218 Sir G. F. Hampsoii on new 



brown, an indistinct diffnsed curved postmedial line, and 

 terminal series of black striie. 



Hub. N. Nigeria, Zungeru {Macfie), 1 S type. Exp. 

 20 mm. 



■^ SAEJlOTMJtlPINJS. 



6494 a. Characoma stidigrapta, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax grey mixed with brovrn ; palpi with 

 the second joint black behind ; antennae blackish ; tegulse 

 blackish towards tips, the patagia with minute black spot at 

 base; lore legs suffused with brown, the tarsi with whitish 

 rings; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated with black ; a 

 curved subbasal black striga from costa and spot in and 

 below the cell; an obliquely curved antemedial series of 

 four small black spots with a slight spot beyond it in sub- 

 median fold ; a small black discoidal spot ; a postmedial 

 series of nine small black spots, excurved from below costa 

 to vein 4, then incurved, a blackish shade beyond it on 

 costal area ; an interrupted maculate black sui)terminal 

 line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series 

 of minute black spots. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 reddish brown. Underside of fore wiug fuscous brown ; 

 liind wing pale brown, the termen darker. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with rounded medial black patch in 

 snbmedian interspace. 



Hub. Gold Coast, Aburi {Armstronrf) , 3 ? type ; Natal, 

 jMaritzburg [Ber ens burg), 1 ? . Eap. 26 mm. 



Larva. Feeds in the pods of Kola and Cacao and forms a 

 cocoon of white silk dorsally angled in tront. 



6568. Giuura leucopasa^ sj). n. 



^ . Head and thorax white irrorated with some brown and 

 black scales ; palpi with the second and third joints blackish 

 towards base; abdomen red-brown with the crests white, the 

 extremity grey; the ventral surface white. Fore wing white 

 irrorated with black to middle of costa and innci- margin 

 beyond middle, the rest of wing grey-Avhitc irrojated with 

 red-brown ; a Ijrown and blackish patch on basal part of 

 costa ; antemedial line fine, black, sinuous, angled inwards 

 ill cell; a sj)ot formed of brown and black scales in middle 

 (jf cell and a d.ffuscd patch of r(,(l-brown scales below middle 

 of cell; medial line (hMilln, the inner line indistinct and 

 interrupted, the outer black, waved, and somewhat oblique, 

 another oblique, waved, black line from just beyond it on 



