Species of African Ileierocera. 63 



Peratodonta beUa, sp. n. 



£ . Head and face tawny brown ; collar prominent, 

 ochreous, broadly tipped with tawny brown; thorax purplish 

 grey, with patagia pinkish ; abdomen with dorsum pinkish 

 grey ; ventral surface purplish grey. Primaries with dark 

 linear costa, below which they are tawny brown, gradually 

 becoming paler and shading off into pale pinkish, and in 

 parts of the cell to cream-colour ; an oblique more or less 

 wedge-shaped patch of dark tawny brown occupies the 

 terminal area, beginning in a fine line in the apex and getting 

 rapidly wider to vein 2 ; below vein 2 the whole of the inner 

 margin is pale tawny ash-colour ; in the middle of the 

 terminal area is an irregular, pale bright olive-brown, tooth- 

 shaped mark extending shortly upwards towards the apex. 

 Secondaries uniform cream-colour. 



$ . Like the male, but without the sharp contrasts, the 

 colours being duller, more uniform, the terminal area being 

 pinkish rather than tawny, whilst the secondaries are darkish 

 brownish grey ; the last segment of the abdomen has a pale 

 ash-grey tuft. 



Expanse, <$ 38, ? 49 mm. 



Hob. Oni, 70 miles E. of Lagos. 



Types in the Oxford Museum, 



Male taken by W. A. Lamborn in the verandah of his 

 house at Oni Camp, 4 P.M., Sept. 9, 1911 ; the female at 

 3 P.M. on Sept. 10. A second male was taken in the same 

 position at 4 P.M. on Sept. 9. Mr. Lamborn is confident 

 that all three specimens had emerged from the pupae of 

 captured larvse that had escaped. Mr. Lamborn also captured 

 a third male at rest on the upperside of a leaf in the forest, 

 1 mile east of Oni, March 23, 1911. All four specimens 

 appeared in the wet season, which lasted from March 15 to 

 Dec. 8, 1911. 



Arctiadae. 

 Acantharctia rubri femora, sp. n. 



Head, face, thorax, abdomen, and both wings pure white ; 

 legs white, with bright red femora above. Primaries with 

 all the veins edged with pale greyish brown. Secondaries 

 spotless. 



Expanse 45 mm. 



Hub. Damba Island, Uganda. 



Type in the Oxford Museum. Bred by Dr. Carpenter, 

 June 25, 1911, from a larva which spun June 9. 



