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Show 1887.] LEPIDOPTERA F R O M TROPICAL AFRICA. 677 CHRYSOPOLOMA LABDA, n. sp. Male. Upper and underside uniform pale citron-yellow ; primaries crossed by three narrow purplish-brown bands, the first curved, the second straight from the inner margin, but not reaching the costal margin, the third a row of spots extending from near the apex to the inner margin. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale yellow. Expanse 1^ inch. Hab. East Africa : Nyassa. This pretty little species is allied to C. rosea. CHRYSOPOLOMA? THELDA, n. sp. Primaries brownish fawn-colour, thickly irrorated with white scales ; a small ^-shaped brown mark on the costal close to the apex, and a brown mark along the outer margin ; a curved line of black lunular-shaped marks extending from the apex to the inner margin above the anal angle. Secondaries pale yellow, crossed below the middle by two fawn-coloured bands of lunular-shaped marks, the first not reaching the costal margin; on the inner margin are three patches of dark-brown hairs, the fringe of all the wings fawn-colour. Underside of all the wings yellowish fawn-colour, with the darker markings as above, and in addition two indistinct rows of small brown spots ou each wing, the first between the bands, the second submarginal. The thorax and abdomen above dark fawn-colour, on the underside yellowish. Expanse 2 inches. Hab. West Africa : Mongo-ma Lubah. A fine species, very distinct from any other with which I am acquainted, but in form nearest to C. citrina. EUTRICHA, Hiibn. EUTRICHA AUDEA, n. sp. Male. Primaries dark brown, shading to pale yellowish-brown at the base and along the inner margin, three brownish-black waved lines crossing from the costal to the inner margin ; two crescent-shaped spots close to the apex. Secondaries uniform dark brown, the underside of all the wings of a dark brown colour. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown; antennae and legs brown. The female is like the male, but much larger and with all the markings much more distinct. Expanse, 3 2 inches, 2 3^ inches. Hab. West Africa : Cameroons (Rutherford, Fuller). This species is allied to E. nitens, described by Mr. Butler, from Madagascar; a specimen is in the National Collection, from Old Calabar. LASIOCAMPA, Schr. LASIOCAMPA MONTEIROI, n. sp. 3 Pale uniform straw-colour, the primaries crossed near the base and beyond the middle by two brownish-yellow lines and a |
