neio African Ihterocera. 5G5 



brown ; thorax with deep velvety-brown lateral j^atches. 

 Primaries reddish brown, with a very deep dark red-brown 

 basal suffusion, extending along the cell and more or less up 

 to the postmedian area, where it ends in a slight curve, there 

 is, however, a paler dull median patch in this area, below the 

 cell this dark area is abruptly terminated by a fine, curved, 

 cream-coloured line, below which the colour is pale reddish 

 fo the inner margin ; postmedian and terminal areas paler 

 reddish, with a line of irregular internervular short dashes. 

 Secondaries pinkish pale brown. 



Expanse 43 mm. 



Hab. N'Dalla Tando, 2700 feet; November [Ansorge). 



Type in my collection. 



Metanastria zopheropa, sp. n. 



(J . Head, thorax, and primaries dirty umber-brown ; 

 abdomen and secondaries darker brown. Primaries with an 

 irregular double dentate antemedian line; postmedian line 

 irregular and partially crcnulate, followed by an indistinct 

 trace of a similar line further outwards, from which (line) the 

 posterior area is decidedly paler and in which is the sub- 

 terminal fine dentate dark line, apical costal area darker. 

 Secondaries quite uniform. 



Expanse 60 mm. 



Hob. Gunnal, West Africa. 



Type in my collection. 



Leipaxis cremdata, sp. n. 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous tawny brown, abdomen 

 ochreous grey. Primaries tawny brown with a pale median 

 costal patch, median dark line angled outwards in the cell. 

 Postmedian dark line crenulate with two outward angles, sub- 

 terminal line darkly dotted with pale outer edges subcrenulate, 

 the area between these two lines (postmedian and subterminal) 

 being ochreous tawny. Secondaries creamy buff for the 

 basal two-thirds, pale reddish brown for the terminal 

 third. 



Expanse 35 mm. 



Hab. N'Dalla Tando, 2700 feet ; November {Ansorge). 



Type in my collection. 



Trichiura definita, sp. n. 



(J . Head and tliorax iron-grey, antennae ochreous, abdo- 

 men grey. Primaries dark grey, with an antemedian white 

 irregular line angled outwards below the cell ; postmedian 



