new African Moths. 4f>3 



Chadisra persimilis, sp. n. 



Antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



(J . Head and thorax pale yellow slightly mixed with 

 brown, especially on tegulae ; palpi black except at base ; 

 antennas brown with a blackish patch between them; fore 

 femora and tibiae streaked with black on inner side, the tibiae 

 with oblique streaks, the tarsi ringed with brown ; abdomen 

 pale yellow dorsally suffused with brown, the basal crest with 

 some black mixed. Fore wing with the basal half pile 

 yellow slightly irrorated and in parts clouded with brown, 

 extending on costa to middle and on inner area to subter- 

 minal line, the rest of wing brown broadly suffused with 

 grey-white on costal area; traces of a black streak below 

 base of cell, with faint annulate mark of brown and black 

 scales below it at middle; some slight brown suffusion below 

 costa near base and before middle ; minute anternedial black 

 streaks below costa and in cell ; medial line blackish defined 

 on inner side by brown suffusion, oblique and sinuous from 

 costa to below angle of cell, then inwardly oblique and 

 angled outwards at vein 1 ; postmedial line black, slightly 

 denned on outer side by whitish towards costa, dentate, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 6 and oblique below 

 vein 3, where it is joined by a faint waved line from well 

 before it ; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish denned 

 on inner side by brown, waved, incurved at discal fold and 

 in subrnedian fold to near postmedial line ; a series of slight 

 dark striae just before termen ; cilia chequered with whitish 

 at tips. Hind wing white, the hair on inner area tinged with 

 ochreous ; a brown patch on termen and cilia from vein 2 to 

 below vein 1, with a white aud blackish bar oil its inner 

 edge; cilia pale rufous, white at tips; the underside with 

 the costal area tinged with yellow and slightly irrorated with 

 rufous. 



Hab. Natal, Durban {Leigh), 1 <$ type. Exp. 34 mm. 



Almost identical in appearauce with C. semiflava. 



Somera poliostrota, sp. n. 



Palpi with the third joint long and porrect. 



c? . Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with some 

 grey ; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen red-brown, the ventral 

 surface whitish. Fore wing red-brown mixed with grey, 

 glossy, the veins darker brown ; traces of a waved dark 

 anternedial line; postmedial line indistinct, dark, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique and somewhat dentate ; a 



