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NOCTUIDJE. 



Genus ETHIOTERPIA, nov. 



Type, R. nenvi. 



Proboscis fully di^veloperl ; palpi obliquely upturnerl, liardly reaching midcllo 

 of from, wliicli lias a l:ir£fe CDrneous promiiieace with raised edges ; eyes large, 

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

 liair and scales mixel, the pro- and metatiiorax witli spreading crests; tibiiB 

 moilorately fringe I with hair; abdoineu clothed with woolly hair but without 

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

 evenly curved and not crennlate ; 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 ju^t below middle of 

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

 only. 



4443. Ethioterpia neavi, n. sp. 



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

 bands at raid lie and extremity; frons with lateral black marks; 

 antennte blackish ; tliorax with some black scales mixed and with 

 black bands behind tegulae 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 



Fig. 31. — Ethioterpia neavi, (j". 



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 tlie 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, oblicjuc 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 subtorminal dark shade 

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

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

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

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



Hub. N.E. KuonEsiA, Tanganyika Plateau, Lope Valley {Neave), 

 1 (S type. Ex'p. 30 niillim. 



