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N0CTUID.3E. 



Genus ETHIOTERPIA, nov. 



Type, E. neavi. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, hardly reaching middle 

 of frou3, which hag a large corneous prominence with raised edges ; eyes large, 

 round; antennae of male laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed with 

 hair and scales mixed, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibia; 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen clothed with woolly hair but without 

 crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from above 

 angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 strongly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



4443. Ethioterpia neavi, n. sp. 



3 . Head and thorax creamy white ; palpi black with white 

 hands at middle and extremity ; frons with lateral black marks ; 

 antennae blackish ; thorax with some black scales mixed and with 

 black bands behind tegula? and on metathorax ; tibiae and tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen blackish, the extremity and ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing creamy white ; some black marks at base of 



inner area ; a subbasal black striga from costa ; antemedial line 

 blackish, obsolescent towards costa, oblique to submedian fold 

 where there is a slight streak representing the claviform, then 

 slightly sinuous ; an oblique sinuous medial black line, strongly 

 excurved below the cell and with a black striga beyond it from 

 costa ; the outer half of medial area almost entirely suffused with 

 fuscous ; reniform a largo irregular white mark defined by black 

 expanding into a large lobe below costa and into a small lobe 

 on inner side at lower extremity; postmedial line black, slightly 

 sinuous, oblique from costa to discal fold, then incurved, the costa 

 beyond it with a conical black patch with two white points on it, 

 and slight black marks beyond the postmedial line at middle, sub- 

 median fold, and inner margin ; a faint subterminal dark shade 

 forming brownish patches at and below middle ; a fine waved black 

 line on middle of termen ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white with a faint subterminal shade ; the under- 

 side with a few black scales on costal area towards apex. 



Hab. N.E. Rhodesia, Tanganyika Plateau, Lope Yallej' (Neave), 

 1 S type. Eocjp. 30 millim. 



