new African Moths. 445 



with diffused whitish patch on disk; two well-separated dark 

 postmedial lines incurved between vein 3 and submedian 

 fold; terminal area dark chocolate-brown, extending to 

 postmedial line on costal area, its inner edge then excurved, 

 angled inwards between veins 3 and 2 and ending on termen 

 above tornus ; a slight dark terminal line ; cilia whitish 

 tinged with red-brown and with dark brown Hue through 

 them. Hind wing greyish brown, the apical area dark 

 brown obliquely from middle of costa to termen at vein 2 ; 

 cilia whitish tinged with brown and with dark brown line 

 through them ; the underside greyish tinged with red-brown 

 and irrorated with dark brown, the apical area darker, a 

 sinuous dark postmedial line. 



Hab. Sierra Leone (Bartlett), 1 £ type. Exp. 32 mm. 



Allied to A. achrodisca, Hmpsn. 



Crgyia vetusta, sp. n. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish tinged with brown ; 

 antennas with the brandies brown. Fore wing greyish 

 suffused with red-brown and more or less irrorated with 

 black, the medial area more or less suffused with fuscous except 

 towards costa ; a faint blackish subbasal line from costa to 

 snbmedian fold ; a diffused oblique sinuous antemedial line 

 defined by whitish on outer side; a reddish discoidal lunule 

 defined by black and produced at upper extremity ; post- 

 medial line diffused, black, dentate and excurved to vein 4, 

 then strongly incurved and defined on inner side by whitish ; 

 a curved subterminal series of rather elongate black spots 

 from costa to vein 3, towards costa placed on a whitish 

 patch; cilia rufous mixed with black. Hind wing brown 

 tinged with fuscous, the cilia paler and tinged with rufous. 

 Underside of both wings greyish suffused with fuscous brown, 

 the terminal area of fore wing and inner area of hind wing- 

 grey. 



Hab. Nigeria (Dudgeon), 1 3, Yorubaland, Ogbomoso 

 [Carter), 1 $ type. Exp. 24 mm. 



Allied to 0. postica, \Vlk., from India. 



Dasychira umbricolora, sp. n. 



Abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. 



<$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen umber-brown, the last 

 with the crests blackish; palpi and frons at sides blackish; 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings ; ventral surface of abdomen 

 white tinged with red-brown. Fore wing umber-brown with 



