322 Mr. Chr. Aurivillius oil New African 



- Beralade bettoni, n. sp. 

 (Plate XVI, fig. 9.) 



Dark fuscous grey, upper-side of thorax somewhat paler ; tarsi 

 ringed with black ; fore-wing fuscous, veins paler, a blackish stripe 

 in cell, a broad oblique, nearly straight, blackish stripe from apex to 

 middle of hind margin, a similar marginal stripe ; hind-wing and 

 under-side of both wings dark fuscous, unicolorous. 



Expanse 32 mm. 



Brit. East Africa : Nakuro (0. S. Betton), February. 



Beralade (Chilena) simplex, n. sp. 



(Plate XVI, fig. 6.) 



Bright yellowish brown ; fore-wing with two transverse, slightly 

 curved, somewhat oblique and nearly parallel blackish brown lines, 

 a minute brown dot at end of cell, cilia brown ; hind-wing with a 

 distinct, median, slightly curved, dark brown transverse line ; both 

 wings beneath with a transverse median brown line. 



Expanse 27 mm. 



Natal : Durban (Col Bowker). 



Differs from typical Chilena in vein 8 of hind-wing 

 anastomosing with vein 7 from its origin. 



BOMBYCOPSIS CONSPERSA, n. Sp. 



(Plate XVI, fig. 4.) 



£ . Yellowish, thorax above darker greyish yellow ; fore-wing 

 greyish flesh-colour suffused with fuscous grey, with two nearly 

 straight transverse pale lines, one before middle very indistinct, the 

 other beyond apex of cell distinct and followed on outer side by a broad 

 fuscous grey transverse diffused band ; a very broken submarginal 

 fuscous line terminating on inner side the marginal area, which is 

 densely suffused with olivaceous grey, no dot at end of cell, the cell, 

 darker than the surrounding parts ; hind-wing pale yellowish with 

 an obsolescent pale flesh-coloured transverse shade in the middle. 

 Wings below ochreous yellow, slightly suffused with brownish or 

 fuscous at costal margins. 



Expanse 45 mm. 



Brit. East Africa : N'gong (E. G. Craicsliay). 

 Nearly allied to Bombycopsis indccora, Walk., and 

 B. venosa, Butl., and somewhat intermediate between 



