430 Sir G. F. Hampson on 



LXV. — Descriptions of new African Moths. 

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



Noctuidae. 



Plvsianje, 



Polychrysia camptogamma, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some greyish ; 

 tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey suffused with 

 brown, whitish at base. Fore wing grey suffused with red- 

 brown and with slight dark irroration ; traces of a silvery 

 streak in base of submedian fold; subbasal line represented 

 by a curved silvery striga from costa; antemedial line repre- 

 sented by an oblique silvery st'iga from costa and inwardly 

 oblique sinuous silvery line from cell to inner margin; an 

 oblique silvery Y-shaped stigma below end of cell, filled in 

 with greyish and with downcurved silvery streak above it in 

 cell, the inner arm of the stigma sinuons, some golden 

 cupreous suffusion beyond and below it ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below the tail of the Y-shaped stigma, where there is some 

 silvery white on it, some greyish points beyond it on costa 

 and an oblique shade from below costa to its outer edge at 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line greyish defined on inner side by 

 dark brown from vein 7 to 2, and a wedge-shaped patch in 

 submedian fold excurved to termen at vein 6, then incurved, 

 a dark patch beyond it at middle ; a terminal series of black 

 stria? defined on inner side by a greyish line. Hind wing 

 brown with a slight cupreous tinge ; cilia greyish with a 

 dark line at base ; the underside grey-brown with diffused 

 grey-white medial shade. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Kikuyu, Roromo (Crawshay), 1 $ 

 type. Exp. 34 mm. 



Plusia gammaloba, sp. n. 



£ . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with grey ; 

 tegulae with slight dark medial line and white tips ; abdomen 

 pale rufous, the basal crest fiery red tipped with grey, the 

 crest on second segment brown tipped with grey. Fore 

 wing bright golden cupreous with slight dark irroration ; 

 subbasal line represented by a silvery striga from costa and 

 double striga from cell ; antemedial line silvery defined by 

 cupreous brown, excurved below costa, angled inwards in 



