162 New Lepidoptera collected by Mr. T. A. Bams 



Abdomen orange with black dorsal spots. Femora and greater part of 

 tibiae orange, rest of legs black. 



Length of fore wing : 23 mm. 



Habitat. — Lufira Eiver, near Likasi Copper Mine, 4,000 feet, 6 

 December, 1918, one 3 . 



LYMANTEIIDAE. 



8. Laelia conjunctifascia sp. nov. 



Allied to ansorgei Boths. 



3 . Upperside with chrome-yellow ground-colour. Fore wing with 

 blackish bands of white black-tipped scales, the spaces between forming 

 narrow bands of ground-colour washed with brick-red. Basal third 

 black excepting a spot of ground-colour at base of inner margin, a 

 brick-red basal spot below cell, and a brick-red costal spot. Discal and 

 postdiscal black bands fused together and bearing brick-red spots on the 

 submedian, on the angle of 4 and 5, and on 6, with a mark on the disco- 

 cellulars. A row of marginal black spots, the apical one elongate, the 

 others increasing in size posteriorly. The basal and distal black areas 

 separated by a curved narrow band washed with brick-red, a similar 

 band separating the postdiscal band from the marginal spots, strongly 

 angled outwards at vein 7. Costa brick-red near the apex. 



Hind wing slightly washed with brick-red, and bearing traces of 

 black submarginal spots. 



Underside chrome-yellow, fore wing suffused with black in the 

 distal half, hind wing with blackish submarginal spots in cellules 2-6. 



? . Extended brick-red on both wings. Fore wing with postdiscal 

 band separated from the discal and with a large loop. Hind wing 

 without markings. 



Antennae black. Head and thorax chrome-yellow washed with 

 brick-red. Abdomen chrome-yellow with black dorsal bands. Femora 

 and tibiae chrome-yellow, tarsi blackish-brown. Palpi chrome-yellow, 

 third segment blackish-brown. 



Length of fore wing : 3 21 mm. 



Habitat. — Kassaka Eiver, Malagarassi Valley, E. Tanganyika, July, 

 1919, one 3 . 



? in B. M. from Solwezi, N. E. Ehodesia, October 26, 1917, H. C. 

 Dollman. Distinguished from ansorgei by the discal and postdiscal 

 bands being broader and merged together, and by the paler underside 

 with extended costal and apical grey-black on the fore wing. 



