256 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



In the type the branches of the antenna are shorter than the shaft is broad, 

 in the Lokoja specimen the longest branches are slightly longer than the shaft is 

 broad, and in the other two specimens the branches of the central segments are 

 decidedly longer, though not so long as in L. a. xanthopis. 



b. L. afra xanthopis Hamps. (1910) (text-fig. 8) 



LeucopMebia xanthopis Hampson, Proa. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1910, p. 461, pi. 39, fig. 15, (J (S.E. 

 Katanga, Congo). 



Valvarum processus dorsalis parvus, harpa dentata. 



Hab. Katanga, south-east corner of Congo. In the Tring Museum six S <5 

 from : Mpuapua, German East Africa (Dr. Baxter) ; Mohoroni, Nandi country, 

 July 1903 (F. J. Jackson); Mbale, near Mt. Elgon, April 1909; Mubande, 

 Buekulla, Uganda, March 1899 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Uganda. 



The branches of the central segments of the antenna are much longer than the 

 shaft is broad. Frons and occiput contrast strongly. The creamy central stripe of 

 the forewing is broad and distally more or less strongly dentate on the veins. The 

 basi-dorsal process of the clasper is small, and the apical margin of the harpe 

 dentate in all the specimens (text-fig. S, taken from type). The teeth of the 

 harpe, and the lobes of the basi-dorsal process are individually variable in number. 



c. L- afra rosulenta subsp. nov. 



Valvarum processus dorsalis parvus, harpa dentata ; antennae breviter pecti- 

 natae ; caput fere nnicolor. 



Hab. Three $ S from Mohoro, German East Africa, May 1902. 



The occiput and prothorax are pink, and contrast but little with the frons; 

 mesothorax also deeper pink than usual. The median stripe of the forewing pale 

 yellow, narrower than in xanthopis, not dentate distally, the stigma well within 

 the red costal stripe, not joined to the pale yellow central stripe. The pectinations 

 of the antenna short, those of the middle segments about as long as the shaft is 

 broad. The dorsal process of the valve, and the harpe as in xanthopis. 



This is presumably the race of the coast districts and the Zambesi. 



d. L. afra afra Karsch (1891) (text-fig. 7) 



Leucophlebia afra Karscb, Ent. Nachr. 17. p. 12, pi. 1, fig. 1, $ (1891), $ ? , Mukenge, Kassai). 



Valvarum processus dorsalis parvus, harpa bifurcata. 



Hab. Old Calabar to Angola. In the Tring Museum twenty-six cfcf from r 

 Old Calabar ; S. of Congo ; Upper Congo (Bentley) ; Nana Meya, Muhumbua, 

 Mukenge and Bula Matenga, Angola, September 1903 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Lncalla, 

 Angola, November 1903 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Pungo Andongo, Angola, April 1875 

 (A. von Homeyer) ; Bihe, Angola. 



Occiput and frons strongly contrasting in colour, with the exception of our 

 Bihe specimen. Pectinations of antenna medium, those of the central segments 

 varying from being a little shorter to being somewhat longer than the shaft is 

 wide. The pale yellow median stripe of the forewing usually about twice as wide 

 in the middle as the posterior red stripe at the hind angle, rarely slightly dentate 

 on the veins distally ; the stigma usually not entirely enclosed in the red costal 

 stripe. The two lobes of the anal sternite narrower than in the other subspecies 



