Lfipidoptera from Tropical Africa. 515 



Irregular, ratlier obscure ; termeu finely pale, with a fine 

 dark internal edging. Secondaries whitish, with brownish 

 costa, and terminal area slightly brownish. 



Expanse 32 mm. 



Hab. Nairobi ; April (Jackson), 



Type in my collection. 



CiRRODIANA, gen. nov. 



Proboscis present ; palpi upturned, slender, well scaled, 

 second segment reacliing to vertex, third moderate. Frons 

 Avell scaled; eyes large, round; antenna? of male pectinate, 

 branches with tine cilia. Thorax clothed with scales and 

 some hairs, crested in front ; legs moderately fringed with 

 coarse hair. Primaries with costa nearly straiglit, apex 

 slightly rounded, termen moderately erect to vein 4, then 

 rapidly rounded off, slightly scalloped. Neuration with veins 

 3 and 5 from near the angle, 6 from the upper angle, 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 11 from the angle. 

 Secondaries with 3 and 4 from the angle, 5 from well above 

 the angle fairly strong, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell for nearly a quarter. 



Type, Cirrodiana bella, B-B. 



Cirrodiana Bella, sp. n. 



cJ . Head and thorax pink, abdomen dirty ochreous. Pri- 

 maries dull pink up to tlie fine, pale, deeply waved, and 

 irregular postmedian line, with the cell pale olive ; tiie oval 

 orbicular and the reniform stigmata palely edged distinct 

 olive, the latter with pink scales and a fine whitish dash in it; 

 area beyond the postmedian line pale olive. Secondaries 

 whitish grey, tinged with pink and olive. 



Expanse 36 mm. 



Bal. Malange, West Africa; October 1909. 



Type in my collection. 



Paealophata, gen. nov. 



Proboscis absent. Palpi porrect, small, second segment 

 not reaching a quarter up frons, scaled, end segment minute, 

 depressed ; frons scaled, prominently rounded ; no corneous 

 plate ; eyes round, moderate size ; antenna of male bi- 

 pectinate, female shortly bipectinate ; collar long, spreading 

 into a crest ; abdomen with no dorsal crests ; tibiai hairy. 

 Primaries broad, apex rounded, almost acute in the termen ; 

 termen strongly scalloped, rounded, excavated on fold to the 



