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oblique dark striga from middle of costa to reiiiforra ; postmedial 

 line black with a narrow irregular greyish band on its outer side, 

 excurved below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, then excurved 

 and minutely dentate, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; a 

 fine black terminal line. Hind wing greyish suffused with fuscous 

 brown ; the underside with blackish discoidal striga and faint 

 diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Sierra Leone (Morgan), 1 ,5 type ; S. Nigeria, Old Calabar 

 {Samjjson), 1 J . Exp. 20 millim. 



5593. Cretonia atrisigna, n. sp. (Plate CLX. fig. 13.) 



(5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish tinged and irrorated 

 with red-brown ; palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 whitish suffused with dark brown, the tibise and tarsi ringed with 

 white. Fore wing pale rufous thickly irrorated with dark brown ; 

 a dark subbasal point on costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double, 

 sinuons ; a black point in middle of cell and small triangular black 

 discoidal spot ; medial line slight, dark, very slightly angled out- 

 wards below costa, then incurved and with blackish suffusion beyond 

 it below discal fold ; postmedial line dark, excurved below costa 

 and slightly angled inwards in submedian fold, some minute whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; the apical area with some dark suffusion ; 

 subterminal line very faint, whitish, excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of minute black striae ; cilia whitish at tips. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with brown, the cilia paler ; the underside white 

 thickly irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot. 



5 . IVJuch greyer and without any rufous tinge; fore wing with 

 the white subterminal line distinct; hind wing fuscous brown. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Taveta {Rogers)^ 1 c5' , 1 $ fype. Exp. 

 18 millim. 



5594. Cretonia floccifera. (Plate CLX. fig. 14.) 

 Ba7'asa floccifera, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 525 (1896). 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white faintly tinged 

 with red-brown ; palpi blackish except at tips. Pore wing ochreous 

 white very faintly tinged with brown ; subbasal line represented 

 by a blackish striga from costa ; antemedial line with blackish 

 striga from costa, then hardly traceable, oblique, sinuous ; some 

 raised blackish scales on discocellulars and a striga above from 

 costa ; postmedial line very indistinct with a few raised black 

 scales on it, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and 

 below vein 4 ; the termen and cilia with some black scales. Hind 

 wing ochreous white with some brownish hair on inner margin ; 

 the underside slightly irrorated with brown, a brownish postmedial 

 line excurved from costa to vein 4 and ending at tornus. 

 Hah. Bhutan {Dudgeon), 2 (S type. Exp. 2Q millim. 



