new African Moths. 49 L 



ventral surface of abdomen yellow slightly tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing pale yellow slightly irrorated with brown, 

 the costa rufous except at base, the inner area suffused with 

 rufous except at base ; a fine sinuous brown subbasal line 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line fine, brown, excurved 

 below submedian fold ; orbicular and reniform with fine 

 brown annuli, large, elliptical, open above, a similar mark 

 below the cell under the orbicular; postmcdial line fine, 

 brown, oblique from costa to vein 3, then still more oblique ; 

 a crenulate subtermiual brown line, the area beyond it 

 tinged with rufous ; cilia rufous. Hind wing yellowish 

 white, the hair on vein 1 faintly tinged with rufous. 



Hab. Sierka Leone (Bartlett), 1 <$ type. E.vp. 50 mm. 



Scalmicauda argentescens, sp. n. 



Antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the 

 apical half simple ; fore wing narrow, the costa highly arched 

 towards apex. 



c£ . Palpi and frons chocolate-brown, vertex of head white 

 tinged with rufous ; antennae pale rufous ; thorax red-brown 

 tinged, with grey ; abdomen red-brown, paler towards 

 extremity ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 ochreous, the pectus in front and fore legs rufous. Fore 

 wing red-brown irrorated and suffused with silvery grey, the 

 costal area paler towards base ; a faint dark antemedial line 

 from cell to inner margin, angled outwards below the cell, 

 then oblique ; orbicular and reniform faiutly defiued by 

 blackish, closely approximated, the former oblique elliptical 

 with white point on its inner edge, the latter elliptical and 

 slightly constricted at middle with a small white spot be- 

 tween it and orbicular ; postmedial line indistinct, dark, 

 defined on outer side by silvery grey, very oblique and 

 slightly incurved from apex to middle of inner margin; 

 the costa towards apex bright rufous ; a subterminal 

 series of slight dark lunules in the interspaces, some 

 silvery-grey suffusion before and beyond it at tornus ; 

 cilia dark brown. Hind wing pale red-brown ; the under- 

 side ochreous white with a faint rufous tinge. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi {Whiteside), 1 £ type. Exp. 

 52 mm. 



Scalmicauda niveiplaga, sp. n. 



? . Head, tegulse, and a patch on prothorax deep cho- 

 eolate-red, the rest of thorax rufous ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous, the last dorsally 



