Lepidoptera from Tropical Africa. 529 



Aedt'a xanthopha'cs, sp. n. 



^ . Head and thorax dirty grey. Priniuvies yellowish 

 cream-colour, with a basal interrupted iudefiuite black dash 

 ou the fold ; costa very finely blackish, a subbasal blackish 

 spot; median line black, wavy, very fine, followed by a 

 second more obscure one just in front of the reniform stigma, 

 which latter is pale and obscure. Postmedian line dark grey, 

 subcrenulate, excurved in the upper radial area; beyond this 

 line the area is greenish grey, with a subterminal row of 

 line obscure spear-head spots, and a short fine black dash 

 between veins 3 and 4. ; termen finely black and deeply 

 crenulate. Secondaries with the basal half white, the outer 

 half blackish. 



Expanse 34 mm. 



Hah. Gunnal, Portuguese W. Africa; November. 



Type in my collection. 



Aedia melanophaes, sp. n. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark slate-grey. Pri- 

 maries very dark slate-grey ; median line black, fine, trebly 

 exangled, immediately followed by a fine black figure 3 in 

 the centre of the wing ; reniform large, slightly tawny at its 

 external side, finely edged with black ; postmedian line 

 sharply defined, crenulate, black, receding basewards below 

 vein 3, the least trace of a subterminal line, dark internally, 

 tawny externally ; termen finely blackish. Secondaries 

 with the basal portion white, costa and terminal half sooty 

 grey. 



Expanse 38 mm. 



Hah. Gunnal, Poituguese W. Africa ; November. 



Type in my collection. 



Aedia iri'docosma, sp. n. 



(J . Head ochreous grey, collar darker grey with an 

 ochreous reniform mark on each side darkly encircled ; thorax 

 ochreous grey, with darker grey patagia ; abdomen dark grey. 

 Primaries tawny with grey areas, median line irregular dark 

 blown ; cell grey up to this line, fold grey between this and 

 the postmedian line; reniform ochreous grey, postmedian 

 line crenulate, oblique, dark brown ; postmedian area lilac- 

 grey with fine deep chocolate-brown spear-head marks, each 

 side of which is broadly edged with olive-grey; termen 

 with dark chocolate-brown internervular spots. From the 

 median dark line there is an elliptical olive mark darkly 



