46 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917. 



tlie medial line, which is black, inwardly oblique and incurved from subcostal 

 nervure to just below the cell ; the costal area bej'ond it whitish ; a small 

 rather oblique black discoidal spot ; postraedial line black, diffused on inner 

 side and defined on outer side by whitish, inwardly oblique, and with its outer 

 edge minutely dentate, a blackish shade beyond it ; the terminal area grey- 

 white with some black at costa and a terminal series of minute black spots. 

 Hindwing white, faintly tinged with brown ; a slight dark termmal line. Under- 

 side of forewing white tinged with fuscous ; hindwing with the costa slightly 

 UTorated with fuscous. 



Colombia, Minca (H. H. Smith), 1 <J type. Exp. IG mill. 



Sect. II. Palpi of female extending about twice the length of head ; 

 antennae of male ciliated ; forewing with veins 4, 5 strongly stalked, the 

 discocellulars less strongly angled inwards ; hindwing with vein 3 frcm near 

 angle of cell and the discocellulars not so strongly angled inwards. 



(4) tEpimorius adustalis n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown with a slight reddish tinge. Fore- 

 wing grey-brown with a slight reddish tinge and some black irroraticn ; a slight 

 discoidal spot formed by black scales ; traces of an obliquely curved postmedial 

 black line ; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing and underside grey- 

 brown with a slight reddish tinge. 



Sierra Leone (Clements), 4 cJ, 1 $type ; S. Nigeria, Lagos (Sir G. Carter), 1 ?, 

 Old Calabar (Crompton), 1 $; Sapele (Sampson), 1 i; Warri (Roth.), 1 $. Exp. 

 <J 18-22, ? 26-30 mill. 



Gen. Cathayia. 



Type. 

 Ca(Ao^ia Hmpsn., 7?om. J/em. viii. p. 451 (1901) ....... obliquella 



Proboscis slight ; palpi of male short, upturned, thicklj' scaled, of female 

 downcurved and extending about the length of head ; maxOlary palpi minute ; 

 frons with large tuft of hair ; antennae of male rather short, the basal joint 

 somewhat dilated. Forewing triangular, the costa arched, the apex somewhat 

 produced and rounded, the termen oblique ; the cell about two-thirds length 

 of wing ; vein 3 from well before angle ; 4, 5 separate in male, in female stalked 

 or from a point ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8 stalked from 10, 9 absent or frcm 

 beyond 7, arising before the angle of cell ; 1 1 from cell ; the male on underside 

 with a small glandular swelling at base of costa with a large tuft of black hair 

 from below its extremity, the base of median nervure and cell clothed with rough 

 androconia. Hindwing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; the dis- 

 cocellulars angled inwards to near base ; veins 6, 7 stalked, 7 anastomosing 

 with 8. 



(1) Cathayia obliquella. 



Cathayia ohliqudla, Hmpsn. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 452. pi. 51. f. G (1901). 

 Japan ; C. China. 



(2) Cathayia purpureotincta n. sp. 

 ?. Head and thorax rufous with a few blackish scales; abdomen paler 

 rufous ; palpi with a slight purplish tinge ; pectus, legs and ventral surface of 



