1910.] MOTHS FROM NORTHERN RHODESIA. 429 



ochreous ; tarsi with pale rings. Fore wing dark purplish brown 

 irrorated with grey ; antemedial and medial lines indistinct, 

 dark, waved ; an ochreous white discoidal point ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, dark slightly defined on outer side by grey, angled 

 outwards below costa and at middle, then oblique, sinuous ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, dark, waved, excurved at middle ; an 

 indistinct sinuous dark terminal line. Hind wing dark purplish 

 brown tinged with grey ; traces of curved waved dark medial, 

 postmedial, and subterminal lines ; an indistinct dark terminal 

 line ; the underside greyer with indistinct waved dark medial, 

 postmedial, and subterminal lines. 



Hob. 1ST.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa disfcr., Petauke (Weave), 

 1 o* type. Exp. 36 mm. 



Oalesta sobrina Moschl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xv. p. 91, pi. f. 13 

 (1887). 



Congo, Katanga, Kambove. 



Speiredonia plicat-a, sp. n. (PI. XXXVII. fig. 25.) 



Fore wing of male with depressed groove in discal fold from 

 before middle to near termen ; veins 4, 5 depressed at base. 



J 1 . Head and thorax dark reddish brown ; abdomen fuscous 

 brown ; palpi in front, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen greyer. Fore wing greyish brown irrorated and suf- 

 fused in parts with fuscous ; subbasal line indistinct, blackish, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, strongly incurved below the cell and excurved above 

 inner margin ; a rather diffused medial line, expanding into an 

 obscure annulus below the cell ; reniform with faint pale annulus 

 somewhat concave on inner side and displaced towards costa 

 above the fold ; postmedial line double, blackish filled in with 

 greyish, waved, excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line greyish 

 defined on inner side by black suffusion, somewhat dentate 

 angled outwards at vein 7 ; a series of small black and whitish 

 spots just before termen; cilia fuscous with a fine pale line at 

 base. Hind wing greyish brown; an indistinct sinuous dark 

 antemedial line ; medial line double, blackish filled in with grey, 

 minutely waved, sinuous ; postmedial line double, the inner line 

 strong, blackish, minutely waved, sinuous ; a series of small black 

 and whitish spots just before termen ; a fine pale line at base of 

 cilia; the underside grey-brown with the lines indistinct and 

 more even. 



2 . Darker ; fore wing with indistinct discoidal bar, the 

 obscure annulus at lower angle of cell. 



Hob. Congo, Katanga, Kambove (Neave), 1 $ ; N.E. Rhodesia, 

 N. Luangwa, Mt. Ulungu (Neave), 7 o* , 9 $ type ; Pondoland 

 (Swinwy), 1 $ . Exp. 48-56 mm. 



