472 AECTIAD^. 



Genus CARCINARCTIA, nov. 



Type, C. metamelcena. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect to just beyond the frons ; antennae of male 

 bipectinate with rather long branches ; head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with 

 long woolly hair; fore tibiae short with curved claw at extremity on inner side 

 and short claw on outer, mid and hind tibiae with the spurs moderate. Fore 

 wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from j ust above angle ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 free. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 shortly 

 stalked ; 8 from before middle of cell. 



2070. Carcinarctia metamelaena, n. sp. 



<S . Head and thorax deep red-brown ; palpi black ; femora 

 scarlet above, the tibiae and tarsi tinged with fuscous ; abdomen 

 orange, tinged with scarlet towards base, subdorsal series of black 



Fig. 206. — Carcinarctia metamelegna, c?. f- 



bands and lateral series of spots. Fore wing red-brown irrorated 

 with black ; obscure antemedial and medial black lines angled on 

 median nervure ; a diffused discoidal lunule ; a postmedial line 

 excurved between veins 5 and 3, and followed by a curved line with 

 black spots on it above veins 5 and 1. Hind wing black ; the base 

 pale ; the inner area with some scarlet hair ; short scarlet streaks 

 on veins 4-1 ; the terminal orange-red band with rather irregular 

 inner edge. Underside of fore wing with the disk suffused with 

 crimson. 



Hab. Be. E. Afeica, Lari (Betton), 1 S type, Kikuyu, Nairobi 

 (CrawsJiay), 1 c? . Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus CYMBALOPHORA. 



Type. 



Ti/mpanophora, Laboulb. Ann. Soc. Ent.Fr. (4) iv. p. 704 (1864), 



nee White, Orth. (1841) pudica. 



Cymhalophora, Eamb. Cat. Lep. And. ii. p. 231 (1866) pudica. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, extending as far as the large frontal 

 tuft; head and thorax clothed with woolly hair ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; fore 

 tibiae with long curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer ; abdomen 

 smoothly scaled at base. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 

 from angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8 from before middle of cell. 



