PUISIODOXTA. 
36-> 
blackish lines from costa to vein 3, incurved below vein 6, 
and a patch with some golden suffusion before it from vein 3 
just beyond the postmedial line to inner margin, its inner 
edge incurved to vein 1 and its outer edge excurved at vein 2 ; 
some slight grey-white lunules on termen from below apex 
to vein 4 and a point at submedian fold ; cilia grey- white 
at tips. Hind wing grey-brown, the cilia whitish at tips. 
Underside of fore wing grev-brown, the costa irrorated with 
ochreous white, the inner area whitish ; hind wing whitish 
tinged with brown especially on the veins and terminal 
area, a faint oblique brownish postmedial shade from costa 
to submedian fold. 
Hab. Br. E. Africa, N’dimu ( Betton ), 2 <$, Njoro ( Cholmley ), 
1 $ type. Exp. 44-46 millim. 
Plusiodonta megista, n. sp. 
§. Head and tegulae rufous mixed with chocolate- brown ; 
thorax chocolate-brown ; palpi red-brown, white at extreme 
tips ; pectus and legs whitish suffused with brown, the tarsi 
brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral 
surface white irrorated with brown. Fore wing bright red- 
brown with some metallic golden suffusion especially on 
costal area near base and inner area towards tornus, the inner 
area to middle, and a medial shade suffused with purple- 
grey ; a slight silvery white streak from below costa near 
base to the antemedial line at vein 1 ; antemedial line fine, 
brown, curved and slightly sinuous, ending at vein 1 ; 
reniform faintly defined by brown, a rather diffused brown 
line crossing the cell before it, then oblique to the tooth on 
inner margin ; postmedial line faint, brown, excurved below 
costa and between veins 5 and 3 where there is a curved 
silvery striga beyond it, then oblique to vein 2, where there is 
a black point on it, then represented by an oblique purple- 
grey bar just beyond the medial line ; a subterminal band 
faintly tinged with golden scales and defined by sinuous 
blackish fines from costa to vein 3, incurved below vein 7, 
and a patch defined by slight blackish fines from below 
vein 3 just beyond the postmedial fine to terminal part of 
inner margin, its inner edge incurved to vein 1 and its outer 
edge sinuous ; a purple-grey patch at middle of terminal 
area ; cilia purple-grey mixed with brown from apex to 
vein 3. Hind wing grey-brown, the cilia whitish at tips. 
Underside of fore wing grey-brown, the costa irrorated with 
whitish ; hind wing grey suffused with brown. 
Hab. Br. E. Africa. Roromo ( Crawshaij ), 1 $ type. Exp. 
46 millim. 
