550 New Forms of African Lepidoptera 



hyaline ; a crimson basal streak below the submedian. Distal margin 

 flushed with vinaceous-tawny (xxviii). Hind wing ochraceous-buff (xv), 

 slightly crimson on costa and inner margin. 



Underside paler. Fore wing with the cell mostly crimson, the spot 

 small ; the spot in 6 more strongly scaled with crimson, proximal area 

 below vein 3 slightly yellowish. Hind wing more strongly washed with 

 crimson than on upperside. Subcostal area pale-brown. 



Head, thorax and abdomen pale-brown with crimson edgings, the 

 abdomen mostly ringed with orange-red, and ground-colour inclined to 

 grey. Antennae dark bluish-green, palpi crimson. Femora crimson, 

 tibiae and tarsi greyish-green. 



Length of fore wing : 24 mm. 



Habitat. — Belgian Congo : Luvua Eiver, 85 miles north of Lake 

 Mweru, ca. 3,000 feet, April, 1922, two $ $ . 



Aectiidab. 

 18. Teracotona subflava sp. nov. 



Figured in Barns' "Across the Great Craterland to the Congo," 

 pi. lxxx, fig. 4, 1923. 



Allied to subterminata Hmpsn., but differs in the patagia being 

 without black spots, and in the yellow hind wing. 



$ . Upperside of fore wing with ochraceous-grey ground-colour, 

 much sprinkled with mummy-brown, more especially in the distal and 

 basal costal areas. A heavy distal line bent outwards at lower angle 

 of cell, a thinner postdiscal line parallel to it, a trace of a submarginal. 

 A black discocellular dot, a similar and larger dot opposite it in cellule 5 

 near the margin, a similar and less distinct dot near tornus above the 

 submedian. Hind wing pale orange-yellow (iii), darker at the costa and 

 the inner margin. A black discocellular spot, submarginal black marks 

 in lb, lc, 2, 5 and 7, the one in 7 indistinct. 



Underside of fore wing ochraceous-brown flushed with vinaceous, 

 with a more or less strongly crimson basal costal area ; black dots as 

 on upperside. Hind wing as on upperside. 



Head and thorax light greyish-olive (xlvi) ; antennae and palpi 

 blackish-brown ; femora and tibiae grey-brown, fore and mid-femora 

 crimson above; tarsi black ringed with grey-white, end tarsal segment 

 with orange tuft. Abdomen pale orange-yellow, ventral surface 

 ochraceous-grey, a series of large subdorsal black spots and of small 

 subventral spots. 



