472 ARCXIADJ,. 



Genus CARCINARCTIA, iiov. 



Type, C. mctamelmna. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect to just beyond the frons ; antennae of male 

 bipectinate with rather long branches ; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with 

 long woolly hair; fore tibiaj sliort with curved claw at extremity on inner side 

 and short claw on outer, mid and hind tibia? with the spurs moderate. Fore 

 wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle; 6 from 

 tipper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to Jbrm the areole ; II free. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 shortly 

 stalked ; 8 from before middle of cell. 



2070. Carcinarctia metamelsena, n. sp. 



c? . Head and thorax deep red-brown ; palpi black ; femora 

 scarlet above, the tibiae and tarsi tinged with fuscous ; abdomen 

 orange, tinged with scarlet towards base, subdorsal series of black 



Fig. 206. — Carcinarctia metamelcBna, cJ. \. 



bands and lateral series of spots. Pore wing red-brown irrorated 

 with black ; obscure antemedial and medial black lines angled on 

 median nervure ; a diffused discoidal luniilc ; a postmedial line 

 excurved between veins 5 and 3, and followed by a curved line with 

 black spots on it above veins 5 and 1. Hind wing black ; the base 

 pale ; the inner area with some scarlet hair ; short scarlet streaks 

 on veins 4-1 ; the terminal orange-red baitd with rather irregular 

 inner edge. Underside of fore wing with the disk suffused with 

 crimson. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Lari (Betton), 1 d type, Kikuyu, Nairobi 

 (CraivsJiay), 1 S - Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus CYMBALOPHORA. 



Type. 



Tympa7wphora, Laboulb. Ann. Soc. Ent.Fr. (4) iv. p. 704 (1864), 



wcc White, Orth. (1841) pudica. 



Cymbalophora, Ramb. Cat. Lep. And. ii. p. 231 (1866) pudica. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, extending as far as the large frontal 

 tuft; head and tliorax clothed with woolly hair ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; fore 

 tibiae with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer ; abdomen 

 smoothly scaled at base. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 6 

 from angle; (i from below upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8 from before middle of cell. 



