CARCHARODA. CHAM Al ('M'.A. 2 ! 1 



Genus CARCHARODA, nov. 



Type, C. flavirosea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to middle of frons, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; frons with trilobate corneous 

 plate, the middle lobe longest and a corneous plate below it; eyes large, 

 round ; antennae of male laminate and ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales and without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (> from upper angle; 9 and 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with reins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; ."^obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 very shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4577. Carcharoda flavirosea, n. sp. 



c? . Head and tegulae ochreous yellow mixed with, some crimson ; 

 thorax crimson ; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous yellow. Fore 

 wing ochreous yellow ; the basal costal area crimson ; a slight 

 crimson streak above base of vein 1 ; a slight brownish discoidal 

 spot; the veins from end of cell to near termen streaked with 

 crimson ; an oblique crimson shade from costa above end of cell to 



Fig. 7t». — Carcharoda flavirosea. <{. ]. 



vein 6 : postmedial line crimson, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; 

 a slight brownish subterminal line with some crimson before it on 

 costa, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, incurved below vein '.'). 

 Hind wing ochreous yellow. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Mombasa (Cholmley), 1 J type. Exp. 

 18 millim. 



Genus CHAMAECLEA. 



type. 



Chamaeclea, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 76 (1883) pernana: 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, slender and reaching 

 to vertex of head ; frons with truncate conical prominence wilh raised edjjes 

 and vertical ridge across it ; antennas of male minutely ciliated and somewhat 

 laminate; thorax and abdomen without crests; tibiae smoothly scaled. Fore 

 wing with the apex somewhat produced, the termen obliquely curved ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from HI anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; ii, 7 stalked ; 

 •S anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



