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ance in nature ; the figure, however, shows the presence of small cell- 

 dots, and less yellow costa and slightly narrower borders, which widen 

 rather than narrow at tornus. 



23. Zamarada acosmeta sp. nov. (Text fig. 16). 



16. Zamarada acosmeta ? . 



? , 30—32 mm. 



Head light brown, the face, vertex and base of antenna more or 

 less strongly mixed with red-brown ; palpus, excepting the first joint, 

 somewhat dark-spotted. Thorax and abdomen very pale ochreous- 

 grey with a tinge of green (especially dorsally) ; metathorax and 

 abdomen with ill-defined reddish dorsal stripe or row of spots. 



Fore wing very pale translucent-green, the wing-membrane show- 

 ing violet reflections ; grey irroration coarse but not very dense, mostly 

 arranged so as vaguely to suggest strigulae ; costal margin inclining 

 to buff, rather heavily dark-spotted anteriorly ; celldot very minute ; 

 distal border purple-grey, excessively narrow, the crenulate reddish 

 (in part black-mixed) line which bounds it proximally almost touching 

 the termen between the veins posteriorly to R 2 and being nowhere 

 more than 1 mm. distant therefrom. 



Hind wing similar, except costally ; terminal line in anterior part 

 less dentate proximally on veins. Under side with the buff costal 

 margin only dark irrorated proximally ; distal borders blackish, shaped 

 as above. 



East Tanganyika, Urindi District : Upper Ruvubu River, July — 

 August, 1919 (type) ; Lumpungu River, Malagarassi Valley, July, 1919 

 (paratype). 



