new African Heterocera, 545 



Antennae pectinate, with cilia and tine hairs. Legs, mid and 

 hind with one pair of tibial spurs. Neuration : primaries 

 with vein 3 from before the angle, 4 from the angle, 5 from 

 above the angle, 6 from the upper angle, 7 from the end of 

 the areola, 8 into the apex, 9 excessively short (or obsolete), 

 10 long from the areole, 11 from the cell; veins 10, 11, and 

 12 lie almost touching each other. Secondaries with 3 and 4 

 and 6 and 7 on long stalks from the lower and upper angle 

 respectively, 5 from above the angle, 8 practically free from 

 the base. 



Type, Paraxena esg^uamata^ B-B. 



Paraxena esquamata, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax dirty white j abdomen pale grey, with 

 anal tuft golden brown. Both wings white, very thinly 

 scaled. Primaries with base sparsely irrorated with tine black 

 scales. Postmedian line composed of two lines of iiiie black 

 scales slightly waved and oblique. 



Expanse 31 mm. 



Hah. WDalla Tando ; ^•Aww^xy^Ansorge). Also Entebbe, 

 Uganda. 



Type in my collection. 



Paraxena angola, sp. n. 



^ . Head and thorax creamy ; abdomen whitish. Pri- 

 maries yellowish cream-colour, with a trace of a double 

 antemedian line angled in the cell ; postmedian double line 

 broad, strongly angled beyond the cell ; fringes brownish, 

 intersected at the veins ; the lines are composed of fine pale 

 brown scales. Secondaries much paler than primaries. 



Expanse 24 mm. 



Hah. Malange, W. Africa. 



Type in my collection. 



Orygla alhacostata, sp. n. 



(J . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish. Primaries pale 

 brownish, with a patch of daiker basal scales; the costa up 

 to the postmedian line and most of the cell greyish white; 

 postmedian dark line fine, double, and angled inwards on the 

 fold ; a broad whitish oblique dash from the apex to about 

 vein 5 ; an obscure subterminal line of fine internervular 

 dashes. Secondaries very pale brownish grey. 



Expanse 28 mm. 



Hah. Malange, W. Africa. 



Type in my collection. 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol vii. 36 



