MOTHS FROM B. E. AFRICA. 719 



Snbbasal line indistinct, incnrv^ed below subcostal nervure. Ante- 

 medial line a double pale waved line with ferruginous centre 

 from costa to inner margin. Postmediai line fine, black, and 

 dentate, inAvardly defined by white, and situated on a prominent 

 black dentate band, strongly incurved below vein 4 to inner 

 margin. A pale whitish subterminal line, dentate on the veins. 

 A terminal series of black spots. Cilia red-biown (both wings). 

 Hind wing striated on basal area. Two parallel black dentate 

 lines across the disc from vein 6 to inner margin, highly angled 

 outwardly between veins 4 and 5, the inner line defined inwardly 

 by white. A subterminal white dentate line and marginal black 

 spots. Underside ochreous, with fuscous irrorations and double 

 fuscous subtermiufil bands. 



Habitat. Kedai, 5th Jan. 1912, 1 J ; 30th Jan., 1 §. 



There are four specimens from Nyasaland (unnamed as yet) in 

 the B. M. Collection which are near this species, but they lack 

 the red suffusion and are fuscous black thi-oughout. 



170. Proruaca recurrens Hampson, Ann S. Afr. Mus. ii. 

 p. 360(1902). 



Habitat. Kedai, 20th Nov. 1912, 1 (5 ; 4th March, 1912, 1 J. 

 Only the type-specimen is in the B. M. Collection. 



171. Catephta poliochroa Hampson, P. Z. S. 1916, p. 130, 

 pi. i. fig. 47, 9 . 



Habitat. Kedai, 27th Nov., 1911, 2 $. 



The above specimens agree pracracally with the figure of poli- 

 ockroa (which was described from Somaliland) in coloration. 



172. Catephia sciras, sp. n. (PI. 1. fig. 35.) 



Descrii^tion. — ^ . Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing light 

 grey. Palpi, pectus, aiid legs with pinkish ?;uirusion. Antennae 

 red, ciliated. Fore wing : subbasal line black from costa to 

 vein 1. Antemedial line incurved on subcostal nervure, oblique 

 to submedian fold, then angled inwards at vein 1 ; before this 

 line there is a black area below median nervure to inner margin. 

 Claviform red-brown, defined by black, and connected at its 

 extremity with potstmedial line. Orbicular and reniform whitish 

 defined by black, where they ai-e joined by lines to blackish 

 patches on the costa. The area between the reniform and post- 

 medial line whitish. The postmediai line black, running some 

 distance along subcostal nervure, izicurved at discal fold, angled 

 outwards at veins 4 and 3, then incurved to submedian fold, and 

 thence straight to inner margin. Subterminal line angled 

 sharply outwards on veins 7, 6, 4, and 3, then incurved to inner 

 ma,rgin, and beyond it a pale yellow tornal spot. Between the 

 postmediai and subterminal lines is a, prominent greyish fuscous 

 band almost reaching the former line. A fine waved black 

 terminal line. Cilia grev. Hind wing hyaline white with strong 

 iridescent gloss : cilia white. 



