NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. 



Vol. VI. DECEMBER, 1899. No. 3. 



NEW BBEFANULIBAE, TEYBIDIDAE, AND 

 GE03IETEIDAE FROM THE AETHIOPIAN REGION. 



Bt W. warren, M.A., F.E.S. 



Family DREPANULIDAE. 



Phalacrothyris gen. nov. 



? . Fore icings : with costa curved, more strongly close to base ; apex produced, 

 subacute : hindmargiu angled at end of vein 4, concave above, oblique below ; 

 anal angle well marked. 



llindtviiiijs : with the anal angle square, the hindmargin straight from it to 

 end of vein 6, where it is strongly toothed, the apex truncate. 



Antennae unipectinate ; pali)i very short ; tongue and frenulum absent. 



Neuratioti : forewings, cell more than half as long as wing, the discocellular 

 inangulated ; first median ncrvule at two-thirds ; second shortly before end ; third 

 and lower radial from the end ; vein 6 shortly stalked with 7, 8; 9, lu, stalked; 

 11 free. Hindwings, with 7 well before end of cell, strongly anastomosing with 8. 

 The rest as in forewiugs. 



Forewings with hyaline spots at end of, below, and beyond cell ; hindwings 

 with smaller spots beyond cell only. 



Type : Fh.alacrotlvjvi$ ^nhririiUs s]>. nov. 



1. Phalaci'othyris subviridis sp. nov. 



Foreicings ; fawn-colour, irregularly speckled with brown, the costal area 

 paler, with a few larger brown spots ; discocellular marked with brown scales ; 

 a glassy spot in the lower half of the end of cell, preceded by a brown spot ; 

 another below it between the median vein and vein 2, and a smaller one between 

 vein 2 and submediau fold ; one stUl smaller between veins 3 and 4 ; fringe rufons, 

 with traces of a darker basal line. 



Hindwings : with the discocellular slightly darker, and with a dai'k spot at 

 its lower end, followed by two small hyaline spots on each side of vein 4 ; marginal 

 area darker ; fringe rufous. 



Underside dull ochreous, more sparsely speckled, with an oblique dift'iise dark 

 fuscous snbmargiual line angled on vein of forewings, continued less distinctly 

 through the costal half of hindwings ; the hyaline spots greenish. Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen concolorous with wings ; face dark brown. 



Expanse of wings : 3U mm. 



One $ from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, July 1SU7 (Dr. lioili). 



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