1910.] MOTHS FROM NORTHERN RHODESIA. 483 



slightly incurved below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; the 

 terminal area browner, with a lunulate grey subterminal line 

 and some grey on term en ; cilia chocolate-red. Hind wing with 

 the base purplish brown suffused with grey, the disk deep 

 chocolate-red ; a terminal grey band ; cilia chocolate-red at 

 tips. 



Hah. N.E. Rhodesia, Serenji distr. (Weave), 1 <$ type. Exp. 

 90 mm. 



Gonometa drucei Beth. -Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) ii. p. 260 (1908). 

 (PL XLI. fig. 16.) 



N.E. Rhodesia, Chinsali distr. 



Craspia wahlbergi Auriv. Ark. f. Zool. v. 5, p. 20 (1909). 

 N.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr. 



Metanastria pallens Beth.-Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) ii. p. 260 

 (1908). 



N.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa distr. 



Philotherma fuscescens, sp. n. (PL XLI. fig. 15.) 



c? . Head and thorax grey tinged with brown, the branches of 

 antennae rufous ; abdomen grey tinged with reddish brown, a 

 dark brown lateral line. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous 

 brown ; an indistinct fuscous antemedial line, slightly incurved 

 at subcostal nervure, then obliquely excurved ; a small pale 

 discoidal spot ; postmedial line fuscous, excurved below costa, 

 then oblique ; an oblique subterminal series of dentate blackish 

 marks, bent inwards to costa, somewhat incurved at vein 5 and 

 angled outwards at vein 3. Hind wing grey suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; traces of a diffused sinuous medial fuscous band; 

 a subterminal series of rather diffused fuscous dentate marks ; 

 cilia fuscous ; the underside with the markings less distinct. 



Hah. Congo, S.E. Katanga (Weave), 1 S type. Exp. 92 mm. 



Philotherma sordida Auriv. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1905, p. 318, 

 pi. 16. f. 2. 



N.W. Rhodesia, Alala plateau ; N.E. Rhodesia, Kalungwisi 

 distr. 



Lenodora nigrolineata Auriv. Ent. Tidskr. xvi. p. 115 (1890). 

 N.E. Rhodesia, Fort Jameson. 



Bombycopsis venosa Butl. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 269, pi. xvi. f. 6. 

 N.E. Rhodesia, Ohambezi valley. 



Ceratopacha gemmata Dist. A. M. N. H. (6) xx, p. 207 (1897). 

 N.E. Rhodesia, Luangwa valley. 



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