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SOME NEW MOTHS. 

 BY KARL JORDAN, Ph.D. 



&YNTOMIDAE. 



1. Pseudapiconoma compsa spec. nov. 



S. Body pale mummy-brown, a small spot at base of anteuna, a thin border 

 to protlioracic tegula, aud two thin streaks on mesonotnm tawny-ochraceous ; a 

 large dorso-lateral basal patch on abdomen, side of forecoxa, npperside of forefemnr 

 and hinder side of hindcoxa scarlet, abdominal tergites 4 to 7 and middle of 3, and 

 the underside of abdomen creamy clay-colour ; a series of small lateral tufts on 

 abdomen orange. 



Wings, uppcrside. Forewing : pale mnmmy-browu ; a minute reddish spot 



in centre of base, behind which there is a larger pale orange spot ; a round nude 

 spot before middle of SM- situated on this vein, appearing white on account of 

 being scaled white beneath ; the following transparent spaces : a square space at 

 apex of cell, a series of 8 spaces from costal to inner margin, 1 aud 2 small, 

 2 separated by a brown spot from a small additional sjjace situated at base of 

 SC — RS space 3 not reaching so far distad as 4, spaces 5 and 6 large, extending 

 from cell to near distal margin, 7 about two-thirds their length, a small transparent 



dot behind base of M- ; vein SC forming an areole with SCI Hindwing : 



small, hairy, semitransparent, grey, blackish at the edges ; vein R- from a point 

 with W. 



Underside paler than upper. 



Length of forewing : 20 mm. 



Hab. Pungo Andongo, Angola, April 26, 187.5 (A. von Homeyer) ; 1 S. 



2. Pseudapiconoma gloriosa spec. nov. 



¥ . Body black, glossy blue ; a stripe on mesothoracic tegula and one on 

 each side of mesonotnm, a sjjot on each side of metanotum and another on first 

 abdominal tergite, terminal belts of tergites 2 to 6, the anterior ones more or 

 less interrupted and the others narrowed mesially, large lateral spots on the 

 sternites, inner respectively posterior side of coxae, a minute lateral dot on 

 prosternnm and a thin line at frontal side of eye scarlet. 



Wings, uppeiside blackish hair-brown, faintly shot with blue. Forewing 



with two scarlet dots upon C at base, and seven transparent spots : one in cell 

 near apex, another behind M- distally of base of this vein, square, five in a row 

 from SC^ to M', the first minute, the third the largest, being about as long as 

 the cell is broad at apex. Hindwing : with scarlet basal spot at hinder margin. 



Underside like upper, fore- and hindwing with a basal spot of scarlet hairs 

 behind. 



SC of forewing before apex of cell, anastomosing with C and connected with 

 SC^ by a bar ; R^ and R^ of hindwing from a point. 



Length of forewing : 32 mm. 



Ilab. Pungo Andongo, Angola, April 20, 187.5 (A. von Homeyer) ; 1 ?. 



