New Geometridae and Dioptidae in Joicey Collection 265 



above black, beneath mixed with yellow. Legs grey, the coxae and 

 femora beneath white. Abdomen black-grey, with two rows of lateral 

 white spots and with the venter yellow. 



Fore wing black with two yellow bands placed nearly as in continua 

 Walk., but of a deeper, more golden hue ; first band moderately broad, 

 with distal indentations on M and SM 2 , not reaching costa, in front of 

 SC (which remains narrowly black) only represented by a narrow wedge, 

 with long-produced baseward point, succeeded by interrupted yellow 

 scaling almost to base ; outer band very small, anteriorly not reaching 

 SC 5 , posteriorly tapering to a point at E 3 , but succeeded by a large dot 

 behind E 3 . Hind wing black, in abdominal region more olive-brownish ; 

 a rather broad band much as in continua, but not followed by orange 

 spot at termen ; no orange spot at apex. 



Fore wing beneath with the yellow bands a little lighter and more 

 extended distally, then much broader, the outer continuous from SC 5 

 to M 2 near termen ; proximal band almost reaching costa and with a 

 large extension to the base, leaving black the costal edge, the area 

 behind the cell, and some slight marks at the base of C and in cell 

 behind proximal part of SC ; a white spot at base of subcostals and 

 three subapical white spots, the middle one (between SC 5 and E 1 ) the 

 longest. Hind wing beneath predominantly yellow, looking more 

 olivaceous where the black parts of the fore wing show through ; a 

 black spot between the medians at their origin ; some irroration before 

 fold and a streak behind ; distal border black, at costa and behind M 

 broadly, in middle very narrowly ; three white subapical spots and a 

 fourth (equally subterminally) between the medians. 



Cameroons : Bitje, Ja Eiver, 2,000 feet, wet season, April to May, 

 1912 (G. L. Bates). 



The underside is totally different from that of the continua Walk, 

 group, rather recalling that of cunaxa Druce. 



20. Gallioratis abraxas (Feld.) grandis subsp. nov. 



$ , 84 mm. 



Apart from its much larger size, differs from a. abraxas Feld. 2 

 (Eeise Novara, tab. c. fig. 18) in having the terminal black spots of the 

 hind wing larger anteriorly than posteriorly, whereas in the Natal race 

 they become smaller anteriorly, or the apical one may be entirely wanting. 

 Other differences appear inconstant. 



Mlanje, Nyasaland. Type and paratype in coll. Joicey. 



