NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXXVIII. 1932. 11 ON THE GEOMETRIDAE OF THE EXPEDITION OF CH. ALLUAUD AND R. JEANNEL TO CENTRAL AFRICA. By LOUIS B. PROUT. TDY an unfortunate accident, due to a rearrangement of my manuscript, the '-^ Sterrhinae of the Traminda group were dropped out of my report on the above collection {Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. xxix, pp. 375-512, 1932). As this in-cludes a new race of which the Paris Museum has been credited with the type, it is necessary to make good the omission ; in any case, it is desirable that the intention of giving a complete survey of the very valuable collection should not be frustrated. The following are the species in question. SuBFAM. STERRfflNAE Meyr. Chlorerythra rubriplaga extenuata n.subsp. Type : a 5 from Taveta in Mus. Paris. Smaller than r. rubriplaga Warr. (Nov. Zool. ii, j). 91, S. Africa), more weakly marked, the forewmg beneath with the rosy costal shading more re-stricted, generally leaving the cell as well as the posterior part of the wing whitish. Kenya Colont : Taveta (alt. 7,500 m.), st. 65, 16-21 March 1912, 1 $ ; Serengheti Desert : Landjoro (alt. 900 m.), st. 64, March 1912, 1 $ ; Mbujnini (alt. 1,150 m.), St. 63, March 1912, 1 $. Also from Kibwezi (Kenya Colony) and Kongwa (Tanganyika Territory) in Mus. Tring. Probably the specimens which I have recorded from SomaUland (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1916, p. 148) likewise belong here, but I cannot now compare them. Traminda acuta pallida Warr. T. (?) pallida Warr., Nov. Zool. vi, p. 296 (1899) (Kenya Colony : Kiboko River). Kenya Colony : Taveta (alt. 750 m.), st. 65, March 1912, 1 ^, 1 ?; Serengheti Desert: Mbuyuni (alt. 1,150 m.), st. 63, March 1912, 1 $; Voi, September 1909, 1 $ (Ch. Allttatjd). Known from the White Nile, the Uelle district, Kenya and Tanganyika Territory, I think also from British SomaUland. Traminda atroviridaria (Mab.). Thalera atroinriduria Mab., C.B. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxiii, p. xxii (1891) (" Madagascar"). Traminda ocellain Warr., Kon. Zool. ii, p. 100 (189.5) (S. Africa). Tratninda riifa Warr., Mop. Zool. iv, p. 65 (1897) (ah.) (Natal : Weenen). Uganda : Unyoro, East Albert Nyanza, 1909, 1 $ (Ch. Alluaud). Widely distributed ; already known from Unyoro, Rhodesia, Transvaal, Natal and Cape Colony. I have never seen it from Madagascar and suspect a
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