458 SIR GEORGE F. HAMPSOX ox [Mar. 1, 



above ; fore coxas with some black : mid and hind tibiae, the spurs 

 and tarsi banded with black. Fore wing oclireous yellow, the 

 costal area tinged with fulvous, the costal edge black at base ; a 

 diffused pale fuscous subbasal shade with minute black points on 

 it from costa to submedian fold ; a faint antemedial line, inwardly 

 oblique from below costa to inner margin ; medial area suffused 

 with pale fuscous leaving a yellow patch from costa to lower angle 

 of cell where it is slightly angled inwards, the outer edge of the 

 dark area diffused outwards along vein 6, then curved ; a sub- 

 terminal series of small black spots excurved below vein 7 and 

 with faint patches of dark scales beyond them on the veins. 

 Hind wing yellow tinged with brown, the cilia yellow ; the under- 

 side yellow with diffused brown postmedial shade. 



Hob. X.E. Rhodesia, Chambezi valley (Neave), 1 <5 type. 

 Exp. 32 mm. 



Euproctis fulvipennis, sp. n. (PI, XXXVIII. fig. 31.) 



Head and thorax fulvous orange ; antennae with the branches 

 black ; palpi with the 3rd joint blackish ; anal tuft of female 

 brownish grey. Fore wing fulvous orange ; indistinct somewhat 

 diffused and slightly sinuous whitish ante- and postmedial lines. 

 Hind wing uniform fulvous orange. 



Hah. N.W. Rhodesia, Kapopo (Neave), 1 S type; X.E. Rho- 

 desia, Kalungwisi valley (Neave), 1 6,1 § . Exp. S 30, $ 

 34 mm. 



Xyctemera varun^ea Druce, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 780. 



Congo, Katanga, Kambove, Lualaba R. 



[Nyctemera varuncea Druce. — This large species was not un- 

 common in Katanga. It is diurnal in its habits and has an 

 extremely powerful flight. It usually flies very straight and at a 

 good speed some 10 or 12 feet from the ground. — S. A. X.] 



Dasychira eddela Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1903, p. 494. 

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



Numenes libyra Druce, A. M. X. H. (6) xvii. p. 353 (1896). 

 X.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr. 



Homochira rendalxi Dist. A. M. X. H. (6) xx. p. 203 (1897). 

 X.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr. 



Lymantria flavicilia, sp. n. (PI. XXXVIII. fig. 14.) 



2 . Head and thorax brown mixed with greyish ; pectus pale ; 

 femora crimson above ; abdomen crimson with subdorsal series of 

 slight blackish spots and ventral series of black bands, the anal 

 tuft yellowish. Fore wing fuscous brown mixed with some grey ; 

 traces of a curved antemedial line ; a small black spot on a pale 

 patch in end of cell and an oblique black discoidal lunule ; traces 



