MOTHS FROM B. E. AFRICA. 709 



The above specimens are smaller, the antenna? of the males 

 less highly pectinated than in a specimen in my collection from 

 Natal. The specimen from Kisanaia is white, the others hyaline, 

 diffused with fuscous. Also recorded from Somaliland. 



Family A r c t i A d iE. 

 Subfamily Arctian^. 



126. EsTiGMENB griseata Hampson, P. Z. S. 1916, p. 103. 



Habitat. Kedai, 30th Nov. 1912, 1 $ . 



Described from Somaliland. Agrees fairly well with Hampson 's 

 figure, but is yellow, and has no marginal spots on fore wing. 



127. Pericallia hecate, sp. n. (Pi. I. fig. 19.) 



Description. — S . Head and thorax pale brown. Abdomen 

 scarlet above, with transverse black dorsal stripes on the somites : 

 yellow on the underside, with a lateral row of black spots between 

 the red and yellow areas. Legs with tibia? red, tarsi black and 

 ochreous. Fore wing pale brown covered by various waved lines 

 composed of fuscous irroration ; a black spot at end of cell. 

 Subbasal, antemedial, and medial lines indistinct, excurved on 

 median nervure. Postmedial and submarginal lines crenulate, 

 angled outwards between the veins. A series of indistinct 

 marginal black spots. Hind wing pale yellow, almost trans- 

 parent basally ; a black spot above end of cell between veins 5 

 and 6, and a dentate discal line from vein 4 almost to inner 

 margin. Three submarginal black pa,tches, viz., one at angle, 

 one, larger, on each side of vein 2, and one on each side of vein 5. 

 Cilia of hind wing yellow, of fore wing brown. 



Underside of both wings pale yellow, almost hyaline basally, 

 with the markings of the upperside reproduced. 



Habitat. Kedai, 29th Nov. 1911. Exp. 50 mm. 



This form is nearest to P. nephelistis Hampson, fi'om which it 

 differs in the postmedial and subterminal lines of the fore wing 

 being crenulate, and not broken up into spots, as in nephelistis. 



128. Secusio strigata Walker, Cat. ii. p. 559 (1854). 

 Habitat. Masongaleni, 6th and 9th June, 1911, \ <S , 1 5 • 



129. Lacydes gracilis Butler, P. Z. S. 1898, p. 417, pi. xxxii. 

 fig. 4. 



Habitat. Kedai, 12th Jan. 1912, 1 $. 



Subfamily Nyctemerid^. ^ 



130. Deilemera glauce, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 11.) 



Description. — $ . Head and thorax bluish grey, with black 

 markings on the tegulse. Abdomen blue-grey, with black trans- 

 verse stripes at the junction of the somites and a dorsal and 



