Species of VyvaVn]iX>. 17 



suhniedian fold towards termcu ; a black terminal line; eilia 

 tinn^ed with fuscous at tips. 



Had. Cuba, Santiago [Schaus), 1 (^ type. E:vp. 30 mm. 



(93 a) Sylepta planeflava^ sp. n. 



? . Headj thorax, and abdomen yellow, the last with tlie 

 base white ; fore tibise with fuscons band at extremity, the 

 tarsi ringed with fuscous towards extremity ; pectus aud 

 ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing yellow with 

 A'cry faint traces of deeper yellow antemedial line, discoidal 

 bar, and postmedial line oblique below discal fold. Hind 

 wing rather paler yellow. 



Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Mafalu {Pratt), 1 ? type. Exp. 

 34 mm. 



(93 U) Sylepta holochralis, sp. n. 



? . Uniform orange-yellow; palpi with black spot on first 

 joint ; mid femora at extremity and base of tibiae black. 

 Hab. Br. E. Africa, Tanga, 1 ? type. Exp. 32 mm. 



(100 fl) Sylepta methyalinalis, sp. n. 



^. Head and thorax black-browti, the vertex of head 

 "whitish ; palpi banded with whitish ; antennae ringed black 

 and white; thorax with some leaden-grey scales ; pectus and 

 legs white, the fore femora and tibiae with black bands at 

 extremities, the mid tibiae brown above ; abdomen brown, 

 with white band on second segment and white rings on 

 medial segments, the ventral surface white. Fore wing- 

 cupreous brown ; the costal area fulvous yellow to post- 

 medial line ; a sinuous dark antemedial line defined by white 

 marks on each side with a small quadrate white spot beyond 

 it in cell ; a quadrate hyaline white patch in end of cell ; a 

 slight pale discoidal striga ; postmedial line excurved between 

 veins 5 and 2, then retracted to lower angle of cell and 

 angled outwards on vein 2, with trifid hyaline patch beyond 

 it from costa to vein 5, two spots before it between veins 6 

 and 5, a patch in its sinus and a patch beyond it extending 

 to termen above tornus^ two spots beyond it above and 

 below^ vein 2 and one before it in submedian intei'space ; a 

 dark terminal line ; cilia chequered Avhite and brown. 

 ]lind wing seiniliyaline white ; the base with slight blackish 

 marks; a blackish discoidal annulus ; a fine postmedial line 

 excurved to near termen between veins 5 and 2, then re- 

 tracted and interrupted to near tornus ; a black-brown apical 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. x. 2 



