334 Sir G. F. Hampson on new 



^ . Dark brown ; palpi yellowish at base ; fore tibiae 

 yellowish with black band, the tarsi yellowish ; abdomen 

 with the ventral surface yellowish to beyond middle, the 

 genital tuft yellowish. Fore wing with somewhat triangular 

 orange discoidal patch extending from below the costato sub- 

 median fold, with a dark bar on discocellulars. Hiud wiug 

 with small orange spot at lower angle of cell. 



Hah. S. Nigeria^ Lagos {H. Strachan)^ 1 ^ type. Exp. 

 28 mm. 



(8 c) Dichocrocis nigricinctalis, sp. n. 



(^ . Oi'ange ; fore tibi?e black at extremity ; mid tibiae 

 black at base ; abdomen with dorsal black band on penulti- 

 mate segment, the two segments before it with lateral bars. 

 Fore wing with oblique subbasal black bar from costa; 

 a strong curved antemedial black line ; a discoidal striga ; a 

 strong black postraedial line, straight from costa to vein 2 

 where it is somewhat retracted and with black irroration 

 before it between veins 6 and 2. Hind wing with black 

 postmedial line, straight and outwardly difiused from costa 

 to vein 2 where it is angled inwards, then again excurved. 



Hab. Trobriand Is., Kiriwini [Meek), 1 J tvpe. Exp. 

 20 mm. 



(12 a) Dichocrocis usticinctalis, sp. n. 



S . Orange-yellow ; palpi black at tips ; tegulae black at 

 inner side and at tips ; patagia extending to well beyond 

 metathoraXj red-brown at tips ; fore tibiae with black spot at 

 extremity; metathorax with black spot ; abdomen with pair 

 of dorsal black spots on first segment, a band on second, 

 spot on third, and patches on fourth and tifth, sublateral 

 series of black points and a ventral line at base of anal 

 segment. Fore wing with black spot at base ; an ante- 

 medial bar from costa to median nervure bent inwards to 

 costa and a red-brown band below it from submediaxi fold 

 to inner margin followed by a black bar ; a black point in 

 middle of cell and small discoidal lunule : postmedial line 

 black, obsolescent except at costa and towards inner margin, 

 straight from costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved, 

 followed by a broad band of red-brown suti'usion except 

 towards costa ; the costal edge slightly tinged Avith fuscous 

 towards apex. Hind wing with straight diffused blackish 

 postmedial line from vein 6 to near inner margin followed 

 by a broad band of red-brown suffusion. 



Hab. Mashonalanh, Umtali {Marshall), 1 J typc- Hxp. 

 24 mm. 



