1910.] MOTHS FROM NORTHERN RHODESIA. 401 



Massagidia hesparia Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 56. f. C (1775). 

 Congo, Katanga, Kambove. 



Massagidia tenuifascia, sp. n. (PI. XXXVI. fig. 12.) 



2 . Head and teguke crimson, the 3rd joint of palpi and 

 antenna? black ; thorax and abdomen black slightly shot with 

 blue, the terminal segments of abdomen crimson ; pectus in front 

 and fore femora crimson. Fore wing black shot with blue, the 

 veins and submedian fold streaked with brilliant blue, a rather 

 broad medial white band, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, 

 then erect : cilia white at apex. Hind wing black shot with blue ; 

 a medial white band narrowing to inner margin and with its 

 outer edge curved ; cilia white at apex. 



One specimen has veins 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 of fore wing stalked. 



Hah. Congo, Kambove distr. (Weave), 3 $ type. Exp. 48-54 mm. 



NOCTUID J£. 

 AGROTIN./E. 



Chloridea obsoleta Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1. p. 456 (1793). 



Congo, Katanga, Kambove ; N.W. Rhodesia, Alala plateau ; 

 Portuguese E. Africa, Chinde. 



Chloridea flavigera Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xix. p. 248 

 (1907). 



X.E. Rhodesia, Luangwa valley. 



Timora albipuncta, sp. n. (PI. XXXVI. fig. 28.) 



Antenna? of male serrate. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous yellow. Fore wing 

 ochreous yellow, with blood-red or purplish-red markings ; costal 

 edge red ; a diffused red antemedial line angled outwards in sub- 

 median fold where there is a spot beyond it : a small spot in 

 middle of cell and discoidal lunule constricted at middle ; a 

 diffused subterminal band with series of white points near its 

 outer edge, oblique from below apex to discal fold, then excurved 

 and formed of somewhat dentate marks to submedian fold where 

 there is a small spot before it ; a terminal series of red points. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with yellow. 



Hah. X.E. Rhodesia, upper Luangwa valley (Weave), 1 $ , 1 $ 

 type. Exp. 26 mm. 



Timora lanceolata Wlk. xxxiii. 767 (1865). 

 Congo, Katanga, Kambove. 



Timora daphcena, sp. n. (PI. XXXVI. fig. 29.) 



S . Head and thorax deep pink ; palpi fuscous ; antenna? 

 brownish ; pectus and legs ochreous white tinged with pink ; 

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