316 Mr. L. B. Prout on new 



the contained white spots small, the anterior one not 

 reaching SC 5 or R 3 , the second very small and the third 

 a minute dot ; posterior margin slightly folded and narrowly 

 blackish. 



Hind wing slightly narrower than in the allies ; the black 

 cell-spot large ; border not broad, the white spots small or 

 very small, anteriorly obsolescent. Underside similar, but 

 with the white spots of hind wing slightly better developed. 



Lake Bangweolo, N. Rhodesia, Sept. 1917 (7*. A. Barns), 

 2<?<?. 



Superficially nearest to re duct a, Prout (Nov. Zool. xxii. 

 p. 369), but with the white spots still further reduced ; very 

 distinct in shape, robuster build, coloration, large cell-spot 

 of hind wing, &c. 



6. Craspedosis niveosignata latesignata, siibsp. n. 



$ . — Distinguished from name-typical niveosignata, Warr. 

 (Nov. Zool. vi. p. 47, Ron Island), by having the white 

 patches broader (on fore wing at R 3 4 mm., on hind wing 

 from proximal edge to distal edge at R 3 8 mm.), sometimes 

 in addition blurred white scaling behind middle of cell of 

 fore wing. Abdomen with the black belts dorsally inter- 

 rupted or obsolete. 



Mysol, foot-hills, 100-500 ft., Oct.-Nov. 1916, wet 

 season (TV. J. C. Frost), 3 $ S ■ 



Family Hypsidse. 



7. Aganais diastropha, sp. n. 



$ . — 55 mm. 



Head orange ; palpus with a black spot at end of first 

 and of second joint, third joint wholly black ; antenna 

 black. Thorax and abdomen orange, paler beneath ; abdo- 

 men with black spots dorsally and laterally. 



Fore tving with termen curved, extremely oblique, hind 

 margin slightly excavated close to tornus, then protuberant, 

 the sex-patch strongly developed ; fawn-colour, proximally 

 mixed with orange, without sharp demarcation ; the cell- 

 spot of underside showing through. Underside orange, 

 rather paler than above, the apical region of fore wing 

 (from costa just before cell-spot to tornus) and the sex- 

 patch and a few apical scales of hind wing fawn-colour with 



