716 sin G. F. HAMPSOK — KETISION OF MOTHS [NoV.15, 



medial fuscous line ; semihyaline specks in middle and end of cell, 

 and a bidentate spot beyond tlie end ; a dentate fuscous postmedial 

 line exeurved between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to below end 

 of cell. Hind wing with postmedial fuscous line bent outwards 

 and dentate between veins 5 and 2, then retracted and oblique to 

 near tornus ; the tongue-shaped apical fold fuscous. 

 Hah. Sierra Leone {Clements). Exp. 36 mm. 



Sect. VII. Antennae of male normal. 



A. Fore tarsi of male with the 1st joint fringed on both sides 

 with long hair ; mid tibiae dilated and fringed with hair 

 on outer side, as also the 1st joint of tarsus. 



(30)tSYLEPTA OLEMENTSI, n. sp. (Plate XLIX. fig. 11.) 



Head yellow, the 2nd joint of palpi black above, a black spot 

 between antennae ; thorax and abdomen orange-yellow, collar and 

 patagia striped with black, abdomen with black dorsal patch on 

 subterminal segment. Fore wing with the basal area and costa 

 yellow ; subbasal and curved antemedial black bands ; a quadrate 

 black spot in cell ; whitish patches in and below cell ; outer half 

 of wing black with purplish gloss ; a postmedial whitish band 

 attenuate in discal fold, angled inwards above vein 2 and termi- 

 nating just below it; a quadrate whitish patch on costa before 

 apex; a yellowish mark on margin above outer angle in male. 

 Hind wing pale yellow ; oblique antemedial, medial, and submar- 

 ginal black bands, the two latter meeting near anal angle, the 

 medial expanding towards costa, and the submarginal arising from 

 a large apical patch ; a marginal band. 



Hab. Sierra Leone {Clements). Exp. 42 mm. Types in B.M. 

 and Coll. Schaus. 



B. {Herpetocjramma). Fore tibiae of male tufted with hair. 



(31)tSYLEPTA PATAGiALis Zell. Lep. Caffr. p. 37. S. America. 



Herpetoyramma servalis, Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 430, 

 pi. 16. f. 16. 



(32)tSyLEPTA CBRESALis Wlk. xviii. 581. Haiti. 



Botys candacalis, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 135. f. 47. 



C. {Patania). Hind tibiae of male with a large tuft of hair 



and long flattened scales on iiuier side before the medial 

 spurs. 



(33)tSyLEPTA coNOATENALis Wlk. xxxiv. 1408. Sikhim. 



(34;*Sylepta ningpoalis Leech, Ent. xxii. p. 68, pi. iii. f. 1. 



Japan. 



