316 Mr. L. B. Piout 



on new 



conversely oblique brown (posteriorly black) shade beyond, 

 much as in notata^ Liun.^ natalensis^'Wa.vY., and others of the 

 genus, the rest of its course irregularly lunulate-dentate ; 

 a single pair of quite small black postmedian ma^'ks (the 

 outer slightly elongate) in cellule 3, the pair which usually 

 accompanies it in cellule 4 in lataria and the allies obsolete, 

 only a few black scales indicating the position of the proxi- 

 mal one ; termen with rather weak interneural dots; fringe 

 with pale line at base, then feebly mottled. 



Hind iving shaped as in lataria (termen only feebly bent 

 at R3) ; median and postmedian lines stronger than on fore 

 wing ; cell-dot strong, no other black markings ; distal area 

 almost uniformly drab. 



Underside with the reticulations much coarser, sparser, 

 and darker than above, the line also strong and dark ; 

 proximal area (to median shade) and veins tinged with bright 

 ochreous-brown ; distal area strongly contrasted; that of 

 fore wing with a bright brown anterior cloud beyond the 

 postmedian, crossing R^, some blackish-fuscous clouding 

 therein, especially in cellule 6 proximally, and blackish- 

 fuscous clouds at termen anteriorly (tapering to points at 

 apex and about R^) and behind R^ near the postmedian 

 (widening to tornus), leaving white subapical dash and 

 posterior blotch ; that of hind wing with irregular blackish- 

 fuscous subterminal band, widening gradually to radial fold, 

 then suddenly narrowed to only about 1 mm. width, the 

 retrocession being on its distal side. 



Cameroons : Bitje, Ja River, Septemb;^r. Type in coll. 

 Dentsch. Ent. Mus., received through A. Heyne. 



Extremely similar on upperside to some Cameroons forms 

 of the variable lataria. Walk., the difference from which I 

 have named it perhaps inconstant ; but, as that has the cT 

 hind tibia dilated, there can be no question as to its specific 

 distinctness. The British Museum has a lighter $ of, 

 apparently, the present species from Lagos, rather more 

 ochreous-browiT, lines still weaker both above and beneath, 

 fore wing beneiith with apex more broadly pale. 



13. Macaria exsuperans, sp. n. 



K$ ? . — 41-14 mm. 



Face with rather long but thin projecting tuft below ; 

 dark brown. Palpus about If, second joint tufted above ; 

 blackish brown, beneath pale ochreous-brown. Antenna of 

 J subserrate-fasciculate, the cilia fine, slightly longer than 



