nexo African Saturniidse, 7 



line. The eighth ventral ring of abdomen sinuate, the angles 

 being acuminate. 



Length of fore wing 27 mm. 



Mpwapwa, German East Africa ; one male in the Tring 

 Museum. 



14. Tagoropsis sabulosa^ sp. n. 



Buflf, the head and upperside of the legs being brown-red. 

 Wings almost uniformlj irrorated with brown-red scales, 

 wliich give the wings a pinkish-bufF appearance. On fore 

 wing the first and second lines thin, placed as in T.flavinatci', 

 ocellus small, composed of a vitreous dot encircled by a 

 brown-red line ; the discal line curved gently but distinctly 

 towards apex of wing, being costally much more distal than 

 in T.flavinatci; apex of wing produced; no submarginal 

 spots, but the reddish scaling slightly condensed at the outer 

 side of the discal line. On hind wing two lines, the first 

 placed as in T.flavinata, the second costally excurved, poste- 

 riorly incurved ; the anal angle more jirominent than in 

 T. flavinata, the distal margin being less rounded. 



Underside like upper ; the first line of fore wing absent. 



The anal tergite black, divided, each lobe compressed. 

 Olasper excised ventrally before apex, the upper lobe pro- 

 jecting, the dorsal edge of clasper biemarginate. 



Length of fore wing 4:6 mm. 



Moshi, Kilimandjaro ; one male in the Tring Museum. 



15. Tagoropsis lupina^ sp. n. 



Ochraceous buff; palpus and fore cox« vinaceous rufous ; 

 upperside of legs rosy. Fore wing with three brown-red lines, 

 the first as in T.flavinata^ broken at median vein, the second 

 straight across the ocellus, very slightly dentate on the 

 proximal side; the third line also straight, commencing at 

 costal margin mm. from the apex, meeting the second line 

 at inner margin ; ocellus composed of a round vitreous spot 

 edged with brown-red. On hind wing a broad evenly curved 

 median line and a vestige of an undulate discal line. 



Underside washed with brown-red except the posterior area 

 of the fore wing; the lines as above, but the first line of the- 

 fore wing absent. 



Length of fore wing 55 mm. 



Lokolele, Congo; one female in the Tring Museum» 



