548 Mr. G. T. Belliune-Baker on ■ 



Lcelia flava, sp. n. ■ 



% . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow, both pale chrome- 

 yellow. Primaries rougher in texture than secondaries, 

 owing to the irroration of very fine yellow scales on a paler 

 ground, with no other markings at all. Secondaries some- 

 what paler than the primaries. 



Expanse 62 mm. 



Hab. Oni (Lagos) ; March. 



Type in the Hope Museum, Oxford. 



Next L. discolepia, Hrapsn. 



Dasychira strigidentata, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax pale tawny brown ; abdomen p ile 

 ochreous brown. Primaries pale greyish brown, with an 

 antemedian, small, oval, twin red spot in the cell, touching 

 ■which is a pale double line deeply angulated externally, the 

 interspace between the lines being filled in with brownish ; a 

 large quadrate variegated tawny patch at the end o£ the cell, 

 palely edged ; the postmedian line double, deeply angulated 

 externally about vein 6, with a sharp internal dentation below 

 vein 2 ; interspace between the double line broadish, brown ; 

 a wedge-shaped tawny patch between veins 3 and 6, in which 

 is an oval bright orange terminal spot between veins 5 and 6 ; 

 two obscure, narrow, ovate subapical spots. Secondaries 

 yellow, with an obscure browniish spot closing the cell and a 

 broad, obscure, brownish terminal border. 



Expanse 44 mm. 



Hab. Oni (Lagos) ; March. 



Type in the Hope Museum, Oxford. 



Near D, brunnei'costa, Holl. 



Dasychira rujicosta, sp. n. 



(J. Head and thorax dark grey ; abdomen whitish, with a 

 dark proximal tuft. Primaries with the costal half (including 

 the cell) pale chestnut-brown, the lower part grey ; an ante- 

 median oblique pale line, edged laterally with dark brown ; a 

 postmedian, fine, oblique, crenulate dark line, beyond which 

 between veins la and 2 is a pale chestnut-brown lunulate 

 patch; a subterminal line of dark internervular dashes,- 

 bordered externally with whitish ; none of the lines extend 

 into the pale chestnut costal half. Secondaries pure creamy 

 white. 



Expanse 34 mm. 



Hab. N'Dalla Tando (N. Angola), 2700 feet ; November. 



Type in my collection. 



Near D. basalis. 



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