during the Cruise of the ^Valhalla.' 491 



5 and 2, and a lunule below angle of cell ; a fine yellowish 

 line at base of cilia. Hind wing yellow ; a dark discoidal bar 

 and some brown suffusion below end of cell ; postmedial line 

 brown, strongly bent outwards between veins 5 and 3, then 

 retracted to vein 5 and forming a loop, then oblique to inner 

 margin ; a broad brown terminal band, its inner edge bent 

 outwards and dentate between veins 5 and 2 ; cilia brown, 

 with yellowish line at base from apex tosubmedian fold, then 

 white, with some brown at base towards tornus. 

 Madagascar, Forct d'Ambre, I ,^ type. Exp. 26 mm. 



Sylepta trijidalis, sp. n. 



cJ . Head and thorax bronze-brown ; palpi black, white 

 below ; pectus and legs whitish ; abdomen bronze-brown, the 

 anal tuft and ventral surface white. Fore wing bronze- 

 brown, with a slight purplish gloss; antemedial line dark, 

 oblique ; a quadrate hyaline spot in end of cell, followed by 

 an indistinct dark discoidal spot, with pale bar on disco- 

 cellulars ; postmedial line dark, with trifid yellowish-white 

 mark on its outer edge from costa, then slightly defined by 

 whitish, sliglitly curved from costa to vein 2, then retracted 

 to below angle of cell, and again slightly excurved ; cilia 

 with a fine yellowish-white line at base, followed by a dark 

 line, the tips greyish. Hind wing bronze-brown with a 

 slight purplish tinge, the base pale ; a slight dark discoidal 

 lunule ; postmedial line dark, slightly defined by whitish ou 

 outer side, excurved between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to 

 below angle of cell and oblique to tornus ; cilia with dark 

 line at base and whitish tips. 



Bb. E. Africa, Mukuniu {Betton), 1 <S type; Aden 

 {Meade-Waldo), 1 ? . Exp. 24 mm. 



Archernis flavidalis, sp. n. 



? . Orange-yellow ; head paler ; fore femora towards 

 extremity, tihiie and tarsi banded with blackish. Fore wing 

 with traces of brownish diffused antemedial line ; traces of 

 spots in end of cell and on discoceUulavs; a rather more 

 distinct postmedial line bent outwards between veins .5 and 2. 

 then retracted to below angle of cell, and ending in a fuscous 

 spot on inner margin ; traces of a maculate subterminal line. 

 Hind wing rather paler, without markings. 



IS'atal, Durban, The Blutf, 1 $ type. Exp. 32 mm. 



