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Length of fore wing : 18 mm. 



Habitat. — Kugege Forest, 8,000 feet, December, 1921, two $ $ ; 

 Karissimbi Forest, Kivu, October, 1919, one $ ; Mikeno Volcano, 

 Kivu, October, 1919, one $ . 



This species is without the areole in the fore wing. Vein 10 

 originates from the angle of the cell, is free, curved outwards, and 

 approximates to 11 posteriorly. 



The proboscis is aborted in two specimens and in the other two it is 

 apparently absent. This occurs in clara Holl. where it is sometimes 

 fully developed. 



This species is placed by Hampson in the North American genus 

 Seirarctia, but there are ample grounds for proving that Seirarctia 

 is well removed from Teracotona. The genitalia of Seirarctia is quite 

 different to several Teracotona we have examined. We may mention 

 that in a $ and $ Seirarctia echo examined by us, vein 10 is stalked with 

 9, so evidently the position of this vein is not a reliable generic character. 



19. Teracotona pallida sp. nov. 



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

 pi. Ixxx, fig. 6, 1923. 



Apparently allied to subflava nov., but is larger and of strikingly 

 paler colour. It may possibly prove to be an aberration. 



$. Upperside groundcolour cream-buff (xxx). Fore wing mottled 

 with greyish-black strigae, principally in the discal area ; dark disco- 

 cellular and submarginal spots as in allied forms. Hind wing with 

 discocellulars outlined with black, and a slight orange suffusion in the 

 submedian area. 



Underside ground-colour as on upperside. Fore wing very faintly 

 mottled ; discocellular spot more distinct, a slight orange suffusion in 

 the cell. Hind wing as on upperside. 



Antennae dark brown, grey-white at the base. Head and thorax 

 ochraceous - grey, palpi blackish - brown. Legs brownish - ochreous, 

 femora reddish-orange above, middle and hind tarsi blackish-brown- 

 Abdomen orange-yellow with black rings. 



Length of fore wing : 20 mm. 



Habitat. — Bugege Forest, 8,000 feet, December, 1921, one $ . 



20. Teracotona multistrigata sp. nov. 



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

 pi. Ixxx, fig. 7, 1923. 



