286 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



31. Melinoessa torquilinea spec. nov. 



<?, 52 mm. Structure quite similar to that of fulvescens Prout and stramineata 

 Walk. (Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow i. (2) 372), including the rather long 

 antennal ciliation. Head and body similar in colouring to those of stramineata, 

 slightly more yellowish, upper part of face more fnscons. 



Upperside scarcely distinguishable from that of stramineata except that the 

 ground-colour is buff instead of whitish — recalling rather wasted specimens of 



fulvescens. Forewing with discal dot small ; antemedian line angled just 



behind SC, thence fine and rather more waved than in stramineata ; terminal line 

 thick. Hindwing without discal dot ; terminal line strong. 



Forewing beneath with much less strong irroration from base to postmedian 

 line than in stramineata ; cell-dot as above ; lines fine, subterminal present in its 

 posterior half only, rather faint ; a blackish apical cloud, 5 mm. at costa, ending 

 beyond R 3 ; a much narrower terminal cloud from tornus to the fold between R 3 

 and M 1 , tapering to a point at each end, spotted with the ground-colour on the 

 folds. Hindwing beneath with postmedian and subterminal lines very feebly 

 indicated, and with small remnants of the terminal cloudings, the anterior one 

 almost confined to the radial region. 



Bitye, Ja River, Cameroons, 2000 ft., December 1907— March 1908, dry 

 season. Type in coll. L. B. Prout. 



32. Heterostegane vetula spec. nov. 



? , 20 mm. Head and body concolorous with wings. 



Forewing broad ; bright ochreons, with coarse, scattered ferruginous irroration 

 and a fine sprinkling of silvery scales ; markings ferruginous ; antemedian line 

 fine, oblique outward from costa to cell-fold, here angalated, posteriorly rather 

 weak, sinuate ; median rather thick, from before middle of costa to middle of hind- 

 margin, sinuate inward between M 1 and SM 2 ; postmedian fairly direct, quite 

 ill-defined except as vein-clashes pointing distad, the interspaces rather free from 

 ferruginous irroration ; subterminal rather thick, projecting (but not confluent with 

 terminal spot) at R 2 , incurved between R 2 and M 1 , confluent with terminal spot 

 between M 1 and M 2 , angled inward on fold, then running to tornus ; rather large 



terminal spots ; fringe scarcely marked. Hindwing with first line scarcely 



indicated, median and postmedian more proximally placed than on forewing, post- 

 inedian better developed, bisinuate inward ; the rest nearly as on forewing. 



Underside similar, but rather duller, without silvery scales. 



Madagascar : Antananarivo (coll. Chulliat). Type in coll. L. B. Prout. 



Nearest ßavata Warr. {Nov. Zool. xii. 393, the lines less baud-like, especially 

 the subterminal, the postmedian of forewing straighter. That species, however, 

 belongs to the specialised African section in which vein C of the hindwing 

 anastomoses to about the middle of the cell, whereas in vetula it is free, or touches 

 SC at a point near base only. 



