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terminal series of minute white points. Hind wing pure 

 white ; the underside with the costal area tinged with 

 purplish red. 



Hab. N. Nigeria, Bauchi Prov., Kabwir (Foa:),3 (^ type. 

 Exp. 30 mm. 



4106 a. Paromphale chionephra, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax fuscous tinged with grey, tlie back 

 of head and tegulse rufous ; palpi rufous with some fuscous 

 at side of second joint ; pectus and legs white tinged with 

 rufous, the tibiae and tarsi blackish ringed with Avhite ; 

 abdomen white tinged Mith rufous, dorsally irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing glossy grey tinged with fuscous ; the 

 base of costal area black ; antemedial line black slightly 

 atigled outwards below costa, then sinuous ; orbicular a 

 white point defined by black, the reniform a small white 

 spot with some black before and beyond it ; postmedial line 

 black, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal 

 fold, oblique below vein 4 and. slightly excurved at vein 1, 

 some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line 

 defined by a blackish shade before it, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 blackish line. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous 

 brown ; cilia white at tips except at apex ; the underside 

 white tinged with brown, the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a slight discoidal spot, indistinct curved postmedial 

 line and a terminal line. 



Hah. Rhodesia, Zambesi, Victoria Falls {Longstaff), 

 1 ^ type. Exp. 18 mm. Cotypes in Mus. Oxon. 



4305 a. Neostrotia mediopallens, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax dark red-brown ; abdomen red- 

 brown with pale segmental lines, the ventral surface whitish 

 tinged with rufous. Fore wing with the base deep red- 

 brown, its outer edge oblique imd sinuous ; the broad medial 

 area whitish tinged with ochreous ; faint traces of a curved 

 rufous antemedial line with a dark point on it in submedian 

 fold ; orbicular a small fuscous spot, the reniform a slight 

 lunule with black points at its upper and lower extremities ; 

 a very indistinct pale rufous medial line, bent outwards 

 below costa, then sinuous ; postmedial line double, dark 

 red-brown slightly filled in with ochreous and somewhat 

 incurved below vein 5, the area beyond it red-brown with 

 an ochreous apical patch, traces of a subterminal series of 

 ochreous points and a slight ochreous patch on ternicii 



