1 894-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 57 



The Entomological Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS : 



NEW WEST AFRICAN DYSGONIIDAE. 



By W. J. HOLLAND, Ph. D., Pittsburg, Pa. 



(The following descriptions are all of species found in the valley of the Ogove River. 

 The types are in my collection). 



DYSGONIIDAE Moore. 



(Ophiusidee Guen). 

 SPHINGOMORPHA Guen. 



1. S. pudeus, sp. nov. rf . Palpi, front, and a stripe on the middle of 

 the collar pale fawn ; patagia, upperside of the thorax and the abdomen 

 pale chestnut; the lowerside of the thorax and the abdomen are cinereous. 

 The primaries are pale reddish fawn: beyond the base the wing is crossed 

 by a broad band of chestnut, narrowing irregularly from the inner margin 

 to the middle of the cell, and then widening to the costa ; this band is 

 margined externally and internally by fine paler lines, of which the outer 

 line is most conspicuous, becoming broadly silvery white on the inner 

 margin; there is a short waved, dark browned transverse line on the costa 

 beyond the cell, and a narrow, straight, submarginal brown line running 

 from the apex to the inner margin. The apex and outer angle are clouded 

 with brown, and there are a few small white subapical spots on the costa. 

 The secondaries are fuscous, darker toward the outer margin, with the 

 costa stramineous, shining; the outer margin is bordered with pale ochra- 

 ceous, and there is an incomplete transverse ochraceous band above the 

 anal angle. Both wings on the underside are pale rosy fawn, with the 

 inner margin still paler; both have a minute black spot at the end of the 

 cell, and beyond the cell the wings are sparingly irrorated with minute 

 blackish scales, and in some specimens accentuated by a few light spots 

 arranged in a transverse series just beyond the cell. The primaries at the 

 apex, and the secondaries at the anal angle have a few obscure blackish 

 striae. 



9 . The female does not differ from the male, except in the shorter 

 and more robust form of the abdomen. Expanse; .^\ 55 mm.; ? , 60 mm. 



LAGOPTERA Guen. 



2. L. rubricata sp. nov. J 1 . Palpi, front, corselet, and upperside of 

 the thorax chestnut; upperside of the abdomen paler brown; lower side 

 of the thorax and abdomen and anal tuft of hair minium-red. The pri- 



