1898.] EROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 437 



209. OilOCEIfA STRTIS ? 



(S . Miresa syrtis, Schaus & Clements, Coll. Sierra Leoue Lep. 

 p. 28, pi. ii. fig. 3 (1893). 



$ , Voi, 19th September, 1897. 



The lines across the primaries approximate on costa and diverge 

 more widely on inner margin than in the figure o£ the male; but 

 variations of this nature are so common, that I dare not venture to 

 assume their importance in the present instance. 



210. GrATAEA TELUTINA. 



(S . Gavara velutina, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xii. p. 771 (1857). 

 2 , Maungu Inkubwa, 20th March, 1897. 



New to us from E. Africa. Walker placed it in the JVoctuidcE, 

 just in front of the Acontiince, to which (of course) it has no affinity. 



211. XiPHADOLEPis AUEicixcTA, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 9.) 

 Sericeous snow-white ; primaries with faint traces of buff 



(possibly the indications of a subbasal stripe) near the base ; two 

 buff central stripes, oblique and tolerably wide apart from costa to 

 median vein, thence rather closer together and undulated to inner 

 margin; a buff discocellular lunule joining the outer stripe ; an 

 abbreviated buff submargiual stripe towards external angle ; three 

 black marginal dots at apex and one near to external angle: 

 secondaries with narrow diffused dusky border : collar and patagia 

 stained with buff ; abdomen with bright golden-orange hind margins 

 to the segments. Under surface sericeous snow-white, the primaries 

 with sordid huffish suffusion on costal half ; all the wings with two 

 blackish marginal dots at apex ; anterior legs banded with olive- 

 brown. Expanse of wings 24 millim. 



Taru, 29th November, 1896. 



Nipliadolejiis approaches Gavara in structure, the antennse and 

 palpi being similar and the venation not very greatly differing. 



212. Paryphanta bisecta, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 10.) 

 Nearly allied to P.fimhriata : smoky grey, the primaries con- 

 siderably darker than the secondaries and divided through the 

 middle by a narrow oblique faintly angulated belt, white internally, 

 flesh-tinted externally ; a pale submarginal line : fringe with a 

 huffish basal line and pale tips : secondaries bone-whitish towards 

 base ; fringe paler than in primaries, but similarly coloured : head 

 pale huffish, antennse and palpi pale golden ochreous ; thorax whity 

 brown, with dusky central transverse belt and posterior margin ; 

 abdomen golden-testaceous, with sericeous ashy dorsal transverse 

 bars : under surface pale sandy brownish ; primaries sericeous 

 greyish shading to bronze-brown. Expanse of wings 17 millim. 



d , Samburu, 14th November, 1896. 



Karsch describes his species as having the primaries grey, densely 

 covered with brown dots ; if examined under a platyscopic lens, 

 my species might be described as pale grey densely covered with 

 blackish dots. 



