1910.] MOTHS FROM NORTHERN RHODESIA. 449 



black and grey spots in the interspaces, excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules slightly defined on inner 

 side by greyish ; two fine waved black lines at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown with terminal series of slight black striae ; 

 two fine black lines at base of cilia which are greyish at tips ; the 

 underside tinged with grey. 



2 . Fore wing with band of grey-white suffusion beyond the 

 postmedial line defined on outer side by a sinuous black line, an 

 oblique dentate black shade from termen below apex. 



Hab. X.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr. (Reave), 1 d , 1 5 

 type, 1ST. Luangwa, Mt. Ulungu (JVeave), 1 6 , Chambezi valley 

 (Neave), 1 5 , Tanganyika plateau (JS r eave), 1 6 . Exp. 26-30 mm. 



Hypena tetrasticta, sp. n. (PL XXXVIII. fig. 29.) 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with reddish brown ; 

 tarsi ringed with whitish. Fore wing grey mostly suffused with 

 reddish brown and irrorated with black ; two minute black sub- 

 basal points below the cell ; antemedial line pale defined on outer 

 side by black marks, slightly angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblique to above vein 1 where it is angled outwards ; a minute 

 black point in middle of cell and slight discoidal lunule ; post- 

 medial line dark brown defined on outer side by ochreous, then 

 by grey suffusion, oblique and almost straight, some black suf- 

 fusion before it between lower angle of cell and vein 1, the grey 

 beyond it defined by a faint sinuous fuscous line ; subterminal 

 line represented by an incurved series of four small dentate black 

 and white marks from below costa to vein 5, then by a faint pale 

 waved line ; a grey-white apical patch defined below by an oblique 

 black shade from apex with two dentate marks below it ; a ter- 

 minal series of slight black lunules and two fine lines at base of 

 cilia. Hind wing reddish brown with a dark terminal line ; cilia 

 greyish with two fine dark lines at base ; the underside reddish 

 brown irrorated with grey. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the point in cell black and white, a 

 black spot beyond the cell on inner side of postmedial line, the 

 black patch below the cell wedge-shaped and extending to the 

 antemedial line. 



Hab. X.E. Rhodesia, X. Luangwa, Mt. Ulungu (Reave), 2 $ 

 type. Exp. 30 mm. 



Hypena senialis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 30 (1854). 

 X.E. Rhodesia, Luangwa valley. 



Hypena varialls Wlk. xxxiv. 1132 (1865). 

 N.E. Rhodesia, Luangwa valley. 



Hypena recurvata Hmpsn. Trans. ZooL Soc. xix. p. 116, pi. iv. 

 f. 27 (1909). 



X.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1910, Xo. XXIX. 29 



