new Aft lean Cloths. 149 



Gavara camptogramma , sp. n. 



<£ . Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly tinged with 

 ochreous and mixed with brown; palpi brownish; fore legs 

 brownish, the tarsi slightly ringed with white. Fore Aving 

 white suffused and irrorated with brown ; a small blackish 

 spot in middle of cell and rather diffused line from cell to 

 inner margin, slightly denned on outer side by whitish ; a 

 black point at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line white 

 defined on inner side by brown suffusion, excurved at vein 6 

 and to termen at veins 3, 2, then retracted and oblique to 

 inner margin ; a fine dark terminal line from apex to vein 3. 

 Hind wing silky white slightly irrorated with brown ; the 

 underside with brown terminal line. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Machakos (Crawshay), 1 £ type. 

 Esrp. 20 mm. 



Near G. velutina, Wlk. 



Zygaenidae. 

 Staphylinochrous melanoleuca, sp. n. 



3 . Head and thorax red-brown; antennae black-brown* 

 abdomen blackish brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing with the base, 

 costal area, and terminal half black-brown, the rest of wing 

 semihyaline white, the outer edge of the white area oblique 

 and bent outwards at median nervure. Hind wing semi- 

 hyaline ochreous white. 



Hab. Uganda, Entebbe (Minchin), 1 £ type. E.cp. 

 34 mm. 



■ZEgeriadae. 

 Melittia chalconota, sp. n. 



$ . Head glossy grey-brown ; antennae black; palpi white 

 and black ; thorax golden brown ; pectus and fore and mid 

 legs white and black, the hind legs black, with tufts of white 

 and rufous hair ; abdomen black, with yellowish-white 

 segmental lines, the ventral surface white with some fuscous. 

 Fore wing black-brown irrorated with reddish-yellow scales 

 and with white scales on terminal area ; a hyaline streak 

 below the cell, a wedge-shaped patch in the cell bifid at 

 extremity, and a small patch beyond the cell formed by three 

 or four short streaks in the interspaces. Hind wing hyaline, 

 the veins and margins narrowly black, the lobe on inner 

 margin black suffused with grey hairs, the cilia brown. 



