AURIVILLIUS, AFRICAN LASIOCAMPIDAE, 7 



wing below with several patches of brownish scales. Expanse 

 40 mm. 



The female is larger with more elongate and more acu- 

 minate före wings and has only a dark spöt at end of the 

 cell of före wing; the ground colour is somewhat paler and 

 the veins of the under side of före wing distinctly reddish in 

 terminal part. Expanse 54 mm. 



Nyassaland: Mlanje, June; S. A. Neave. — British Mu- 

 seum. 



Agrees with P. Clarki in having vein 8 of före wing 

 from beyond the cell. 



Gonometa imperialis n. sp. — $. Upper side: ground 

 colour ochreous-yellow; head and thorax tinged with viola- 

 ceous brown; hind wing unicolorous; före wing with the ground 

 colour somewhat darker, tinged with violaceous-brown at base 

 and with 5 broad waved transverse bands of the same colour, 

 two across the cell and three behind the cell, the fifth nearly 

 straight irregular broader at costa, obsolete a t inner margin 

 and in area 5; termen more or less suffused with violaceous 

 brown between the veins. Under side: both wings ochreous 

 yellow, tinged with violaceous near apex and ät termen; ab- 

 domen broadly suffused with violaceous. Veins 4 and 5 of 

 hind wing on a rather long stalk. Expanse 170 mm. 



Gold Coast: Gambaga. — Dr. Bury. — CoUection of the 



R. Hon. W. ROTHSCHILD. 



Nearly allied to O. Sjöstedti AuRiv. but still larger and 

 easily distinguished by the dark transverse stripes of the före 

 wing. The ground colour of the hind wing nearly quite the 

 same as in G. Sjöstedti. 



Opisthodontia superba n. sp. — $. Palpi and sides of 

 head dark hoary grey; forehead and tegulae violet grey; 

 patagiae and wings golden orange, paler in the middle of 

 före wing, abdomen and inner margin of hind wing whitish; 

 abdomen below påle reddish brown; före wing above with a 

 strongly curved subbasal transverse, nearly even line, which 

 begins at costa 5 mm. from base and ends at middle of inner 

 margin; a nearly straight brown line from costa behind middle 

 to vein 6, followed in right angle by a series of 6 fine inter- 

 nervular slightly curved streaks from vein 6 to inner margin 



