492 ARCTIADJE. 



scales ; antenna) brown ; frons, palpi, and legs brown, the palpi 

 black at tips ; abdomen grey-brown, tbe extremity and ventral 

 surface brown. Fore wing white sligbtly striated with brown and 

 prominently irrorated with large raised black scales, tbe costal area 

 tinged with brown, tbe postmedial line represented by a minute 

 black spot above vein 5 towards termen ; cilia tinged with red- 

 brown. Hind wing white tinged with brown, tbe apical area suffused 

 with brown. Underside of fore wing and costal half of bind wing 

 pale red-brown. 



Hab. Cente. Madagascar, Nalamagaotna, 2500' {Pratt), 

 type f 2 m Coll. Kenrick. Exp. 36 millim. 



*293 b. Ilema lmmilis. 



Ilema liumilis, Kenrick, Trans Ent. Soc. 1913, p. 602, pi. 31. f. 7. 



S . Head and thorax pale red-brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 white slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing pale red-brown ; a 

 faint brown spot in discal fold beyond the cell and medial spots 

 above vein 1 and on inner margin. Hind wing white witli a very 

 faint brown tinge ; tbe underside with tbe costal area rather more 

 strongly tinged with red-brown. 



Hab. Centr. Madagascar, Nalamagaotna, 2500' {Pratt), 

 type t 6 in Coll. Kenrick. Exp. 30 millim. 



293 c. Ilema peperita. (Plate XXVI. fig. 35.) 



Ilema -peperita, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 181 (1901). 

 Eilema montana, Auriv. Sjost. Kilimanjaro-Morn Exp. ii. 9, p. 27, pi. 1. 

 fig. 12 (1910). 



Head and thorax grey tinged with brown and irrorated with 

 black ; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing brownish grey strongly 

 irrorated with black ; a very indistinct postmedial line exenrved 

 from below costa to vein 6, then very oblique and with a black point 

 on it in submedian fold and obsenre spot on inner margin. Hind 

 wing brownish white slightly irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 

 with vein G from below angle of cell; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 11 anas- 

 tomosing with 12. 



Ab. 1. montana. Fore wing with the postmedial line more 

 strongly marked especially towards costa. 



Hab. Be. E. Africa, Nairobi {Anderson), 1 c?, Uganda Ry., 

 Mile 478 {Betton), 1 $ type, Nakuro {Betton), 1 $ f Germ. E. 

 Africa, Kilima 'njaro, Kiboseho {Sjostedt), t}'pe f $ montana in 

 Mus. Stockholm. Exp. 34 millim. 



296 a. Ilema rubrescens. (Plate XXVI. fig. 36.) 

 Ilema rubrescens, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) iv. p. 353 (1909). 



5 . Head and thorax pale red-brown with a yellowisb tinge ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale red-brown with 



