446 Sir G. F. Hampson on 



darker shadings and slightly irrorated with black ; ante- 

 medial line hardly traceable, oblique below submedian fold ; 

 a few black scales on discocellulars and traces of an oblique 

 line from lower angle of cell to inner margin at antemedial 

 line ; postmedial line very indistinct, dark, excurved below 

 costa and at middle and incurved at submedian fold, where 

 there is a faint streak of white scales between it and medial 

 line ; subterminal line indistinct, blackish, angled inwards 

 below costa, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards 

 below vein 4, connected below veins 7 and 4 by short streaks 

 with the series of black striae just before termen ; a fine dark 

 terminal line ; cilia chequered brown and black. Hind wing 

 reddish brown, the cilia chequered brown and black ; the 

 underside grey tinged and irrorated with brown, a blackish 

 discoidal lunule and maculate postmedial and subtermiual 

 bands from costa to vein 1. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Lagos, Ebute Meta (Boay), 1 <$ type, 

 Old Calabar (Crompton), 1 <$ . Exp. 32-34 mm. 



Nearest to D. striata, Holl. 



Dasychira thermoplaya, sp. n. 



<$ . Head and thorax pale brownish grey with a diffused 

 red -brown fascia on vertex of head and thorax ; palpi at sides 

 and frontal tuft red-brown ; tarsi with the tufts of scales 

 blackish; abdomen grey tinged with brown, the crests 

 blackish. Fore wing • grey tinged with olive and irrorated 

 with red-brown : a red-brown patch at base of costa ex- 

 tending to just below the cell, where it is produced outwards ; 

 rather conical red-brown patches at middle of costa and inner 

 margin, the former including an indistinctly denned narrow 

 discoidal lunule ; small subterminal red-brown spots on costa, 

 below veins 5 and 2, and on inner margin ; cilia with a series 

 of black-brown spots. Hind wing ochreous white tinged 

 with brown ; cilia with a series of small brown spots ; the 

 underside ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Sierra Leone {Dudgeon), 1 J type. Exp. 30 mm. 



Nearest to D. whitei, Druce. 



Dasychira endophcea, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some red- 

 brown and grey ; tarsi slightly ringed with whitish ; abdomen 

 grey-brown suffused with black-brown. Fore wing black- 

 brown mixed with some red-brown and grey, a diffused 

 ochreous patch suffused with red-brown on antemedial area 

 from costa to median nervure and a large subterminal patch 



