148 New Lepidoptera collected by Mr. T. A. Barns 



the fore wing, excepting the tornal region, being irregularly suffused 

 with bright ochreous and reddish, the median area mostly bright red- 

 purple with pale patches at costa and blackish lines ; celldots with 

 a broad white circumscription except at proximal edge, where there 

 are only a few white scales ; the white again denned by a fine blackish 

 line; oblique streak along E 3 thick, variegated with purple and 

 reddish. 



Underside whitish, with the dark marking rather strongly expressed 

 in glossy grey. 



Congo Beige : Mikeno Mountain, N. Kivu, October, 1919. (T. A. 

 Barns.) Type in coll. Joicey. 



12. Asthenotricha straba sp. nov. (pi. XVIII, fig. 11). 



$ , 25-26 mm. 



Very similar to the preceding, differing as follows : — 



Distal margins slightly more crenulate. Ground-colour more 

 uniformly suffused on both wings with bright ochreous. Fore wing 

 with the lines finer ; an angulated subbasal line sharply expressed 

 (subbasal area suffused and blurred in semidivisa) ; median area more 

 broadly posteriorly, the suffusions from cellspot to hind margin 

 predominantly black ; celldot much smaller, placed close to the 

 proximal margin of the white spot; postmedian line forming a V- 

 shaped angle outward on E l ; longitudinal line of distal area very 

 thin, blackish ; a fine, uninterrupted terminal line. Hind wing with 

 the hair tuft highly developed, bright ochreous, only with a few dark 

 hairs ; proximal band irrorated with blackish ; terminal line as on 

 fore wing. 



Congo Beige: Mikeno Mountain, N. Kivu, October, 1919 (type). 

 Tanganyika: Niragongo Volcano, Kivu, September, 1919. 



I have also seen this species from Mount Kenya and Mount 

 Aberdare. 



13. Asthenotricha malostigma sp. nov. (Text fig. 19). 



$ , 29 mm. 



Head, thorax and abdomen pale grey, the collar somewhat more 

 brownish. 



Fore wing broad ; glossy grey (of the same colour as Hydrelia 

 costalis Auriv., from Kilimanjaro) with the markings white; ante- 

 median line thicker and more distinct anteriorly and posteriorly than 



