52 Colonel C. Swlulioc on new Easternj 



Digama africana, nov. 



(J ? . Antenna} of male bij^'ctinate; palpi grey, witli black 

 bands at the ti|)3 of the last two joints ; frons and head white, 

 thorax greyish wiiite ; two black dots on the collar, four in a 

 transverse row ou the fore part of the thorax ; abdomen 

 ochreous, with dorsal black segmental dots : fore wings dark 

 ochrcous grey, with a purplish tinge, one fifth at base white, 

 divided by a groy transverse line, containing a black spot in 

 the cell and ono near hinder angle ; a white medial band, 

 consisting of a large white square patch containing a black 

 spot on the costa and a much smaller patch on tiie hinder 

 angle ; another white patch on tlie costa at two thirds, with a 

 thin white band running down from it to the hinder angle, 

 angled outwards in its middle, with a curious incomplete 

 white circular mark near tiie inner side of the angle. 



The above is a description of a female from Tonga ; the 

 other female and the male from Samburu have all the white 

 bands more or less traceable, but very obscure from greyish 

 suffusion ; the hind wings are dark ochreous yellow, with a 

 narrow band at the apex, not continued on the costa or outer 

 margin. On the underside all three examples are identical, 

 being entirely yellow, the fore wings having some traces of 

 the upperside markings and the costal spot rather prominent. 



Expanse of wings, (^ l^'-^^, $ I^q inch. 



Samburu, British East Atrica (Betlon) ; one male. Tonga, 

 British East Africa ; two females. Types in B. M. 



Digama elongata^ nov. 



<J . Antennae with the shafts white, pectinations black ; 

 palpi black, white beneath ; frons, head, body, and wings 

 ■white; frons with a large black spot, a small one on the top 

 of the head, three on the thorax down the middle, and three 

 on each side; abdomen with a dorsal row: fore wing.i with 

 pale blackish broad bands, first basal, for one filth with a 

 white mark at the base, its outer margin with an outward 

 dentation above the middle and extends in a streak along 

 the hinder margin, joined on the costa to tiie second band, 

 which has irregular margins on each side and runs obliquely 

 from the middle of the costa to the hinder margin one third 

 from the angle; the third band is discal and runs down only 

 a short distance from the costa, and narrows down to two little 

 spots ; the fourth band is composed of elongated spots ou tae 



