MOTHS FROM B. E. AFRICA, 733 



chequered with a marginal sei'ies of round ochreous spots. 

 Hind wing ochreous, inclining to fulvous along inner margin, 

 with faint traces of striation. Underside of both wings ochreous, 

 striated on and near the costa. 



5 . Yery similar to male, rather larger, and with the pink 

 suffusion more prominent ; legs not so thickly clothed with hair ; 

 underside of abdomen pale ochreous with a dark lateral longi- 

 tudinal streak. 



Habitat. Kedai, 8th Dec. 1911, 1 $ ; 15th Jan. 1912, 1 6 . 

 Exp., S 30, 2 36 mm. 



This form is nearest to Selagclia transversa Holland, from the 

 Gold Coast, but differs from it in the striation being spotted and 

 not streaked, and in there being no fulvous patches. 



Family CossiD^. 



228. DUOMITUS PINDARUS, sp. n. 



Descrijytion. — J. Head, thorax, antennae, and legs pale red- 

 brown. Thorax and metathorax sprinkled with white hairs ; 

 abdomen pale i-ed-brown, with some dorsal crests on three basal 

 somites. Fore wing pale red-brown, the inner area irrorated 

 with black strigee. A black patch on the costa from base to near 

 middle, extending downwaixls tlirough the cell to median nervure. 

 Immediately below this patch a prominent deep black band in 

 the shape of a tent-peg (? claviform) runs along median nervure 

 and below vein 2, ending in a quadrilatei'al black spot between 

 veins 2 and 1, and touching both veins. Below this streak is a 

 white spot with a few striations on it. A long black spot on 

 costa above end of cell, which becomes an indistinct diffused 

 patch between veins 6 and 2. Outer half of cell and costal area 

 above it (between the two black spots) whitish. Some black 

 streaks between the nervures on the subtei-minal area. Hind 

 wing white, with a narrow fuscous terminal band ; cilia fuscous. 

 Underside of fore wing pale fuscous, with some raised white scales 

 at base of cell. Hind wing white, the costa fulvous, no striation. 



$ . Larger than male, similarly marked except that the black 

 longitudinal band of the male is divided into two parts by a 

 white spot. 



Habitat. Kedai, 25th Nov. 1911, 16, 1 ?. Exp., 6 40, 

 5 44 mm. 



This form is allied to Duomitus steniptera Hampson, P.Z. S. 

 1916, p. 166, described from Somaliland, but difiers from it in a 

 good many 'points, the chief being (1) its larger size, (2) the 

 ground-colour being red-brown, not white, and (3) the presence 

 of the prominent longitudinal black band below the median, 

 nervure. 



Family L as i o c A M P i D^. 



229. Chilena DO^TALDSONI Holland. 

 Habitat. Meru, taken by Lady Colvile, If?- 



