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282. Heterocrita metis, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 30.) 



Description. — -§ . Head pinkish brown, the vertex between the 

 antennas white. Antennae white above, pink beneath. Thorax 

 and wings bright grass-green. Abdomen pale pinkish brown 

 above, ochreous on the under surface, the first two somites 

 bright pinkish. Wings unmarked except for a bright pink- 

 brown marginal line, inside which are two minute white spots 

 defined inwardly by pinkish brown between veins 5 and 7, and a 

 large one of the same colour at tornal angle of each wing. The 

 inner margin of the hind wing also defined by a pinkish-brown 

 line. Cilia pale pink. Underside glaucous grey. 



Habitat. Kedai, 20th February, 1912, 1 2 • Expanse 30 mm. 



This form is near to, and may, perhaps, be a local race of 

 Heterocrita deprensa Prout, from which it differs in (1) having 

 no discoidal spots, (2) the spots at the tornal angles of both 

 wings are much larger, and (3) the abdomen is much more pink- 

 coloured. . 



283. Eurythecodes flavedinaria Guen. 



Habitat. Meru, B. E. Africa, taken by Lady Col vile. 

 Mr. Prout informs me that this is a common and very variable 

 species, but I have only one specimen of it. 



Family Limacodid^e. 



284. Thosea ganale Pagenstecher. 

 Habitat. Kedai, 1st December, 1911, 1 J. 



285. Thosea undosa, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 6.) 



Description. — 2 • Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous 

 brown. Fore wing with the basal area as far as the postmedial 

 line red-brown, the distal area beyond it pale ochreous brown. 

 Subbasal and antemedial lines absent ; a black point at end of 

 cell. A broad, dark brown oblique postmedial line, waved and 

 irregular, from costa to inner margin at middle. A fine dark 

 brown subterminal line from costa to tornal angle, where it 

 almost meets the black marginal line. Cilia pale brown in both 

 wings. Hind wing ochreous brown, with a brown marginal line. 

 Underside ochreous brown, irrorated with red -brown atoms. 



Habitat. Kedai, 4th December, 1911, 1 2 • Expanse 30 mm. 



This form is nearest to T. cana Walker (=.transversata 

 Walker) from India, in which the dark line is antemedial, less 

 oblique, and .straight without waves ; the subterminal line is 

 straight, and not curved, and the basal area is not so dark as in 

 this species. 



286. Thosea perseis, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 4.) 



Description. — <S . Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing red- 

 brown minutely irrorated with black atoms. Subbasal and ante- 



