048 On neio Species of Noctuida?. 



excurvccl from vein 5 to 2, where it is bent inwards, tlion 

 oblique to tornus ; a series of minute fuscous spots just before 

 termen, on which there is a series of black striae. Hind win^ 

 brown with a slight reddish tinge ; cilia whitish ; the under- 

 side whitish, with traces of a curved postmedial line and broad 

 fuscous terminal band. 



Hab. SiEKRA Leone, Pt. Lokko {Penmj), 1 (J type. 

 JlJj'p. 28 mm. 



Blenina leucotis, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax white, slightly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 palpi blackish above ; fore tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 Avhite. Fore wing glistening white, rather sparsely irrorated 

 with fuscous ; a minute black streak in base of cell ; sub- 

 basal line angled outwards in cell, then oblique to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, 

 strongly waved ; medial area clouded with black towards 

 costa and from cell to inner margin and with a diffused black 

 mark with two points beyond it in submedian interspace ; 

 postmedial line angled inwards below costa, oblique to vein 

 G, then indistinct and minutely dentate to vein 3, where it is 

 bent inwards, then waved to inner margin, a blackish shade 

 beyond it on costal area followed by two small spots ; a 

 diffused fuscous subterminal line angled inwards in discal 

 and submedian folds and excurved at middle ; termen clouded 

 Avith fuscous, a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 white, the terminal area tinged with fuscous from apex to 

 vein 2. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Uganda Ry., mile 478 [Betton), 

 1 ? type. E,rp. 30 mm. 



Blenina brunne&cens, sp. n. 



^ . Head and thorax white, tinged with pale red-brown ; 

 fore tarsi blackish at extremity ; abdomen brownish white. 

 Fore wing white, suffused with pale red-brown ; a slight 

 blackish streak on base of median nervure; an obliquely 

 curved antemedial series of four black points from below 

 costa to median nervure and point on vein 1, an oblique 

 striga beyond them across base of vein 2 ; tMO black dis- 

 coidal points; a postmedial series of minute streak-like 

 points, obliquely excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; 

 traces of a subterminal series of small brown spots ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing white with a 

 slight reddish-brown tinge. 



Hah. Br. C. Africa, Nyasa [de Jersey), 1 c? type. 

 Exp. 22 mm. 



