THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 30. JUNE 1910. 



LXVI. — Descriptions of new African Moths. 

 By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Continued from p. 464.] 



Stauropus atriguttata, sp. n. 



Antennae of female bipectinate with rather long branches 

 to near apex, which is simple. 



? . Head ochreous white ; palpi with the second joint 

 above and sides of frons black-brown ; antennae rufous ; 

 thorax pale yellow-green mixed with brown ; pectus and legs 

 ochreous white, the pectus in front and fore tibiae on inner 

 side brown ; abdomen fuscous, the ventral surface ochreous 

 white tinged with brown. Fore wing pale ochreous suffused 

 with yellow-green and slightly irrorated with reddish brown, 

 some brown at base of inner margin ; small subbasal black 

 spots below costa and cell, the former with a brown spot 

 before it ; a double incurved slightly waved brown ante- 

 medial line, the inner line with black spot at costa, a black 

 spot on an ochreous patch just beyond it below the cell; a 

 black spot w r ith an ochreous patch below it on subcostal 

 nervure towards end of cell ; a slight ochreous discoidal 

 bar, with black spot at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line 

 red-brown defined on outer side by ochreous, double between 

 veins 6 and 4, oblique from costa to vein 6, then waved, 

 oblique below r vein 3 ; the postmedial area with a series of 



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