1910.] MOTHS FROM NORTHERN RHODESIA. 391 



Metarctia burra Schaus, Lep. S. Leone, p. 23, pi. i. f. 6 



(1893). 



Congo, Katanga, Kambove. 



Metarctia flavivena Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. i. p. 40 

 (1900). 



Portuguese E. Africa, Makanga distr. 



Pseudapiconoma nigripennis Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. ii. 4, p. 30 

 (1904). 



Congo, Katanga, Kambove. 



Pseudapiconoma fenestrata Jorcl. Nov. Zool. xi. p. 442 (1904). 

 Congo, Katanga, Kambove. 



Genus Pseudmelisa, nov. 



Type, P. chalybsa. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi small, porrect ; antennas of female 

 laminate ; tibiae with minute terminal pairs of spurs ; abdomen 

 very elongate. Fore wing narrow and elongate, the termen very 

 obliquely curved ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; 

 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 10 from beyond 7 ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing small ; vein 3 from before angle of cell, 

 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 coincident. 



Pseudmelisa chalybsa, sp. n. (PI. XXXYI. fig. 5.) 



2 . Head and thorax black slightly irrorated with metallic 

 blue ; shoulders and pectus at sides with crimson spots ; abdomen 

 black with a slight metallic blue gloss ; a crimson dorsal band at 

 base and lateral patches on the next four segments, a slight 

 yellow dorsal spot on 6th segment, the two terminal segments 

 dorsally yellow, the anal tuft crimson. Fore wing brilliant 

 metallic blue. Hind wing black shot with metallic blue. 



Sab. Congo, Kambove distr. (JYeave), 1 $ type. Exp. 46 mm. 



Euchromia lethe Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 553 (1775). 

 Congo, Katanga, Kambove. 



Euchromia sperchia Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 146, f. C (1777). 

 Congo, Katanga, Kambove. 



Aectiadj;. 



LlTHOSIAN^E. 



Ilema elegans Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 347. 



Subsp. restricta, nov. 



Abdomen dorsally orange ; male with the terminal band of fore 

 wing much narrower, of hind wing hardly more than a line ; 



