LEPISTA. BLiVIA. 105 



Hah. E. Africa, Kiliraa'njaro (JkcJcsoh), 1 c? type limhatu, 

 Nairobi (Craicsha;/) 1 J; Br. C. Africa, Zomba (./o7uisfo/i) 1 5; 

 Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro), 1 5 ; Natal, Karkloof, Malveni 

 {Marshall), 1 d, 1 $; Cape Colony. Exp. 26 millim. 



190. Lepista semiochracea. 



ByphkUa semiochracea, Felcl. Eeis. Nov., Lep.pL 106. f. 31 (1874); Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 31;]. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; teguloe orange ; abdomen 

 with orange hiteral fasciae towards extremity and the anal tuft 

 orange. Pore wing dark leaden grey ; an orange costal fascia 

 narrowing to a point before apes. Hind wing leaden grey from 

 middle of inner margin to termen below apex, with sinuous edge, the 

 rest of wing orange. 



Hah. Natal, Karkloof {Marshall), 2 d ; Cape Colony. Exp. 

 22 millim. 



Genus NEOBLAVIA, nov. 



Type, iV. scofeo/a. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, hardly reacbiug beyond the frons ; 

 anteniUB of male with bristles and cilia ; tibi;T3 witli the spurs moderate. Fore 

 wing narrow ; veins 2 and 3 stalked ; 4, 5 absent ; (5 shortly stalked with 7, 

 8,9; 10 free ; 11 given off at riglit angles to cell and becoming coincident 

 with 12; male with large elliptical patch of androconia in cell. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from near angle of cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 absent ; 6, 7 stalked ; 

 8 from middle of cell ; a large patch of androconia in, beyond, and below 

 the cell. 



191. Neoblavia scoteola, n. sp. 



(5'. Black -brown. Fore 

 wing with a few grey scales 

 in the jjatch of androconia in 

 cell. Hind wing with the 

 patch of androconia rather 

 redder brown ; the terminal 

 area somewhat greyish ; the 

 eiiia yellowish. 



Hah. SiJf iiiM, 2600 ft. ( Pil- 

 Fig. 45.— Keobkcvia scoteola, c^ . {. cher), 1 d type. Exp. 18 



millim. 



Genus BLAVIA. 



Type. 



Blavia, Wlk. Journ. Linn. See., Zool. vi. p. 108 (1862) caliginosa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending just as far as frons, the 

 2nd joint fringed with hair below ; frons smoothly scaled ; antennas of male 

 with bristles and cilia ; tibite with the spurs moderate ; abdomen smoothly 

 scaled. Fore wing long and narrow, the costa nearly straight, the termen 

 short ; vein 2 from before angle of cell, oblique ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 absent ; 

 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10 free; 11 given off almost at 

 right angles to subcostal nervureand becoming coincident with 12. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from long before angle of cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 absent ; (J, 7 on 

 a long stalk ; 8 from middle of cell ; male with a large patch of androconia in, 

 beyond, and below the cl-U on upperside. 



