new African Moths. 457 



Larva. Black-brown banded with white, the paired anal 

 appendages long and thorny. 

 Allied to C. spirit alls, Dist. 



Cerura leonensis, sp. n. 



9 . Head and tegulse white tinged with ochreous ; palpi 

 and sides of frons black ; antennas with the branches black, 

 the shaft irrorated with black at middle ; a black point on 

 vertex of head; thorax white, with blue black band behind 

 tegulse, the dorsum blue-black, followed by a bar on meso- 

 thorax and paired bars on metathorax, the pata<;ia with 

 paired blue-black spots ; pectus black in front, the tibiae with 

 black spots and the tarsi black except at base ; abdomen 

 white sparsely irrorated with blue-black, more thickly at 

 extremity, the second segment with dorsal black band, the 

 ventral surface white, with the extremity black slightly irro- 

 rated with white. Fore wing silvery white; subbasal line 

 represented by a small black spot on costa, then by an irregu- 

 larly sinuous line of black scales ; an antemedial oblique 

 band formed of black spots irrorated with white, the spots 

 above and below vein 1 confluent ; three rather wedge-shaped 

 black spots on medial part of costa, the medial line arising 

 from the middle spot, forming a slight curved striga on 

 discocellulars, represented by a few scales on vein 2 and a 

 slight line from submedian fold bent outwards to inner 

 margin ; an oblique black bar beyond the discocellulars ; an 

 elongate postmedial black mark on costa ; the double post- 

 medial line arising beyond upper angle of cell, a slight line 

 of scales on its inner side connected with the discoidal striga 

 at lower angle of cell and enclosing the bar beyond the cell 

 except above, the outer postmedial line almost obsolete 

 beyond the cell, theu the double line angled outwards at 

 veins 3, 2, and 1 and inwards below vein 2 ; a small black spot 

 on costa before the black subterminal line, which is incurved 

 below veins 6 and 3, angled outwards at veins 3, 2, and 

 inwards below vein 2; a series of black spots on termen and 

 cilia, two spots forming a pair above tornus. Hind wing 

 white ; a black spot above middle of inner margin ; the veins 

 towards termen slightly streaked with black and the apex 

 irrorated with black ; cilia almost wholly black towards apex, 

 then with series of black spots, the spot at vein 1 extending 

 onto- termen. Underside white, both wings with black 

 discoidal spot and broad terminal band, narrowing to termen 

 above tornus of hind wing ; fore wing with black spots on 

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