1910.] MOTHS FROM NORTHERN RHODESIA. 487 



Z Y G M NIB .E. 

 HlMANTOPTERIN.E. 



Semioptila torta, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) xx. p. 181 (1887). 

 Congo, Katanga, Kambove. 



Semioptila flavidiscata, sp. n. (PL XXXIX. fig. 27.) 



$ . Head and thorax black-brown, the tegulae and fringe of 

 hair on upper edge of patagia fulvous orange ; abdomen dorsally 

 red-brown, yellow at sides and black-brown below. Fore wing- 

 dark brown, thinly scaled, the veins darker ; the cell fulvous 

 yellow, conjoined to a round spot beyond it ; the inner area 

 fulvous yellow to the cell and vein 2. Hind wing linear- 

 lanceolate, expanding soinewha/fc towards base but not towards 

 extremity ; the basal third fulvous yellow, the terminal two- 

 thirds black-brown. 



$ . Fore wing with the cell and inner area paler fulvous 

 yellow ; hind wing expanding still less towards base, the basal 

 third pale fulvous yellow. 



Hab. N.E. Rhodesia, Serenji distr. (Weave), 1^,1$ type. 

 Exp. 24 mm. 



Staphyeinocbrous whytei Butl. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 376, pi. 60. 

 f. 11. 



Congo, Katanga, Kambove, 



Staphylinochrous fulva, sp. n. (PL XL. fig. 10.) 



J . Head and thorax black, with some fulvous hair on tegulpe 

 and patagia ; legs with some yellowish hair ; abdomen fulvous 

 mixed with brown. Fore wing fulvous red, the median nervure, 

 veins rising from it and vein 1 somewhat blackish ; the terminal 

 area black-brown, expanding towards apex and with its inner 

 edge evenly curved. Hind wing fulvous red ; the terminal area 

 black-brown, expanding somewhat towards apex, its inner edge 

 curved and produced to slight streaks on the veins. 



Hab. Congo, Katanga, Kambove (Weave), 3 <S type. Exp. 

 42 mm. 



Staphylinochrous euryperalis, sp, n. (PL XL. fig. 17.) 



Head and front of thorax fulvous, the rest of thorax and 

 antennae black ; pectus and legs fulvous mixed with brown ; 

 abdomen fulvous, dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 fulvous yellow, the veins streaked with dark brown ; the terminal 

 area fuscous brown, expanding into a rounded patch extending - to 

 the cell on apical area and narrowing to a point at tornus. Hind 

 wing fulvous yellow, the veins beyond the cell brownish ; the 

 terminal area fuscous brown, moderately broad at apex, narrowing 

 to a point at tornus. 



Hab. Br. C. Africa, Matope (de Jersey), 1 S 5 X.E. Rhodesia 

 Luangwa valley (Weave), 2 <J type. Exp. 34-36 mm. 



