THE AXXALS 



AND 



MAG.VZIXE OF NATURVL IIISTORY. 



[EIPtHTII SF.RIES.] 



No. 32. AUGUST 1010. 



XV. — Descriptions of new African Moths. 

 By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Concluded from p. 141.] 



Somara albicosta, sp. n. 



cJ . Head deep chocolate-brown, with a whitisli patch on 

 vertex ; thorax chestnut-brown, the shouklers white ; abdo- 

 men yellow suffused with rufous ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen chocolate-brown. Fore wing chestnut- 

 brown to postmedial line, the costal area pure white to 

 beyond middle, diffused into cell and leaving the costal edge 

 brown, the terminal area whitish suffused and irrorated with 

 rufous ; the postmedial line defining the dark area, slightly 

 incurved below vein 6. Hind wing yellow suffused with 

 rufous, especially on the costal area, veins, and cilia. 



? . Fore wing with the postmedial line straight and oblique. 



Ab, 1. Thorax and fore wing much brighter rufous. — Kili- 

 ma'njaro. 



Hub. Br. E. Africa, Kilima'njaro {Hannington) , 1 ^^ • 

 Mashoxaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 1 $ ; Natal, Durbau 

 (Qvrkett, Leigh), 4 c? , 1 ? type. Krp. 46 mm. 



Allied to S. canescens, Wlk., which has no yellow on the 

 hind wings. 



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