10 Sir G. F. Ilampson on new 



and some yellowish on costa beyond middle. Hind -wing 

 with the basal half pale yellow, the terminal half pale 

 brownish. Underside of fore wing with slight fuscous 

 discoidal spot and diffused brownish postmedial band, bent 

 inwards below vein 2 ; hind wing ^yith slight black subbasal 

 spot in upper part of cell and diffused brownish postmedial 

 band. 



Hab. W. Africa, Cameroons [Sjostedt), 1 ,$ type. Exji. 

 42 mm. 



(50 d) Sylepta acridentuUs , sp. n. 



^ . Yellow ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 whitish ; fore tibia banded Avith brown, mid tibise streaked 

 with brown. Fore wing with curved, somewhat waved and 

 diffused antemedial line from subcostal nervure to inner 

 margin ; a dark point in middle of cell and discoidal lunule; 

 postmedial line strongly and rather irregularly dentate, 

 oblique, bent outwards between veins 5 and 2 and with 

 diftused dentate band across its sinus. Hind wing with 

 oblique diffused somewhat dentate band from costa beyond 

 middle to tornus, towards which it narrows and with dentate 

 line beyond it between veins 5 and 2 ; the apical part of 

 costal area suffused with brown. 



Hab. S.W. New Guinea, Kapaur {Dohertij), 1 J type, 

 Exp. 32 mm. 



(51 c) Sylepta retractalis, sp. n. 



^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale yellow, the neck with 

 fulvous ring,tlie abdomen with faint fulvous-yellow segmental 

 bands ; palpi white at base, fulvous at tips ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen white, the fore tibise yellowish. 

 Fore wing pale yellow, the costa and veins tinged with 

 fulvous ; antemedial line fuscous, oblique ; a fuscous dis- 

 coidal bar; postmedial line fuscous, slightly bent outwards 

 between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to lower angle of 

 cell, and oblique to inner margin near antemedial line ; a 

 fuscous terminal line and a fine line through the cilia which 

 are whitish at tips. Hiud wing pale yellow ; a fuscous 

 discoidal spot ; postmedial line fuscous, bent outwards 

 between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to lower angle of 

 cell and oblique to above tornus ; a fuscous terminal line 

 and a line through the cilia Avhich are whitish at tips. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi [Whiteside), 2 $ type. Exp. 

 21 mm. 



