260 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker on 



an obscure scalloped oblique postmeclian pale pinkish line 

 to the costa near the apex, followed by a slightly excurved, 

 pale pinkish rusty irregular subtenninal stripe, from which 

 to the termen the area is greyish ; fringes dark, intercepted 

 somewhat palely at the veins; area below vein 2 darker 

 purplish : secondaries purplish brownish grey, with the basal 

 and median areas below vein 6 whitish. 



? . Just like the male. 



Expanse, £ 70, ? 85 mm. 



Ilab. Fort Jameson, N.E. Rhodesia. 



Types in my collection. 



Near G. sophax, Druce. 



Gonometa pallens, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax ochreous grey ; abdomen ochreous 

 cream-colour. Primary ochreous grey, with a broad waved 

 oblique median band and a broader oblique postmedian band, 

 definite on its interior edge, indefinite and somewhat scalloped 

 on its external edge, very broad at the tornal area, narrower 

 above vein 5 ; these two bands are nearly the same colour as 

 the wings, but slightly paler and smoother in texture, the 

 other part of the wing having a roughish surface : secondaries 

 yellowish straw-colour. 



Expanse 96 mm. 



Hab. Fort Jameson, N.E. Rhodesia. 



Type in my collection. 



Lymantridae. 



Rhodesana, gen. nov. 



Palpi in male very heavily scaled, smoothly above, but 

 thickly and coarsely below, so as to be somewhat brush-like, 

 and so thick as to almost hide the minute end segment, also 

 thickly scaled ; the scaling in the female is less heavy and 

 the second segment proportionately rather longer than in the 

 male. Antennas with long pectinations, with cilia, and having 

 terminal spines ; in the female the pectinations are shorter, 

 antennal socket with a tuft of longish dense hairs below ; 

 head roughly scaled ; thorax with a thick tuft on the meso- 

 and on the metathorax; abdomen prominently tufted on the 

 three proximal segments ; legs in male very densely hairy, 

 less dense in female. Neuration : primaries with vein 2 

 from just beyond the middle of the cell, 3 before the lower 

 angle, -A from the lower angle, 5 from above the angle, 6 from 

 the upper angle; 7, 8, 9, and 10 stalked, 9 given off from 10 



