1910.] MOTHS FROM NORTHERN RHODESIA. 447 



Zethes ccenotype, sp. n. (PI. XXXVIII. fig. 8.) 



o* . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown, the 

 tibial spurs and tarsi brown ringed with white, the anal tuft 

 whitish. Fore wing grey suffused and irrorated with reddish 

 brown and dark brown ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, oblique 

 from costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique and slightly 

 sinuous ; orbicular and reniform white defined by brown, the 

 former small, round, the latter rather bar-shaped ; a diffused 

 black medial line, oblique from costa to reniform, then inwardly 

 oblique ; postmedial line black slightly defined on outer side by 

 grey, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then oblique ; some 

 slight pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish 

 defined on inner side by fuscous suffusion, minutely dentate ; a 

 fine black terminal line. Hind wing grey suffused and irrorated 

 with reddish brown and dark brown ; a double diffused black 

 medial line, slightly sinuous postmedial line, indistinct double 

 subterminal line with series of black points beyond it, and fine 

 black terminal line ; the underside paler with more blackish 

 irroration, a black and greyish discoidal spot, the lines as above 

 but with no points beyond the subterminal line. 



Hob. N.E. Rhodesia, Chinsali distr. (Reave), 1 <$ type. Exp. 

 28 mm. 



Hypess t ia t .e. 



Nodaria plana Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 261. 

 . N.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr., Luangwa valley. 



Nodaria externalis Guen. Delt. cfe Pyr. p. 64 (1852). 

 N.E. Rhodesia, Luangwa valley, Chambezi valley. 



Nodaria nodosalis Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 385, Noct. 

 f. 605 (1845). 



N.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr., Luangwa valley ; Portu- 

 guese E. Africa, Ohinde. 



Nodaria extinctalis Zell. Yet. Acad. Handl. 1852, p. 13 (1854). 

 N.E. Rhodesia, Kalungwisi distr. 



Simplicia pachycera, sp. ii. (PI. XXXVIII. fig. 9.) 

 Antenna? of male thickened and fringed with hair at about 

 one-third length ; fore tibia? with sheath enclosing a fringe of 

 hair. 



Head and thorax grey-brown tinged with rufous ; antenna? 

 with the shaft whitish towards base ; legs fuscous ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the anal tuft whitish. Fore wing grey-brown tinged 

 with rufous ; faint oblique subbasal and antemedial dark stria? 

 and a slight discoidal lunule ; the terminal area brownish white 

 from below apex to tornus where it narrows to a point ; a 

 terminal series of brown stria? ; cilia brownish white. Hind wing 

 grey-brown ; an indistinct diffused subterminal dark line angled 



