new Ajikun Mul/is, 149 



Gavara camptograinma , sp. n. 



^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly tinged with 

 ochreous and mixed with Ijrown ; palpi brownish; fore legs 

 brownish, the tarsi sliiihtiy ringed with white. Fore wing 

 white suffused and irroratcd with brown ; a small blackish 

 spot in mi(klle of cell and rather diffused line from cell to 

 inner margin, slightly defined on outer side by whitish ; a 

 black point at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line white 

 defined on inner side by brown suffusion, excurvcd at vein 6 

 and to ternien at veins .3, 2, then retracted and oblique to 

 inner margin ; a fine dark terminal line from apex to vein J3. 

 Hind wing silky white slij^htly irroratcd with brown; the 

 underside with brown terminal line. 



Hub. Bk. E. Africa, Machakos [Crawshay], 1 ^J type. 

 E3}>. 20 mm. 



Near G. velutina, Wlk. 



ZygaenidaB. 

 Stuphylinochruus melanoleuca, sp. n. 



(J. Head and thorax red-brown; antennae black-brown; 

 abdomen blackish brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing with the base, 

 costal area, and terminal half black-brown, the rest of wing 

 semihyaline white, the outer edge of the white area oblique 

 and bent outwards at median uervure. Hind wing semi- 

 liyaline ochreous white. 



Hub. Uganda, Entebbe {Minchin), 1 (J type. E.cj). 

 34 mm. 



.ffigeriadae. 

 Melittia chalconota, sp, n. 



? . Head glossy grey-brown ; antennae black; palpi white 

 and black ; thorax golden brown ; pectus and fore and mid 

 legs white and black, the hind legs black, with tufts of white 

 and nifous hair ; abdomen black, with yellowish-white 

 segmental lines, the ventral surface white with some fuscous. 

 Fore wing black-brown irroratcd with reddish-yellow scales 

 and with white scales on terminal area; a hyaline streak 

 below the cell, a wedge-shaped patch in the cell bitid at 

 extremity, and a small patch beyond tiieccU formed by three 

 or four short streaks in the interspaces. Hind wing hyaline, 

 the veins and margins narrowly black, the lobe on inner 

 margin black suffused with grey hairs, the cilia brown. 



