442 NOCTUIDiE, 



6790. Risoba sticticraspis, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXVI. fig. 7.) 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; frons with black 

 bar ; pectus and legs white tinged with broAvn, the fore legs 

 blackish with the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged 

 with brown, the dorsal crests black. Fore wing grey suffused with 

 red-brown, a patch of white suiSusion from costa beyond middle to 

 beyond lower angle of cell, the veins with slight blackish streaks ; a 

 white patch from base of costa to inner margin before middle, its 

 outer edge defined by a black line, and with white fascia from it on 

 inner margin to just beyond the postmedial line; an autemedial 

 black striga at inner margin ; a black point in middle of cell, the 

 reniform slightly defined by blackish on inner side only ; a medial 

 black striga at inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, bent out- 

 wards below costa, minutely dentate below vein 6, incurved below 

 vein 4 and with black striga at inner margin ; subterminal line 

 strong, black, incurved, with its outer edge minutely dentate and 

 defined by white from costa to vein 6, then very indistinct, 

 minutely dentate and angled inwards in submedian fold ; an oblique 

 black shade from apex and a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 chequered whitish and black on apical half, brownish towards 

 tornus. Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown, the terminal 

 area suffused with brown ; cilia white tinged with brown ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Br, E. Africa, Taveta {Rogers), 3 § type. E^xy. 26 

 millim. 



Genus MACEOBAEASA, nov. 



Type, M. xa-ntholojjha. 



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

 of head and broadly scaled in front, the 3rd moderate, porreet ; frons smooth, 

 with tuft of hair above ; eyes largo, round ; antennas of male with fascicles of 

 long cilia, the basal joint and vertex of head between antennae with tufts of 

 hair ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, 

 the metathorax with spreading crest ; fore tibiae fringed on both sides with 

 long hair, the mid and hind tibite moderately fringed, the fore and mid tarsi 

 with slight tufts of hair on the joints ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only 

 and with lateral tufts of hair on basal segments. Fore wing with the cosJ,a 

 nearly straight, the apex rectangular, the termen strongly excurved, crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anas- 

 tomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 

 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with oblique dark band beyond the autemedial 



line from cell to inner margin xantholopha. 



B. Foro wing without oblique dark band beyond the ante- 



medial line xanthostida. 



