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Show 1893.] BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 683 208. HYPENA ABYSSINIALIS. Hypena abyssinialis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 39, n. 44. Zomba, December 1892. 209. GONODELA BRONGUSARIA. Epione ? brongusaria, Walker, Lep. Het. xx. p. 123, n. 14 (1860). Zomba, January 1893. 210. GONODELA KILIMANJARENSIS. Gonodela kilimanjarensis, Holland, Ent. Suppl. 1892, p. 95. Zomba, July and December 1892, January 1893. Moeschler's Semiothisa largiflcaria (Abhandl. Senck. nat. Ges. xv. p. 95, fig. 20, 1887) seems nearly allied to this species. One of our examples also nearly resembles G. maligna from Japan. 211. GONODELA ZOMBINA, sp. n. Not unlike the preceding species; granite-grey, with black discocellular spots ; the inner oblique angulated line of primaries ill-defined; the transverse dark grey mottling better defined ; the external area from the second line considerably darker than the .remainder of the wing-surface, but this difference is less pronounced in a tapering patch immediately beyond the line and extending upwards from inner margin of both wings and on the external border of the secondaries ; the outer line of primaries more oblique than in G. kilimanjarensis, and continuous with the inner line of secondaries; the outer line of the latter wings slightly nearer to outer margin : wings below white, coarsely mottled with dark grey, the two transverse lines of the upper surface reproduced, the inner one in grey mottling; external area grey-brown, slightly reddish towards apex of primaries, with white nebula towards the middle, the secondaries also with a squamose apical spot; veins of all wings ochreous ; costa of primaries buff: body below cream-coloured, speckled with dark grey; legs slightly yellower. Expanse of wings 40 mdlim. Zomba, July and December 1892, January 1893. Compared with G. kilimanjarensis, this species has the costal margin of the primaries longer and the outer margin consequently more oblique; the angle of the secondaries is also slightly more defined. 212. TEPHRINA JOHNSTONI, sp. n. Greyish white, mottled with fuliginous grey ; discocellular spots black, almost obliterated by the dark transverse lines ; the primaries crossed obliquely by four lines, the first three angulated towards costa, the first near the base, the second crossing the end of the cell, slightly diverging from the first, but parallel to the third, which is blackish, undulated, its angle almost filled in by an irregular perpendicular dark grey spur from lower radial to sub- |