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Hab. Uganda, Masevi {Christy), 1 ? , Ruwenzori {Wollas- 

 ton), 1 ? type. Exp. 48 mm. 



Allied to L. diapera, Hmpsn., and fr act a, Schaus. 



Lalia straminea, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with red-brown ; 

 fore tibiae and tarsi red-brown on inner side ; abdomen 

 ochreous white faintly tinged with rufous. Fore wing 

 ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with red-brown ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, red-brown, slightly excurved below 

 costa, then erect; slight brown points in and beyond lower 

 angle of cell and slight points or minute streaks beyond 

 upper angle above and below vein 7; postmedial line red- 

 brown, very oblique, straight ; an oblique subtermiual series 

 of small brown spots in the interspaces from below vein 7 to 

 inner margin ; cilia red-brown. Hind wing creamy white 

 with a faint red-brown tinge at middle of termen ; the 

 underside with the termen slightly irrorated with red-brown 

 from apex to vein 2. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar (Crompton), 2 £ type. 

 Exp. 50 mm. 



Allied to L. rivularis. 



Lcelia yiyantea, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous suffused with red- 

 brown ; palpi with the second joint blackish above; fore 

 femora with some dark brown hair above. Fore wing 

 ochreous suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with 

 black, the basal half paler except at costa and inner margin 

 with oblique outer edge ; traces of a r.ither diffused dentate 

 brownish antemedial line from below median nervure to 

 inner margin ; a small spot formed of aggregated black 

 scales above base of vein 7 ; two rather diffused very Oblique 

 brown postmedial lines and two similar subterminal lines 

 crossed by an oblique brown shade from apex to inner margin 

 just beyond postmedial line. Hind wing ochreous tinged 

 with rufous ; a faint brownish discoidal spot ; the terminal 

 area slightly irrorated with black ; a fine brown terminal 

 line. Underside of fore wing with oblique fuscous-brown 

 discoidal bar ; hind wing with discoidal lunule. 



Hab. Cameroon's, <$ in Coll. Druce; Uganda, Bugoma 

 (Ladbunj), 1 $ type. Exp. 82 mm. 



Allied to L. rivularis. 



Lalia fulvicosta, sp. n. 



<$ . Head and thorax fulvous brown, the branches of 



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