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1908 : Sept. 25,-1 ? . 1909 : Mar. 14,-2 $ ; Mar. 15,-1 $ ; 

 Mar. 20,— 1 2 ; Apr. 8—1 d (type), 1 2 (B.M.); Nov. 6,-1 $, 

 ab. 1 (B.M.). Kxp. 22-26 millim. 



Lyncestis diascota, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 50, c? .) 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with some grey ; 

 the teguhe with black band near tips, the abdomen dorsal ly 

 suffused with fuscous from near base to beyond middle ; tarsi 

 bla.ek ringed with white. Fore wing white slightly tinged v\ ith 

 grey, a broad oblique fuscous grey shade from costa towards apex 

 to inner margin beyond middle, a slight black streak below basal 

 half of costa, and the veins of terminal area streaked with black; 

 the basal area with grey shades along median nervure and vein 1 ; 

 a slight oblique dark antemedial line from cell to inner margin; 

 a slight black streak in end of cell ; cilia tinged with brown. 

 Hind wing white, the veins towards termen streaked with black, 

 the apex tinged with brown ; a blackish terminal line. Underside 

 of fore wing suffused with reddish brown ; hind wing with the 

 costal area irrorated with reddish brown, a subterminal shade 

 from costa to vein 2. 



5 . Greyer; hind wing with the terminal area broadly suffused 

 with black. 



1908 : Sept. 16,-1 d (fype) ; Sept. 26,-1 J . 1909 : Mar. 19, 

 —1 d ; Sept. 20,-1 2 (type). Exp. 28 millim. 



Lyncestis amphix Cram. 

 Year ? : Mar. 20,-1 d . 



Sphingomorpha chlorea Cram. 



Mandera.— 1908 : Nov. 17.— 1 6. 1909: Mar. 28,-1 $; 

 Apr. 5,-1 J ; June 6,-1 c? , 2 $ . 1910 : Feb. 9,-1 2 • 

 Gan Libbah.— 1908 : June 24,-1 <S ; June 26,-1 ? . 

 Hargaisa. — 1909 : Nov.,— 1 d" . 



Pasipeda sambestta Wlk. 



1909 : Apr. 24,-1 J ; May 21,-1 ? ; July 6,-1 J . 



Oglasa cornuta Hmpsn. 



1908 : Nov. 17,-1 $ . 1909 : Mar. 14,-1 $ ; Mar, 28,-1 J . 



Asplenia rubrescens, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 1, c? .) 

 c? 2 • Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish and 

 a few dark brown scales ; pectus and legs whitish, the fore tarsi 

 ringed with fuscous ; abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface 

 whitish. Fore wing bright rufous with slight dark irroration, a 

 whitish shade tinged with rufous just beyond the cell ; slight sub- 

 basal blackish points on costa and in the cell ; antemedial line 

 black, waved, double at costa ; a small black annulus filled in Avith 

 white in the cell towards extremity, and a slight discoidal lunule 



