278 NOCTUIDall. 



8084. Cerocala masaica, n. sp. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 18.) 



Head and base o£ tegulse creamy white tinged with rufous ; 

 paljji slightly irrorated with brown above ; frons rufous above ; 

 antennte with the shaft white ringed with brown, the branches 

 blackish ; thorax grey-brown with a silvery gloss ; pectus and legs 

 white tinged with rufous, the fore tibiae in front and the tarsi 

 dark brown, the latter ringed with white ; abdomen whitish 

 suffused with rufous. Fore wing red-brown, the area below the 

 costa white irrorated with red-brown, the medial area and band 

 beyond the cell whitish suffused with rufous, the terminal area 

 pale grey irrorated with brown ; a V-shaped silver mark from 

 middle of cell to above inner margin before the antemedial line, 

 angled inwards in submedian fold where there is some black before 

 and be^^ond it ; antemedial line black, oblique, obsolescent on 

 costal area and slightly defined on outer side by white ; orbicular 

 and reniform silvery defined by black, the former small, rou.nd, the 

 latter narrow and open above and below ; the band beyond the 

 cell oblique from costa to the subterminal line at vein 2, defined 

 on outer side by the black postmedial line, which is slightly 

 incurved to vein 2, then retracted to lower edge of reniform, 

 obliquely incurved to inner margin, more or less approximated to 

 the antemedial line and slightly defined on inner side by white ; a 

 slightly incurved silver line on the red-brown postmedial area from 

 bslow costa to vein 3, then interrupted and obliquely curved from 

 below the sinus of the postmedial line to inner margin, some short 

 black streaks beyond it before the subterminal line, which is slight 

 and whitish, incurved at discal fold and almost obsolete below 

 vein 3 ; a brown terminal line ; cilia pale red-brown at base, 

 whitish at tips. Hind wing whitish, the basal and inner areas 

 suffused with reddish brown ; a difftised dark discoidal bar with 

 whitish patch beyond it ; a broad diffused fuscous shade from costa 

 to vein 2, defined on outer side by whitish ; the terminal area 

 fuscous ; cilia white tinged Avith red-brown. Underside white ; 

 fore wing with the discab area tinged with brown, the orbicular 

 and reniform fuscous, an oblique fuscous postmedial band 

 expanding towards costa, the termen suffused with fuscous ; hind 

 wing with some dark brown on costa near base, a streak in middle 

 of cell and large discoidal patch, a sinuous band from costa beyond 

 middle to tornus, broad at costa and narrowing to tornus, the 

 termen dark from apex to vein 2. 



Sah. Br. E. Africa, Kilimakiu (Crawshai/), 1 c? type, 

 Machakos (C/'aivsJiay), 1 $, Kiu (Cratvshm/), 1 §, Nairobi 

 {Betton, Anderson), 3 c? , Muani (Betfon)/ 1 $. ^^j^. 30- 

 34 millim. 



8085. Cerocala contraria, (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 19.) 



Foaphila contraria, Wlk. xxxiv. 990 (186.5). 



Bolina revtiha, Wllgrn. Of v. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1875, p. 116. 



Head creamy white Avith a broAvn band above frons ; antennae 



