1896.] FROM NYASA-LAND. 845 



cell dusted with grey ; a submarginal series of ochreous lunules ; 

 a partly zigzag dusky marginal border, interrupted on the fringe 

 by ochreous spots : secondaries with a slender black marginal line : 

 body below deep ochreous ; tibias, tarsi, and venter more or less 

 blackish. Expanse of wings 55 millira. 



Luvira River, Nyasa to Tanganyika plateau, Dec. 14th, 1895. 



It is possible that this species may eventually be separated from 

 Phalera as the type of a new genus, but at present there does not 

 seem sufficient evidence of the importance of the characters which 

 differentiate it to warrant its being thus distinguished ; the width 

 of the wings and the antennal characters are not uniform in the 

 genus, whilst the position of the upper radial is the same as in 

 P. sigmata. 



131. PANTOCTENTA GEMMANS. 



Pantoctenia gemmans, Felder, Eeise der Nov., Lep. iv. pi. Ixxxii. 

 fig. 16 (1874). 



Kasungu Mountain, 7425 feet alt., Nyika, March 2nd, 1896. 



132. T^DA PRASINA. (Plate XLII. fig. 4.) 



Tceda prasina, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xviii. 

 p. 161 (1896). 



Luvira River, Nyasa to Tanganyika plateau, Dec. 14th, 1895. 



SCOTINOCHROA, gen. nov. 



Allied to Cosuma, neuratiou the same ; antennae longer and more 

 uniformly pectinated ; palpi totally dissimilar much longer, falci- 

 form, the second joint long, subcylindrical, somewhat flattened 

 internally, directed obliquely upwards, third joint half the length 

 of the second, somewhat acuminate ; tarsi of front pair of legs not 

 fringed as in Cosuma, and those of the second and third pairs 

 rather penicillated than fringed, each joint having a fairly well- 

 defined separate flattened tuft at the back. 



133. ScoriisrocHROA INCONSEQUENS, sp. n. 



Primaries above vinaceous chocolate-brown, sprinkled with 

 shining, mostly leaden-grey scales ; a D-shaped spot at the end of the 

 cell, connate with an oblique irregular band from costa near apex 

 to inner margin, this band is narrowest and inarched at its upper 

 extremity, widest towards the inner margin ; both spot and band 

 are mostly whity brown externally and shining leaden grey in the 

 middle, and are bounded internally by irregular black dashes and 

 externally by a black line; from the cell downwards the inner 

 margin of the band is zigzag and the outer margin undulated, and 

 followed by an abbreviated similar band, which, however, has no 

 leaden central scales (and therefore stands out as a pale patch with 

 undulated outer margin) : secondaries pale sericeous vinaceous, 

 showing slight greenish reflections in certain lights ; the abdominal 

 border and base of fringe sienna or golden brownish ; centre of 



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