ETHIOPICA. PAEOMrHALE. 421 



Sect. II. Antenna of male serrate and fasciculate; proboscis rather stronger. 



4105. Ethiopica asteropa, n. sp. 



J. Head and thorax dark brown tinged with purple and 

 mixed with some white ; palpi and legs black-brown, the tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen yellowish brown. Fore wing deep 

 purplish irrorated with greyish ; subbasal line slight, whitish, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line slight, whitish, waved ; 

 orbicular a smalt round white spot with yellowish centre defined 

 by blackish ; reniform with yellowish centre defined by blackish 

 and surrounded by white points, constricted at middle ; postmedial 



Fig. 112. — Ethio-pica asteropa, (5-1- 

 line indistinct, dark, slightly defined by white on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; traces of a subterminal series of 

 whitish points. Hind wing pure white, the veins slightly tinged 

 with brown towards tcrmen ; a fine dark terminal line ; the under- 

 side with the costal area irrorated with brown, a small blackish 

 discoidal spot. 



IJab. Br. Cbntr. Africa, Likoma (de Jersey), 1 (S type. Exp. 

 21 millim. 



Genus PAROMPHALE, nov. 



Type, P. c<Eca. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and moderately scaled in front, the 3rd short; frons 

 with small truncate conical prominence with raised edges and corneous plate 

 below it; eyes large, roiinded ; autennse of male ciliated; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the protliorax without crest, the metathorax with decumbent 

 crest ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 I'rom near angle of ceil ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from unper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4106. Paromphale caeca. 



Caradrina cceca, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) ix. p. 421 (1902). 



S . Head and thorax rufous slightly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 palpi at base, pectus and legs whitish, the tarsi black ringed with 



