MEGANACLIA. — THYRETES. (il 



spot; a postmedial series of four spots between veins 7 and 3 with the 

 two lower displaced towards termen. Hind wing pale dull crimson ; 

 a hyaline spot above base of vein 3 with a small spot above vein 4 

 and brownish suffusion beyond them. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa,' Uganda Ry., Mile 478 (Betton), 1 J 

 type. Exp. 36 millim. 



257. Meganaclia carnea, insert : — 



27G. Metarctia perpusilla, which is the 6 of the species and 

 has priority. 



258 a. Meganaclia minor, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 22.) 



c? . Head pale yellow ; antenna? with shaft white above ; palpi 

 brownish at base, blackish at tips ; thorax pale grey-brown ; legs 

 yellowish white, the fore legs tinged with brown ; abdomen pale 

 grey-brown with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of small 

 black spots, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing pale semi- 

 hyaline brownish; a whitish triangular spot in middle of cell; 

 a whitish band from below costa beyond middle, with irregular 

 edges to vein 4, then very narrow and obliquely curved to sub- 

 median fold, where it is angled inwards, then exeurved ; the veins 

 whitish towards termen. Hind wing pale semihyaline brownish ; 

 a curved whitish postmedial band, the veins whitish towards 

 termen. 



Hab. Uganda, Entebbe (Neave), 1 S type. Exp. 42 millim. 



262. Thyretes negus, insert (syn.) : — 



Thyretes misa, Strand, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg\ lv. p. 146 (1911). 

 ToGOLAND. 



*263 a. Thyretes trichsetiformis. (Plate III. fig. 23.) 



TJuj'etes trichsetiformis, Zerny, Iris, xxvi. p. 119 (1912). 



cT . Head and shoulders yellow, the antennae dark brown with 

 the shaft white above at tips; thorax reddish brown with yellow 

 patch on metathorax, coxae and tarsi except at extremities yellow ; 

 abdomen brown with yellow bands on each segment. Pore wing- 

 reddish brown ; a yellow patch below base of cell ; a large quadrate 

 antemedial hyaline patch below the cell with yellow streak below 

 it ; a wedge-shaped hyaline patch in middle of cell ; a curved scries 

 of hyaline spots from vein 7 to vein 2 below middle of cell 

 separated by slight yellow streaks on the veins and with the spot 

 below vein 6 small. Hind wing reddish brown ; the base of inner 

 area yellow ; a series of four hyaline spots below the cell from 

 vein 5 to before 2, with some yellow on the veins between them. 



Hab. German E. Africa, Zanzibar Coast, Sikora, type f J in 

 Mus. Vienna. Exp. 26 millim. 



