494 Sir G. F. ITampson on 



slightly excurved from costa to vein 2, then slightly incurved. 

 Hind wing glossy white, the veins tinged with ochreons. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury [Marshall), 1 ? type. 

 Exp. 50 mm. 



Scalmicaitda ectoleuca, sp. n. 



Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate, the apex simple ; 

 fore wing short and broad, the tornus with a scale-tooth. 



S . Head and thorax deep chocolate- red, the frons, vertex 

 of thorax, and outer edge of patagia with some yellow ; 

 pectus and legs yellow tinged with rufous ; abdomen dark 

 brown, the extremity and ventral surface yellow. Fore 

 wing with the base and costal half to postmedial line yellow, 

 the costal edge chocolate-red except at base, some red 

 irroration before antemedial line on inner area and before 

 postmedial line, the area below the cell deep chocolate-red 

 from the antemedial line to tornus and a red patch beyond 

 the postmedial line above and below vein 5, the rest of 

 terminal area creamy white with some red irroration ; oblique 

 sinuous chocolate-red subbasal and antemedial lines, the 

 latter indistinctly double; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 chocolate-red, the former round, the latter rilled in with 

 red suffusion and angled inwards on median nervure; traces 

 of a dark annulus below the orbicular in submedian inter- 

 space; postmedial line chocolate-red, oblique from costa 

 towards apex to vein 2, then incurved ; a double lunulate 

 black subterminal line. Hind wing dark brown ; the under- 

 side whitish tinged with brown especially on costal area. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar {Sampson), 1 S type. 

 Exp. 32 mm. 



Scalmicauda rufula, sp. n. 



Antennae of male with minute fascicles of cilia ; fore wing 

 narrow. 



$ . Head and thorax rufous mixed with greyish ; palpi 

 chocolate-brown at sides; antennas with the basal joint 

 white at tip; hind tarsi slightly ringed with white; abdomen 

 rufous, the anal tuft very long. Fore wing rufous mixed 

 with greyish, the terminal area somewhat paler ; a whitish 

 point at base of median nervure ; subbasal line fine, double 

 filled in with whitish, slightly incurved ; antemedial line fine, 

 double filled in with whitish, sinuous ; orbicular elliptical, 

 with whitish annulus slightly defined by brown, extending to 

 just below costa, and with fine sinuous double line filled in 

 with whitish from it to inner margin ; reniform elliptical with 



