CAKCHAEODA. — CHAMAECLEA. 211 



Genus CARCHARODA, nov. 



Type, C. flavirosca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2ud joiiit reaching 

 to middle of irons, the J^rd moderate, porrect ; frons with trilobate corneous 

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

 round : antenna' of male laminate and ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

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

 Fore wing with the apes rounded, the termen evenly curved aud 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 veins '6, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent froui just below middle of discocellulars ; 

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



4577. Carcliaroda flavirosea, u. sp. 



S . Head and tegulse ochreous yellow mixed with some crimson ; 

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

 wiug 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. TC). — Carcharoda Havirosca. J. \. 



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

 a slight brownish subterminal line with some crimson bel'uie ic on 

 costa, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, incurved below vein 3. 

 Hind wiug ochreous yellow. 



Hab. 13k. E. Afkica, Mombasa {Cliolmloj), 1 J type. Exj). 

 18 millim. 



Genus CHAMAECLEA. 



Type. 



Clmmaecka, Grote, Can. Eut. xv. p. 7(3 (1883) ■peruana. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, slender and reaching 

 to vertex of head ; frons with truncate conical prominence with raised edt;es 

 and vertical i-idge across it ; antenniie of male minutely ciliated and somewhat 

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

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

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (i from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

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

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

 8 anastomosing with the cull near base only. 



