NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 379 



Toosa glaucopiformis. 



t Toosa glaucopiformis Wlk., viii. 65 (1850). 

 Zululand. 



Genus Lamprochrysa nov. 



Type, L. triplex. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of 

 head and clothed with rough hair ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae 

 strongly dilated towards extremity ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair ; 

 hind tibiae of male with large tuft of long hair from base above ; abdomen with 

 slight lateral tufts of hair towards extremity. Forewing narrow, the apex 

 rounded, the termen obliquely curved ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 

 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8 strongly stalked ; 9, 10, 11 from 

 cell, 9 widely separated from 10, 11, which are approximated. Hindwing with 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 connected with the cell 

 by an oblique bar at middle. 



Lamprochrysa triplex. 



Diospatje triplex Plotz, Stelt. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 79 (1880). 

 ^Diospagr scintillans But!., P.Z.S. 1893. p. 675. pi. ix. ff. 12. 13. 



Cameroous, Uganda, Br. C. Africa, IT. E. Khodesia. 



Genus Charidea. 



Type. 

 Charidea Dalm., Vet. Akad. Handl. 1816. p. 225 hypparchua 



(1) Charidea hypparchus. 



Sphinx hypparchus Cram., Pap. Exot. iii. p. 7. pi. 197. f. C. (1779). 

 Zygaena argynnis Fabr., Spec. Ins. ii. p. 161 (1781). 



Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, S. Nigeria, Gaboon, 

 ' (2) Charidea semiaurata. 



t Evxhromia semiaurata Wlk., i. 207 (1854). 



Sierra Leone, S. Nigeria, Gaboon, Congo. 



(3) Charidea vicaria. 



t Euchromia vicaria Wlk., i. 207 (1854). 



Olaucopis pelidne Mab., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6). x. p. 35 (1890). 



Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Br.- B. A&ica, Uganda, Germ. E. Africa. 



(4) Charidea smaragdina. 



t Pompostola smaragdina Butl., P.Z.S. 1888. p. 97. 

 Uganda, Portuguese E. Africa. 



Genus Amalthocera. 



T.vpe. 



Amalthocera Boisd., Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 14. f. 8 (1836) tiphys 



Callibaptes Jord., Entom. xl. p. 126 (1907) tiphys 



The structural figure of the palpi given by Boisduval is sufficient definition 

 of his genus for it to stand. 



