-J 20 NOCTUID.E. 



Hind wing greyish suffused with yellow-brown, the cilia rather 

 paler ; the underside greyish tinged and irrorated with brown. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar (Crom.pton), 1 6 type; Congo 

 State, Kambove Distr. (Neave), 1 $ ; Transvaal (Paid), 1 5 . 

 Exp. 24 raillira. 



4103. Ethiopica hesperonota, n. sp. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 7.) 



2 . Head and thorax deep purple, the scales slightly tipped with 

 grey-white ; palpi black-brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen greyish 

 brown, the tarsi with slight whitish rings. Fore wing deep purple 

 slightly irrorated with grey; subbasal line slight, greyish, waved, 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line slight, grey, interrupted, 

 waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniforra defined 

 by white points, small, the former rather oblique, elliptical : post- 

 medial line indistinct, dark with series of grey points on it and 

 more prominent spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate and produced to slight grey points on the veins, oblique 

 below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; a slight waved 

 interrupted whitish subterminal line ; a series of white points just 

 before termen ; cilia fuscous brown. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with fuscous ; a slight dark terminal line, the cilia rather paler at 

 base : the underside white, the costal area and terminal area to 

 subraedian fold broadly suffused and irrorated with purple-brown. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Taveta (Rogers), 1 5 type. Exp. 26 

 millim. 



4104. Ethiopica micra. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 8.) 

 Caradrina micra, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 300 (1902). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous brown mixed with some 

 fuscous ; the palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 more strongly tinged with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous brown 

 irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented b}' a slight dark 

 striga from costa ; antemedial line blackish, waved, angled inwards 

 on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; a black discoidal 

 point, usually with a white point on its outer edge ; posfmedial line 

 blackish, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, angled inwards 

 in discal fold and oblique below vein 4 ; some dark points on costa 

 towards apex ; subterminal line represented by a faint dark shade 

 on its inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, and bent 

 outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of black stria?. Hind wing 

 pure white ; the underside with the costal area suffused with 

 ochreous brown. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with fuscous. 



Hab. Abyssinia, Zegi Tsana (Der/en), 1 <3 : Br. E. Africa, 

 Nairowa (Betton), 1 d ; Xatal, Durban (BowTccr, Leigh), 5 <$ , 

 '3 2 type. Exp. 20-26 millim. 



