490 Sir G. P. Hampson on 



ground-colour on costa towards apex and some chocolate on 

 apical part of costa; subterminal line represented by a 

 double lunule between veins 5, 4 and double oblique waved 

 line from vein 3 to inner margin with some chocolate 

 between it and postmedial line between veins 3 and 2 ; the 

 termen thickly irrorated with chocolate towards tornus. 

 Hind wing pale yellow, the costal edge brownish towards 

 apex ; the underside with the lobe fringed with chocolate- 

 brown hair. 



Hab. Sierra Leone {Dudgeon), 1 ? type. Exp. 50 mm. 



Scalmicauda heterogyna, sp. n. 



Antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the 

 apical half simple ; fore wing narrow. 



<$ . Head and tegulee rufous deepening to chocolate be- 

 hind, the vertex of head yellowish ; the pointed crest behind 

 the tegulse very long ; thorax and abdomen ochreous white, 

 the pectus rufous in front. Fore wing pale fuscous brown, 

 the inner area pale brownish grey, extending beyond the 

 postmedial line to vein 3 ; traces of a slight pale subbasal 

 line from costa to vein 1 ; a slight obliquely curved ante- 

 medial brown line defined on outer side by whitish ; orbicular 

 and reniform with whitish annuli slightly defined by brown, 

 elliptical, open above, the former rather oblique and with a 

 round spot defined by brown below it in submedian inter- 

 space ; postmedial line double, rufous filled in with whitish 

 and defined by whitish on outer side, oblique and straight 

 from costa just before apex to middle of inner margin; a 

 sinuous brown subterminal line angled outwards at veins 4, 

 3, 2, and inwards at vein 1 ; cilia brown. Hind wing white, 

 the inner area tinged with brown except towards base. 



? . Abdomen rufous ; fore wing rufous, the inner half 

 tinged with whitish ; hind Aving pale rufous. 



Hub. Delagoa Bay, 1 $ type ; Natal, Pinetown 

 {Boivker), 1 ? , Durban {Clarke), 1 ? . Exp., $ 34, ? 48- 

 52 mm. 



Allied to S. spissicornis, Mab., from Madagascar. 



Scalmicauda flavipennis, sp. n. 



Antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the 

 apical half simple ; fore wing narrow. 



$ . Head, tegulae, and a patch on prothorax bright rufous ; 

 palpi yellow tinged with rufous ; thorax grey-brown, no 

 crest behind tegulse ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, 

 the anal tuft long and tinged with rufous ; pectus, legs, and 



