110 LT.-COL. J. M. FAWCETT OX 



NOTODONTID.«. 



106. Stauropus dasychirioides Butler, 



Habitat. Keclai, 25th November. 



Only the type specimen of this species is at present in the 

 British Museum, and Sir George Hampson expressed some doubt 

 about its belonging to the genus Stauropus. 



107. Phalera leydexburgi Distant. 



Habitat. Kedai, 25th November ; Masongaleni, 4th March. 



L.ASIOCAMPID.E. 



108. Chilena coxttxua Aurivillius. 

 Habitat. Masongaleni, 25th May. 



109. Ceratopacha gemmata Distant. 



Habitat. Kedai, 17th November, $ ; 25th November, 6 . 



The female differs from the male in being larger, rather paler, 

 and being without the black abdomen ; but has the black brush 

 of hairs on the costa of the hind wing underneath. 



110. Ceratopacha decora, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 32.) 



Description — 2 . Head, legs, thorax, and antennae pale cream- 

 coloured. Abdomen yellow above, white beneath, thickly covered 

 with hair ; anal somite whitish. 



Fore wing bright ochreous. An indistinct white curved basal 

 line ; a waved whitish antemedial line defined outwardly by dark 

 ochreous, from costa to inner margin. A black spot at lower end 

 of cell. A waved oblique postmedial whitish line, bent inwards 

 on costa and defined inwardly by dark ochreous, from costa to 

 inner margin. An irregular lunular submarginal white line, also 

 bent inwardly on costa and defined inwardly by dark ochreous. 



Hind wing paler ochreous basally, with a fuscous striga from 

 costa to end of cell. A golden yellow distal band from costa to 

 inner margin. Beyond this band the marginal area is white with 

 an indistinct ochreous band from costa to vein 3. Cilia ochreous. 

 Underside very pale ochreous ; fore wing unmarked, hind wing 

 with a faint indication of the yellow band of the upperside and 

 having a black brush of hairs on the basal half of the costa. 



Habitat. Kedai, 18th March. Expanse 60 mm. 



Differs from gemmata in the whitish lines of the fore wing 

 being waved, and not straight as in that species, and the hind 

 wing has a prominent golden yellow band which is absent from 

 gemmata. 



111. Pachymeta flavia, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 14.) 



Description. — rf . Head and thorax grey-brown with a purple 

 tinge. Abdomen reddish ochreous ; antennas ochreous. Fore 

 wing : base fulvous, median area purplish grey, crossed by triple 

 antemedial and postmedial dark waved lines from costa to inner 



