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black ; a pale waved antemedial line ; the medial area with series 

 of black and pale points on costa ; a black diseoidal spot ; a pale 

 minutely waved postmedial line defined by black on inner side and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black spots ; cilia 

 reddish with dark lines at middle and tips. Hind wing fuscous 

 with indistinct blackish diseoidal spot; a pale curved postmediil 

 line ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia pale with diffused dark line 

 through them. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Ajinak {Dudgeon) 2 c? , 1 $ type ; N. Ni- 

 geria, Minna (Macfie), 3^,1$, Zungeru (Macjie), 2 J , 2 2, 

 Bida (Macfie), 3 § ; Mashonaland {Bobbie), 1 $ . Exp., 6 20, 

 ? 26 mm. 



(15 h) Sfemmatopliora fusilinealis, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous suffused with rufous, the 

 terminal half of abdomen with black strongly mixed ; fore legs 

 black-brown, the tarsi ringed Avith white ; mid legs suffused with 

 black-brown, the tarsi whitish ringed with black. Fore wing 

 ochreous sufPused with cupreous red and slightly irrorated with 

 black ; a diffused curved black antemedial line ; the medial part of 

 costa with series of white points with black between them ; a small 

 black diseoidal spot ; a diff'used black postmedial line, angled in- 

 wai'ds at discal and submedian folds and with its outer edge 

 minutely dentate ; traces of a waved subterminal line formed by 

 black scales ; a terminal series of black striis ; cilia Avith blackish 

 lines near base and tips. Hind wing ochreous suffused with 

 cupreous red ; an indistinct cuiwed slightly waved dark postmedial 

 line ; a terminal series of black stria? ; cilia with blackish lines near 

 base and tips. Underside ochreous suffused with cupreous red ; 

 fore wing with series of whitish points with blackish between them 

 to the postmedial line, the other markings as above. 



Hab. Br. C. ArmcA, Mt. Mlanje {Xeave), 3 c? , 1 $ type. 

 Exp. 22 mm. 



(5 ff) HerciiUa roseotuicta, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen v/hite tinged with pinkish brown ; 

 palpi and legs suffused with red-brown. Fore wing whitish suf- 

 fused with brownish pink and faintly irrorated with brownish, the 

 costal edge whiter; antemedial line white, angled outwards below 

 costa, then oblique ; a slight brownish diseoidal spot; postmedial 

 line white, oblique ; a whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 white, the terminal half tingetl with pink except towards tornus ; a 

 faint white postmedial line slightl^^ defined on inner side by pink ; 

 a terminal series of pink points to submedian fold ; the cilia tinged 

 with pink and with whitish line at base to submedian fold. Under- 

 side of fore wing rose-red, the inner area white, the costa with 

 series of white points with brown between them to the obliquely 

 curved white postmedial line ; hind wing white, the costal area 

 suffused and irrorated with pink, a slight pinkish diseoidal point, a 



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