6 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 9. NIO 11. 



straight blackish discal line from the middle of inner margin 

 to costa about 7 mm. from apex; hind wing påle yellowish 

 without markings, tinged with reddish at anal angle; abdomen 

 påle as hind wing. Expanse 55 mm. 



The § is larger and a little darker; hind wing on both 

 sides and abdomen being påle fawn colour; före wing in the 

 cell, at inner margin and at termen in 2 and 3 with obsolete 

 yellowish patches. Expanse 74 mm. 



Nyassa Land: Mlanje; S. A. Neave. — British Museum. 



Pachymeta (Pachymetana) Lamborni n. sp. — J". Fröns 

 brownish; liead, thorax, abdomen and wings dark sooty 

 blackish brown; före wing long and narrow; transverse lines 

 very obsolete; a minute whitish dot or streak at end of cell, 

 disc suffused with some grey scales in 4 and 5, an obsolete 

 subterminal series of greyish streak between vein 1 — 8, tornus 

 completely rounded. Hind wing nearly triangulär, costa 

 arched at base, apex rather acute; termen nearly straight 

 distinctly waved; tornus angled; no markings. Under side of 

 both wings paler without markings, clothed with grey hairs 

 at inner margin of hind wing. Expanse 54 mm. 



$ much larger with the apex of före wing acute and 

 produced. Hind wing white with broad blackish terminal 

 börder broadest at the apex and produced to middle of costa; 

 termen convex and even. Expanse 95 mm. 



Lagos District: Oni; W. A. Lamborne. — Hope Collec- 

 tion, Oxford. 



Agrees in structural characters with Pachymetana custo- 

 dita Strand and differs from typical Pachymeta by vein 8 

 of före wing being emitted from the stal k of 6 and 7. 



Pachymeta (?) Neavei n. sp. — J". Head, thorax and 

 före wing above very dark violet brown, more or less suf- 

 fused with rufous red scales ; breast, abdomen, hind wing above 

 and both wings below påle reddish yellow; legs reddish brown 5 

 före wing above at base to middle of inner margin and at 

 costa behind the cell to near apex broadly irrorated with 

 reddish; transverse lines dark and rather obsolete, a large 

 silvery spöt at end of cell; subterminal line obsolete and 

 interrupted; the areas 1 b — 5 suffused near termen with glossy 

 gray scales; costa of hind wing to vein 7 dark brown; före 



