new African Moths. 461 



Chadisra rosinaria, sp. n. 



Antennae of male bipectinate with long branches, short 

 towards apex. 



<$ . Head and thorax rufous mixed with grey and some 

 black ; palpi with the second joint black above ; tegulre with 

 white band before dorsal part of tips, which are black ; 

 patagia grey at shoulders, rufous above ; a white band before 

 metathorax, which is mostly black ; fore tibiae with black 

 ring ; abdomen ochreous white tinged with brown, a hairy 

 blackish crest at base, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 rufous mixed with some grey-white, the area before sub- 

 terminal line whiter; subbasal line blackish, incurved in cell 

 and ending at vein 1, the area before it whitish; antemedial 

 line black, indistinctly double, especially on inner half, some- 

 what dentate towards costa, then straight and erect ; post- 

 medial line blackish, faintly defined on outer side by white 

 and on both sides at costa and inner margin, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa and at vein 4, then incurved and 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 1, some whitish points with 

 fuscous stria between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line formed of faint whitish spots defined by some black 

 scales and a more distinct black spot below vein. 3; cilia 

 intersected by fuscous at the veins. Hind wing silky white, 

 the hair on inner area tinged with ochreous ; a rufous patch 

 on termen and cilia in submedian interspace defined on inner 

 side by a double blackish bar filled in with Avhite ; the under- 

 side with the costa tinged with yellow aud with slight rufous 

 marks beyond middle and towards apex. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh), 1 tf type. Exp. 42 mm. 



Chadisra ochribasis, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax rufous mixed with ochreous, the 

 patagia mostly white; legs whitish streaked with brown, the 

 tarsi ringed with brown ; abdomen white, with some reddish 

 brown and ochreous at base and extremity. Fore wing with 

 the basal half ochreous mixed with rufous, bounded by an 

 oblique sinuous rufous line, the subbasal line represented by 

 a small dentate brown mark below costa, the antemedial by a 

 small spot on costa ; an elongate brown mark below the cell 

 near base ; the rest of wing brown suffused and irroratcd 

 with grey and with a broad band of white suffusion beyond 

 the medial line ; postmedial line represented by a brown 

 striga from costa, then by points on the veins, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique, the costa beyond it with 



