162 On new Lepidoptera from Nyasaland. 



rust reticulation into two spots ; the short transverse bar 

 towards external angle continued by a series of decreasing 

 spots almost to apex, and somewhat resembling a reversed 

 cornucopia with eight divisions ; secondaries uniformly 

 ochreous, the grey suffusion of T. cetitis being absent. 



Expanse of wings 33-34 millim. 



Two males, Luvira Eiver, Nyasa to Tanganyika plateau, 

 December 14th, 1895. 



HihriUles Craxoshayi, sp. n. 



? . Allied to H. norax of Druce {Anengya spiritalis of 

 Karsch"^), but much smaller; semitransparent rosy tawny, 

 •with slender black veins : primaries with a short black bar 

 across the end of the cell ; external border dark grey, dentate- 

 sinuate internally, broad at apex, narrow at external angle ; 

 fringe grey, becoming w^hitish tawny towards external angle : 

 secondaries with a black discocellular dash ; external border 

 rather broadly blackish, enclosing six spots of the ground- 

 colour ; fringe of outer border grey : head ochreous, antennae 

 black ; thorax blackish, spotted with white and buff; abdo- 

 men tawny at base, otherwise blackish, with dorsal and lateral 

 spots grading from buff to cream-colour j anal tuft ochreous. 

 Wings below more glossy than above, but similar ; face 

 ochreous ; pectus deep brown ; legs with a itw ochreous 

 hairs ; venter brown, bounded by an ochreous stripe and a 

 row of cream-coloured spots. 



Expanse of wings 61 millim. 



Mwini-uruma's town, Nyika to Tanganyika plateau, De- 

 cember 17th, 1895. 



H^MATORITHRA, gen. nov. 



Near to Omiza, Walk. ; differs in its much broader antennse, 

 in the straight discocellulars of the primaries, and the smaller 

 secondaries, with the subcostal branches emitted together 

 from the same point. 



Type H. ruhrifasciata. 



Hcematorithra ruhrifasciata, sp. n. 



Primaries sordid sericeous creamy white, with stramineous 

 costa and outer-marginal fringe ; a purplish-black transverse 

 dash from costa at basal two sevenths, continued across the 



♦ Described in a paper on African Lepidoptera, containing many new 

 names for old species (Ent. Nachr. 1895, p. 374, pi. iv. fig. 7). 



