidcV in the British Museum. 



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Brit. E. Africa : N dimu (G. S. Bcttori) ; Kikuyu 

 (Grawshay) ; Uganda, Kampala {Christy). 



( ^ . Fore-wing more uniform in colour, the patch on 

 inner area paler. — G. F. H.) 



The darkest species of Taragama known to me. 



Ocinaropsis, n. sp. 



Eyes hairy. Palpi rather long, porrect, reaching beyond 

 the frons ; last joint short, pointed. Antennas, nearly alike 

 in both sexes, bipectinate to the apex ; branches much 

 longer before middle, suddenly shorter behind middle, hind 

 row of branches at base much longer than the front row. 

 Legs hairy ; tarsi scaled ; front tibiae unarmed ; spurs of 

 hind tibiae wanting. Fore-wing triangular, rather short ; 

 outer margin angled at vein 5 ; vein 2 from near base, 3 

 nearly from middle of cell, 4 and 5 from angle, 6, 7 and 8 

 stalked, 9 and 10 on a very long stalk, 9 running to the 

 outer margin well below apex. Hind-wing : costal margin 

 nearly straight, lobed at base; outer margin distinctly waved 

 with a longer tooth at vein 2 ; vein 2 from behind middle of 

 cell, 3 from before angle of cell, 4 and 5 on a short stalk ; 

 cell obliquely closed, vein 8 anastomasing with 7 near its 

 base and thus forming a small precostal cell, which has no 

 accessory veinlets. 



Ocinaropsis obscwra, £ 



Ocinaropsis obscura, n. sp. 



Dark blackish grey ( $ ), or blackish brown (<£), thorax and fore- 

 wing with a reddish tint in the male ; fore-wing with very minute 

 white point at end of cell and a double submarginal row of obsolescent 

 black and yellowish minute dots ; hind-wing paler, blackish at anal 

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