new African Moths. All 



Fore wing creamy white, the costa tinged with fulvous ; a 

 dark brown streak defined below by fulvous along median 

 nervure and above vein 4 from base to termen ; the inner 

 margin grey-brown and rufous except at base ; the area from 

 origin of vein 2 below the dark streak to tornus suffused 

 with grey and irrorated with a few black scales; an obliquely 

 downcurved dark brown streak from termen below apex to 

 vein 6, defined below by rufous and with a triangular patch of 

 grey suffusion irrorated with black below it extending to the 

 whitish streak which defines the dark medial streak above ; 

 cilia grey mixed with some black. Hind wing white; the 

 cilia chequered faintly with brown. 



Hab. Transvaal, White R. {Cooke), 1 <$ type. Exp. 

 42 mm. 



Allied to Z. gallans, Karsch. 



Zana ruficosta, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax pale yellow with fuscous streaks 

 above patagia ; palpi rufous ; fore femora and tibiae mostly 

 brown, the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen fulvous 

 orange, the extremity and ventral surface yellowish white ; 

 subdorsal black spots on third, fourth, and fifth segments and 

 a lateral series. Fore wing yellow ; the terminal half of 

 costal area rufous, with a wedge-shaped black-brown patch 

 below it from before end of cell to termen below apex, its 

 lower edge indented by a small spot of the ground-colour at 

 upper angle of cell and dentate just before termen below 

 vein 6 ; a dark brown fascia along median nervure and below 

 vein 4 from base to termen, its lower edge with four slight 

 dentations from before vein 2 to vein 3 ; a rather diffused 

 brown fascia on inner margin except at base ; the cilia with 

 a series of blackish points. Hind wing silky white; the 

 underside with the costal area tinged with orange-yellow. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Ashanti {Dudgeon), 1 ? type. Exp. 

 34 mm. 



Allied to Z. aurofodince, Dist. 



Genus Amphiphalera, nov. 



Type A. leuconephra. 



Proboscis fully developed v ; palpi short, porrect; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas simple and laminate 

 in both sexes ; thorax clothed with hair only and without 

 crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the hind tibiae 

 with two pairs of spurs ; abdomen smoothly scaled and with- 

 out crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow 7 , the apex 



