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5. Diacrisia maculosa Stoll, Form macularia Walker. 

 Habitat. Mombasa, 21st March. 



6. Diacrisia jacksoni Rothschild. 

 Habitat. Keclai, 25th November. 



7. Diacrisia epicaste, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 5.) 



Description. — J . Head and collar grey, the latter with a bright 

 orange fringe, thorax pale yellow ; patagia streaked with grey. 

 Abdomen orange above, ochreous underneath, with a lateral row 

 of small black spots. The five middle somites of the abdomen 

 black dorsally, orange laterally. 



Fore wing pale cream-yellow ; the interspaces between the veins 

 with grey streaks ; an orange discoidal spot ; cilia and inner 

 margin orange : hind wing pale cream-colour, cilia oi-ange. 



This form differs from all other species of Diacrisia which I have 

 seen in its deep black abdomen. 



Habitat. Masongaleni, 18th and 20th April. Expanse 46 mm. 



8. Amsacta evadne, sp. n. (PL I. fig. 4.) 



Description. — d 1 • Head, thorax, and wings white ; costaof fore 

 wing cream-coloured. Abdomen, 1st somite and ventral area 

 white, remaining somites yellow ; the five middle somites with 

 black bands dorsally. 



Fore wing with four small black spots in interspace 1 : one below 

 median nervure, one below middle of vein 2, and two above 

 vein 1. A black spot at base of interspace 2, and one at apex of 

 discoidal cell. Two parallel rows of minute black spots distal ly, 

 and a row of marginal black spots between the veins. No black 

 spots on costa. 



Hind wing : a black spot at apex of cell, and another beyond it 

 submarginally on vein 6, A V-shaped black spot at anal angle 

 with two minute specks inside it. 



This form is nearest to Amsacta flavizonata Hampson, from 

 North Nigeria, which form has no black spots on the hind wing. ' 



Habitat. Kedai, 17th November. Expanse 40 mm. 



9. Teracotoxa rhodophtEA Walker. 

 Habitat. Kedai, 25th November. 



10. Argina cribraria Olerck. 

 Habitat. Mombasa, 30th October. 



1 1 . Rhodogastria bubo Walker. 

 Habitat. Kedai, 21st January. 



