730 LT.-COL. J. M. FAWCETT ON 



inner margin. Underside coloured the same as upperside, but 

 much paler ; subapical area of fore wing bright pink. 



Habitat. Meru, taken by Lady Colvile, 1 $ . Exp. 34 mm. 



214. CiDARIA PROCNE, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 8.) 



Desc7^i]ytion. — J • Head and thorax red-brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous, with fine blackish transverse bands on the somites. 

 Fore wing : basal area pale ochreous up to the antemedial line, 

 Avhich is a double white line, evenly curved from eosta to inner 

 margin. Medial area of wing between ante- and postmedial 

 lines red-brown. Postmedial line consisting of double white 

 lines angled outwardly between veins 3 and 4, the outer line of 

 Avhich is so broad that it gives the appearance of a broad white 

 band. A dark red-brown subapical patch, followed by a small 

 ochreous apical spot. Terminal area ochreous, with an indistinct 

 row of white spots. Hind wing pale ochreous, with some traces 

 of a postmedial line on the inner margin above anal angle. 

 Underside ochreous : medial area of fore wing fuscous. 



Hahitat. Meru, taken by Lady Colvile, 1 S ■ Exp. 30 mm. 



These two forms, which present some analogy to one another, 

 are nearest to C molata Felder. 



215. Rhodometra sacraria Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 863 

 (1767). 



= lahcla Cramer, Pap. Exot. i, p. 129, pi. clxxxi. fig. D (1777). 



Habitat. Kedai, 1912, 15th Jan., 1 5 [sacraria); 11th March, 

 1 $ (lahda) ; 7th March, 1 J (labcla). Masongaleni, 1st March, 

 1 (^ (lahda) ; 24th May, 1 $ (sacraria). 



The sacraria form has the fore wing ochreous, with a brown 

 band from apex to middle of inner margin ; in the lahda form 

 the wing is pale primrose and the band is crimson. 



216. E.HABDOMETRA PLECTARIA Guen. 



Habitat. Meru, taken by Lady Colvile, 1 J . 



217. Camptogramma natalata Walker.. 



Habitat. Kedai, 1912, 12th Jan., 1 c? ; 16th Jan., 2 ?. 

 Masongaleni, 1912, 2nd April, 1 J; 14th June, 1 $ . . 



Subfamily Acidaljin^;. 



218. IdjEA niobe, sp. n. 



DescriptioH. — 5 . Pale ochreous irrorated with fuscous scales. 

 The frons red-brown. Fore wing: antemedial line indistinct, 

 angled outwardly on median nervure. A. fuscous striga at end 

 of cell. Postmedial line outwardly oblique to vein 6, thence 

 incurved and irregularly dentate to inner margin. A prominent 

 subterminal line excurved on veins 7 and 6, and thence irre- 

 gvdarly dentate to inner margin, with two indistinct diiiused 



