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Gonoreta i,'cii- w<v. 



Foremngs: costa strongly an-liril ; iipex iiiiiiiiiin'iit ; liiii(liii:irgiii ani^'lt'il a( 

 vein 4, concave above, sinuuiis below. 



Hhuhnnya : ample; liinilinargin well cur\cfl; inner margin concave in basal 

 half, the anal angle rounded and slightly lolled. 



Antennae (c?) with long slender clavate pectinations; i)aliii (damaged) short; 

 tongue and frenulum absent ; hindtibiae without sjjurs. 



Neuration : forewings, cell quite half as long as wing; di.scocellular strongly 

 inangulated; first median nerviile at one-half, second at three-fomths, third close 

 before angle of cell; lower radial from tlie angle; upper from ujiper angle of cell; 

 7, 8 coincident from the angle; 9, 10 long stalked, 9 osculating with 7, 8 shoitly 

 before a(iex ; 11 free: hindwings, 7 from long before angle of cell, approximating 

 onlv to 8 ; discocellular bluntly iuangulate; third median and radial together lioni 

 lower end of cell ; first median at two-thirds, second at five-sixths. 



Type: Gonoreta ansorffei sp. nov. 



Superficially resembling Strepsigonia Warr.. hut difiVring in neuration. vein 7 

 of forewings being absent. 



2. Gonoreta ansorgei sp. nov. 



Fm-ewings: ochreous, tinged with redilish fa\vn-colour, and coarsely dusted with 

 brown-black scales; these tend to form short transverse striae between the veins: no 

 distinct markings, but a submarginal ferruginous shade parallel to hindmargin and 

 like it angled at vein 4; cell-spot brown ; fringe fawn-colour. 



Hindwings: sinular ; the marginal area, as in forewings, deejjei- tinted. 



Underside with much fewer striae, the rufous tint more predominant; forewings 

 with an indistinctly marked oblique brownish line beyond middle reaching neither 

 costal nor inner margin. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous; palpi and forelegs 

 bright red. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



One cJ from Agberi, Niger, .Inly Udll (I)r. Ansorge). 



The single example is damaged aliout the head i)arts ; in all jirobability the face, 

 as well as palpi, was bright red. as in the species of the allied genus Oretu. 



3. Phalacrothyris smithi sji. nov. 



Foreivingx : fawn-colour, speckled with darker, and with some whitish scales 

 towards the apex ; the hyaline spot at lower end of cell is followed by three others 

 beyond the cell, above the origin of veins 3, 4, 5 respectively ; the spot below the cell 

 is very much larger than in P. viridifusa Warr. ; obliquely above the spots towards 

 costa is an elongated blotch of red-brown scales, which in certain lights appear dark 

 lustrous green ; fringe darker. 



Hindwings : with a minute lilack d.>t at each end of discocellular. 



I iiderside paler, jiearly grey, with dark speckling and the veins reddish. 

 Thorax and abdomen like wings; shouUh'rs and jiatagia very pale pinkish ochreous ; 

 face fawn-coloiu', darker above. 



Exj)anse of wings : 52 mm. 



One ? from ^'akusu, L'pper Congo (K. himitli). 



