1898.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA* 433 



(1871) ; Von der Pecken's Reisen in Ost-Africa, Gliederthiere, 

 p. 375, pi. xv. fig. 7 (1873). 



Maungu Inkubwa, 21st March, 1897. 



196. ANTHEUA SIMPLEX. 



Antheua simplex, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iii. p. 687 (1855). 



$ , Taru, 23rd November, 1896. 



The female is quite new to us and is of considerable interest, as 

 it clearly indicates that A. cinerea "Walk, is the female of 

 A. spurcata of the same author. 



197. STAUROPTJS DASYCHIROIDES, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 12.) 

 $ . Primaries pale lilacine ash-grey, orbicular and renif orm spots 



huffish white, ill-defined ; a vague oblique dusky stripe from costa 

 just behind the orbicular spot, uniting below first median branch 

 with an ill-defined, pale-buff-bordered, undulated, arched post- 

 median dusky line ; beyond the latter three almost parallel 

 diffused stripes, which form an imperfect widely zigzag inner 

 limitation to a slightly paler external border ; costa crossed 

 beyond the middle by three or four short dusky bars : secondaries 

 semitransparent white, with sordid costal border and moderately 

 broad smoky-brown outer border ; fringe ashy white : antennae 

 rosy cupreous, with ferruginous pectinations ; thorax coloured like 

 the primaries, the patagia slightly brownish; abdomen pale 

 brownish ash. Primaries belo\v pale lilacine ash -coloured, with 

 vague whitish orbicular and reniform spots, between which runs a 

 grey oblique streak from the costa; a faint trace of a postmedian 

 stripe commencing in an oblique blackish costal dash, three 

 blackish subapical costal spots, below which a broad smoky 

 submarginal belt commences and runs to external angle ; outer 

 border pale lilacine ash-grey ; interno-basal area white : secondaries 

 as above : pectus ashy ; legs somewhat fuliginous ; venter sordid 

 white. Expanse of wings 53 millim. 



Maziwa Mitatu, 27th March, 1897. 



This curious species has the neuration of Stauropus, but does 

 not nearly resemble any form know to me. 



GrEOMETRID^E. 



198. GONODELA SUFFLATA. 



Macaria sufflata, Guenee, Phal. ii. p. 88, pi. xvii. fig. 8. 

 Between Voi and Ndi, 3rd & 4th June, 1897. 

 New to the Museum from East Africa, though we have it from 

 the extreme south and from Abyssinia. 



199. CCENINA ATTRIVENA, sp. n. 



Ccenina flavivena Warren, MS. 



$> . Primaries formed as in C. pcecilaria, pale greyish stone- 



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