( 15" ) 



second united by a bar with the fourth ; all the subcostal s_vstem closely compressed 

 and near the eosta. Hindwings without radial ; the costal approaching the subcostal 

 some little distance from the base ; first subcostal nen'ule and second median each 

 rising just before end of cell. Scaling close and thick. 

 Type : Xeuro2)olodes sphingata AVarr. 



Neiu-opolodes sphingata sp. nov. 



Foreivings : fawn-colour. Juried with black atoms, and sufiused in parts with 

 reddish; lines hardly marked, the first represented onlj' by a dark sjwt beneath the 

 median ; a dark central shade jiassing over a black cell-spot, which is placed ou the 

 lower half of the discocellular ; above the anal angle is a dark red-brown patch; 

 fringe darker. 



Hindwings : with a central reddish shade, and some irregular reddish clouds 

 along the hindmargin ; cell-spot white ; fringe dark brown. 



Face and |iatagia reddish bro\ni ; frontlet pale; thorax and abdomen fawn- 

 colour. Underside pale fawn, with dark fuscous freckles ; from the apex of forewings 

 a dark brown slightly wavy internalh' pale-edged line runs to the inner margin of 

 the hindwings, and is followed by a rufous shade ; veins all pale ; cell-spot of hind- 

 wings white. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



One ? from Calabar. 



Ocoelophora giu. nov. 



Forewings : broad; costa strongly arched at base, then straight to apex, which is 

 blunt and rectangular ; hindmargin irregularly crenulate, the upper half vertical, the 

 lower oblique; anal angle strongly marked. 



Hiiidwings : with crenulate hindmargin, the anal angle strongly marked. 



Antennae simple in both sexes ; palpi porrect, weakly rostriform ; tongue 

 jiresent ; bind tibiae in <S slightly thickened, with four spurs. Neuration normal. 

 Forewings in both sexes with a small oval hyaline fovea, immediately beneath the 

 median vein at base. 



Type : Ocoelophora basijninctaMoove. In Novitates Zoologicae, I., p. 443, this 

 species is given as the type of Mimochroa. This was an error ; it should have been 

 (nigidifascia Moore. 



Paracomistis gen. nov. 



Closely allied to Spilocraspada \\'arr.. but with \ery short horizontally i>orrect 

 palpi and fully pectinated antennae in the S ; forewings with distinct fovea. 

 Type : Parcccomistis lignicolor Warr. 



Paracomistis boarmiata s[). nov. 

 Forewings: whitish, glossy, with greyish ochreous freckles and suffusion; first 

 line blackish at one-third, sharply and minutely dentate; second line blackish, 

 irregularly dentate and sinuous, from costa at five-sixths to inner margin just beyond 

 middle, followed in places by an olive fuscous shade; submarginal line indistinctly 

 pale, bordered internally by two small dark blotches opposite the cell, another at the 

 anal angle, and a smaller one midway between them ; fringe white, with black dots 

 at the end of the veins, and black dashes at the base between them; a small 

 blackish cell-spot. 



