THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 32. AUGUST 1910. 



XV. — Descriptions of new African Moths. 

 By Sir George P. Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Concluded from p. 141.] 



Somara albicosta, sp. n. 



g . Head deep chocolate-brown, with a whitish patch on 

 vertex ; thorax chestnut-brown, the shoulders white ; abdo- 

 men yellow suffused with rufous ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen chocolate-brown. Fore wing chestnut- 

 brown to postmedial line, the costal area pure white to 

 beyond middle, diffused into cell and leaving the costal edge 

 brown, the terminal area whitish suffused and irrorated with 

 rufous ; the postmedial line denning the dark area, slightly 

 incurved below vein 6. Hind wing yellow suffused with 

 rufous, especially on the costal area, veins, and cilia. 



$ Fo^-e wing with the postmedial line straight and oblique. 



Ab. 1. Thorax and fore wing much brighter rufous. — Kili- 

 manjaro. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Kilimanjaro (Hannington) , 1 $ • 

 Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 ? ; Natal, Durban 

 (Quekett, Leigh), 4^,1? type. Exp. 46 mm. 



Allied to S. canescens, Wlk., which has no yellow on the 

 hind wings. 



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