new African Moths. 447 



from costa to just below vein 3 with irregular edges ; an 

 indistinct curved black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; 

 traces of a curved antemedial line and of an oblique medial 

 line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial 

 line indistinct, dentate from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 the pale patch with its inner edge angled outwards below 

 costa and at discal fold and its outer edge angled inwards at 

 discal fold ; the subterminal line only denned by rather 

 dentate black-brown patches on its inner side, the mark 

 below costa placed on the pale patch, then angled outwards 

 to near termen at veins 7, 6, inwards at discal fold, outwards 

 at vein 4, then incurved ; cilia intersected by whitish at the 

 veins. Hind wing greyish brown, the cilia whitish at tips ; 

 the underside ochreous suffused with reddish brown, a 

 diffused discoidal lunule, oblique diffused postmedial line, 

 and diffused subterminal line. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi (Whiteside) , 1 $ type. Exp. 

 56 mm. 



Allied to D. antica, WYk., = albilunulata, Karsch. 



Dasychira magnified, sp. n. 



<£. Head and thorax brown mixed with yellowish, the 

 patagia with some long spatulate yellow and black scales ; 

 antennae with the shaft whitish irrorated with black ; tarsi 

 ringed with yellowish ; abdomen orange, the crests on three 

 basal segments black, followed by black bands on the 

 terminal segments, the anal tuft blackish tipped with yellow, 

 the ventral surface brown and orange mixed. Fore wing 

 pale red-brown irrorated with black, a band of blackish- 

 brown suffusion beyond the medial line, broad towards costa, 

 the terminal area tinged with greyish ; subbasal line blackish, 

 excurved below costa and cell and ending at vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial and medial lines black denned on outer side by 

 greyish, minutely waved ; reniform defined by slight black 

 points ; postmedial line blackish defined on inner side by a 

 yellowish bar at costa, bent outward below costa, then 

 minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 4, then incurved ; 

 a subterminal series of small somewhat dentate black spots 

 defined on outer side by whitish ; a slight irregularly crenu- 

 late black line just before termen. Hind wing bright orange, 

 the terminal area broadly black, its inner edge somewhat 

 excurved at middle ; cilia ochreous white and fuscous mixed ; 

 the underside orange, the costa and the terminal area irrorated 

 with black-brown, a black discoidal spot, a maculate sinuous 

 blackish postmedial band. 



Hab. Nigeria {Dudgeon) , 1 J type. Exp. 64 mm. 



