new African Moths. 495 



whitish annulus and whitish line at middle, a blackish point 

 at its lower inner extremity and a small black spot before it 

 below the cell ; medial line fine, double filled in with whitish, 

 from below the costa well beyond the cell, oblique, slightly 

 waved between veins 3 and 1 ; two similar postmedial lines ; 

 a subterminal series of oblique whitish striae defined on outer 

 side by black in the interspaces, placed in echelon; a fine 

 dark terminal line. Hind wing rufous, the cilia white at 

 tips; the underside whitish suffused with rufous, traces of a 

 whitish postmedial band, rufous subterminal line, and series 

 of rufous striae before termen. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar (Crompton), 1 ^ type. 

 Exp. 38 mm. 



Ichthyura lentisignata, sp. n. 



<^ . Head, dorsum of tegulse, and a patch on prothorax 

 black-brown, the rest of thorax and abdomen reddish brown 

 mixed with greyish; antennae grey-brown; pectus black- 

 brown in front. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with red- 

 brown, especially on apical area, and thickly irrorated with 

 black ; a black point in cell near base; two slight oblique 

 antemedial lines, the first defined on outer side by whitish 

 and bent outwards at median nervure, the second defined on 

 inner side by whitish and slightly excurved below costa ; a 

 slight ochreous discoidal striga with faint dark shade beyond 

 it and oblique ochreous line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin with dark shade on its outer edge; a slight pale 

 oblique postmedial line from costa to just below vein 2, 

 somewhat excurved at vein 6 and incurved at discal fold, an 

 oblique dark shade from it at discal fold to termen at vein 3 ; 

 a subterminal series of slight dark points, somewhat excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to termen 

 above tornus ; a terminal series of slight black striae. Hind 

 wing white slightly irrorated with red-brown, the veins and 

 inner area tinged with red- brown ; a slight red- brown ter- 

 minal line ; the underside white with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Ltiyh), 1 $ type. Exp. 32 mm. 



Allied to S. restitura, Wlk., from India. 



Ichthyura albifasclata, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax white with a few dark hairs, the 

 dorsum of thorax tinged with rufous ; abdomen white slightly 

 tinged with brown ; palpi pale rufous. Fore wing pale 

 rufous ; a wedge-shaped white fascia above and below median 

 nervure from near base to end of cell towards which it 



