456 Sir G. F. Hampson on 



ochreous yellow tliickly irrorated with deep blood-red ; an 

 oblique autemedial maculate silvery baud between subcostal 

 nervure and vein 1, defined on outer side by deep blood-red 

 and traversed by a slight blood-red striated line; a grey- 

 brown discoidal bar ; an oblique postmedial series of round 

 silvery spots from below costa to vein 1, the uppermost spot 

 traversed by a blood-red striga, the red and yellow extending 

 to just beyond the uppermost spot; a fine crenulate red- 

 brown subterminal line slightly denned on inner side by 

 grey ; a fine blackish terminal line. Hind wing grey-browm, 

 the cilia pale at tips ; the underside white faintly tinged 

 with brown, especially on terminal area. 



Hub. N. Nigeria, Ilorin (Lugard), 1 $ type Exp. 

 32 mm. 



Allied to S. argyrophora, Hmpsn. 



Centra marshal// , sp. n. 



<$ . Head and thorax white, the teguhe tinged with 

 ochreous; palpi and frons below and at sides black; an- 

 tennae with the branches black and the shaft suffused with 

 black at middle ; a black point on vertex of head ; a black 

 band behind tegulre, the dorsum of thorax black and two 

 black spots on metathorax', the tips of the black scales with 

 a silvery gloss ; tibia? spotted with black, the tarsi black, 

 with some white hairs ; abdomen black, with a few white 

 hairs, the hair at base white, the anal tuft with white hair 

 mixed, the ventral surface white. Fore wing silvery white; 

 a subbasal black point below costa : the autemedial area 

 with some black scales at costa, on vein 1, and above inner 

 margin ; an oblique autemedial black band with irregularly 

 sinuous edges ; a medial black point on costa, followed by a 

 short bar, then a point ; a rather elongate postmedial black 

 mark on costa, followed by two points, and a triangular 

 mark on inner margin just before tornus; cilia with a series 

 of black spots. Hind wing white, with a series of small 

 black spots on cilia and a small triangular spot on termen at 

 vein 1 ; the underside with black discoidal spot. 



?. Abdomen dorsally irrorated with white; fore Aving 

 with the medial bar on costa more prominent, the post- 

 medial patch more elongate, slight black marks above and 

 below vein 5 and some black scales above the triangular 

 patch. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 3 <$,6 ? type. 

 Exp., S 50, ? 58-70 mm. 



