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Petrodava olivala, Warren, Nov. Zool. iv. p. 253, (^ . 



Pelrodava latimarginuta, Warren, Nov. Zool. ix. p. 529, ? (1902). 



"> Petrodava marginata, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1901', p. 503. 



Seychelles. — Two specimens : one male from St. Anne Island, 26 October, 1905 ; 

 one female from Mahe without exact data {de Gaye). 



This moth seems to be extremely variable even as amongst a short series from the 

 same locality, and I am quite unable to perceive any constaat difference between any of 

 the above-quoted forms which have been named as distinct, often on the strength of 

 single specimens only. 



Distribution. — Abyssinia ; Ruwenzori ; Upper Congo ; Nyasaland ; Mashonaland ; 

 Beira ; Br. E. Africa ; Madagascar ; Seychelles (Mahe, St. Anne). 



65. lodis stibolepida, Butl. 



Comibana stibolepida, Butl., Cist. Ent. ii. p. 394 (1879). 

 Jodis stibolepida, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1904, p. 547. 



Parquhar I. — A single specimen. 



Distribution. — Madagascar; Farquhar I. ; Cape Colony. 



66. Gymnoscelis sp. 



Desroches. — One female, taken at west end of island on 15 October, 1905, flying 

 aroTind Morinda citrifolia. 



This is probably a new species, but I will not describe it as such from a single female 

 specimen not in the best of condition. 



67. Chloroclystis metallicata, sp. n. (Plate 17. fig. 2.) 



c? . Exp. 11 mm. Palpi dark grey, lighter beneath, depressed, thickly scaled. 

 Antennae dark fuscous, annulated with lighter between segments. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen light fuscous, irrorated with darker ; abdomen with a pronounced dorsal ridge. 

 Pectus, legs, and venter greyish. 



Eore wing light fuscous. Base indistinctly suffused with fuscous ; costal margin dark 

 fuscous from base to | ; a conspicuous blackish-fuscous antemedian sinuous striga trans- 

 versely across wing, commencing on costa as a square spot which is continued from its 

 inner corner as a narrow elbowed bar increasing in breadth to inner margin ; this ante- 

 median bar is sharply indicated exteriorly against the paler ground-colour; a narrow 

 sinuous blackish-fuscous striga from costa to dorsum at f ; the area between these two 

 strigse is occupied by two narrow ill-defined dark-fuscous lines running sinuously across 

 the wing ; termen broadly edged with dark fuscous ; a dark fuscous dot on dorsum at \. 

 Cilia fuscous irrorated with darker. 



Hind wing light fuscous. A broad antemedian transverse fuscous band, basally 

 indistinct, outM'ardly sharply defined, not reaching costa ; a broad postmedian band of 

 fuscous scales, externally sharply margined with blackisl), not reaching costa ; termen 

 broadly edged with dark fuscous. Cilia fuscous irrorated with darker. 



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