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indicated by a couple of black spots. Orbicular stigma, a fine 

 black point with a fine black line round it. Reniform indistinct. 

 Postmedial line represented by a double row of black points 

 bent in to inner margin. A broad red-brown band from base 

 along median nervure to end of cell, where it is bent up into a 

 tooth, then curving down to outer margin at vein 4. The area 

 below this band reddish towards base. Some small ferruginous 

 stripes between veins 3, 4, and 5 submarginally. Hind wing 

 grey, the terminal area fuscous. Cilia ochreous. Underside 

 pale ochreous, with a fine striga at end of cell of fore wing. 



Habitat. Kedai, 13th January, 1913, 1 <$ . Expanse 40 mm. 



I have named this form cervicomis, from a fancied resemblance 

 of the broad red band to a stag's antler. 



The only species in the B. M. Collection which seems to be 

 near this form is the recently described Pteronycta fasciata 

 Hampson, from Zomba in Nyassaland, which is a much larger 

 insect. 



Subfamily Hypenin,e. 

 *189. Hypena jussalis Walker. 



Habitat. Kedai, 1911, 29th December, 1 3 ; 30th December, 1 6 . 

 Hypena strigata Fabricius. 



Habitat. Kedai, 25th November, 1911, 1 <S 3rd January, 

 1912, 1 J. 



In my former paper I mentioned that the specimens of Hypena 

 in the Feather collection represent two forms, a grey and a 

 brown form. I now find that the grey form is jussalis Walker, 

 and the brown form strigata Fabricius. 



Family Lymantriadj:. 



271. Casama vilis Walker. 



Habitat. Masongaleni, 25th June, 1911, 1 $ . 



Specimens of this species in the B. M. Collection are nearly all 

 from Ce}don and Arabia, but there are a few from the Red Sea 

 littoral which agree with this specimen. Clearly a desert form. 



272. RlIODESANA MINTHA, Sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 19.) 



Desci^tion. — 6 . Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing 

 chestnut red-brown. Antennae bipectinate. Abdomen with 

 dorsal tufts. Fore wing thickly irrorated and striated with 

 black. A subbasal bjack line from costa to vein 1. Antemedial 

 line irregularly waved and bent inwards on vein 3, and thence 

 more or less straight to inner margin. A line of wedge-shaped 

 red-brown submarginal spots between the veins . before termen. 

 Cilia red-brown, whitish at the extremities of the veins, Hind 

 wing ochreous, irrorated with red-brown atoms, with a somewhat 

 indistinct medial line across the disc. Underside ochreous, with 

 indistinct brown medial band. 



