neir African Moths. 449 



with brown, a dark discoidal spot and diffused curved post- 

 medial and subterminal lines. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi (Whiteside), 1 S type ; S.Ni- 

 geria, Lagos (Strachan), 1 ? . Exp., $ 42, ? 44 ram. 



Near D. lignea, Butl., from Madagascar. 



Dasychira griseinubes, sp. n. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed with 

 ochreous, the ventral surface of abdomen yellower. Fore 

 wing ochreous suffused with rufous and irrorated with red- 

 brown ; a curved red-brown anteraedial line slightly defined 

 on inner side by ochreous and with a diffused leaden -grey 

 band on its outer side from costa to above vein 1, obscurely 

 forked towards costa ; reniform very indistinctly defined by 

 red-brown, its outer edge with long teeth on veins 6 and 4 to 

 postmedial line, which is red-brown, very strongly dentate, 

 the tooth on vein 4 extending to near termen, double below 

 vein 3 ; the terminal area suffused with red-brown and with 

 a faint sinuous dark line before termen ; cilia black-brown 

 at tips. Hind wing ochreous suffused with rufous ; the 

 underside with diffused brown postmedial line, excurved to 

 vein 5, then incurved and ending at submedian fold, a rather 

 maculate brown subterminal line from costa to vein 2, obso- 

 lescent below vein 5. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Sapele (Sampson), 1 ? type. Exp. 

 42 mm. 



Dasychira poliot is, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown ; an- 

 tennse with the branches rufous ; fore tibiae irrorated with 

 black, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen white, 

 dorsally suffused with pale reddish brown and with some 

 vellow at sides. Fore wing white tinged and thickly irrorated 

 with brown, the veins brown ; traces of a waved autemedial 

 line; a triangular discoidal mark defined by brown ; a brown 

 line from origin of vein 2 to inner margin, angled outwards 

 below vein 2, then slightly sinuous and traces of an obliquely 

 curved line from costa beyond the cell to lower angle of cell ; 

 postmidial line rather diffused, brown, obliquely curved and 

 somewhat dentate; traces of a maculate brownish subter- 

 minal line and a series of small blackish spots just before 

 termen ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing white. 



Hab. Transvaal, White It. (Cooke), 1 ? type. Exp. 

 54 mm. 



Allied to D. horsfieldi, Moore. 



