new African Moths. 493 



of dark suffusion on costal area near base and indistinct 

 diffused sinuous postmedial line. 

 ? . Hind wing fuscous brown. 



Hab. Natal, Durban {Leigh), 1 $ , 1 ? type. Exp., <$ 32, 

 ? 38 mm. 



Larva. Brown, the warts minute, blackish ; head blackish ; 

 a pair of anal processes. 



Scalmicauda xanthogyna, sp. n. 



Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate, the apex simple, 

 of female minutely serrate ; fore wing rather short and 

 broad. 



<$ . Head and thorax deep chocolate-red, the vertex of 

 head more yellow; palpi jellow in front ; antenna rufous; 

 pectus and legs ochreous tinged with rufous ; abdomen 

 reddish brown witli pale segmental bauds, the ventral surface 

 yellow. Fore wing deep chocolate-red; traces of an oblique 

 sinuous antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform faintly 

 denned by brown, the former small, round, the latter elliptical 

 with its outer edge indented, a small aunulus defined by 

 brown below the orbicular in submedian interspace ; a 

 blackish point above base of vein 6 ; postmedial line indis- 

 tinct, dark, from costa towards apex, excurved below costa, 

 then oblique and crenulate to middle of inner margin, a 

 slight grey-brown patch beyond it on costa ; a subterminal 

 series of slight black lunules in the interspaces, the lunule 

 below vein 3 with another lunule before it, and two pairs of 

 points below vein 2 ; slight dark marks on termen below 

 veins 4 and 3. Hind wing pale red-brown, whitish at base ; 

 the cilia whitish at tips ; the underside whitish tinged with 

 rufous. 



? . Head and tegulse yellow ; thorax yellowish brown ; 

 abdomen yellow tinged with red-brown ; fore wing king's 

 yellow, the inner half except at base suffused with red-brown, 

 all the markings rather more diffused. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Sapele (Sampson), 1 c?,l $ type. JExp.j 

 £ 42, ? 44 mm. 



Scalmicauda albicostata, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax deep maroon- red ; pectus and abdo- 

 men whitish tinged with rufous, the pectus in front, legs, 

 and hair at base of dorsum of abdomen red. Fore wing deep 

 maroon-red, the costal edge pure white ; a faint whitish 

 antemedial line, oblique from costa to vein 1, then bent in- 

 wards to inner margin ; postmedial line whitish, very oblique, 



