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Diomea disticta, sp. n. 



cJ. Headj thorax, and abdomen dark brown. Primaries 

 dark umber-brown, with darker indefinite antemedian and 

 median bands ; beyond the latter the postmedian area is 

 slightly irrorated with greyish, in which are two small, 

 distinct, cream-coloured spots, one beyond the ceil, the other 

 on vein 2 ; a trace of a very interrupted dark band following 

 these; subterminal line dark velvetj'^, strongly waved three 

 or four times, in which is a small dark patch above the 

 centre ; termen with internervular cream dots, edged in- 

 ternally with small dark velvety dentations : secondaries 

 like the primaries, with most of the markings more or less 

 distinctly carried through, but without the two cream- 

 coloured spots. 



Expanse 30 mm. 



Hah. Ituri Forest, Congo Free State. 



In the Powell-Cotton collection. 



Deltoidinje. 

 Sarmatia indent a, sp. n. 



($ . Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish. Primaries with 

 the base pale greyish brown up to the dark dentate ante- 

 median line ; median area rather darker up to the broadish 

 indented white postmedian line, area beyond this whitish 

 grey finely irrorated with whitish, the central portion of it 

 being tinged with deep cream and margined externally by an 

 angled line of the same colour ; a darkish, cloudy, apical 

 costal patch and a less dark, smaller, cloudy, curved, indefi- 

 nite dash around the tornus ; termen darkly dotted : second- 

 aries uniform brownish grey. 



Expanse 32 mm. 



Hub. Makala, May. 



In the Powell-Cotton collection. 



Hypena leucosticta, sp. n. 



^. Head and thorax dull chocolate-brown, abdomen 

 greyish brown. Primaries dull pale chocolate brown, with 

 a fine antemedian line broken inwards at the upper margin 

 of the cell and very oblique outwards from the lower margin 

 of the cell; a darkish dot at the end of the cell; pale post- 

 median line twice indented outwards and waved, a dark patch 

 from thence to the apex edged internally by a short, curved, 

 costal white dash ; two velvety, deep brown, irregular small 



Ann. c& Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. iii. 30 



