( -i' ) 



dorsjil ami aiiical edges denticulate (1*1. IjIX. f. o). Peiiis-sheath somewliat carved, 

 with a short conical horizontal ajjieal tooth pointing dextro-laterad (PI. LIX. f. '.)). 



? and early stages not known. 



Ilab. British Central Africa. 



One species. 



23. Dovania poecila spec, no v. (PI. VI. f. 9, c^). 



(?. Black, with lew white hair-scales. Antenna (except scaling) hazel colour. 

 Abdomen with broad creamy buflf rings, which are broadly interrupted above, widest 

 laterally, and confined to the tergites. 



AVings, ujjjjergu/e. Forewing olive-black, with the black lines indistinct, 



traceable in consequence of the presence of blaish white scales in the interspaces ; 

 an area at lower angle of cell and extending on to disc without these scales ; a 

 triangular costal apical patch deeper black and continued backwards as a kind of 

 snbmarginal baud ; au angle-shaped apical sjjot followed behind SO^ by a line, white ; 

 stigma ferruginous yellow ; fringe with traces of white spots. Hiudwing ferru- 

 ginous, base and abdominal margin black ; fringe brown, with small white spots. 



Underskfe : brown, both wings ferruginous on disc ; this colour extending 

 to distal margin exce])t in front and behind ; the two white markings near tip 

 of forewing as above ; hindwing with a bluish white postdiscal band, which is not 

 well defined, and traces of some discal bands ; there are also some bluish wiiite 

 scaling on the forewing in outer third. 



Length of forewing : c?, 30 mm. 



Hah. District of Dowa, or Chiwere, Central Augouiland. 



1 S iu the Oxford Museum. 



XIII. LOMOCYMA gen. uov.— Typus : oegrapha. 



Sphhu; Mabille (mm Linne, 1758), C. R. Snc. Ent. Bdg. xxviii. p. 187 (1884). 



c??. Autenna (cj) strongly compressed, the fasciculated ciliae long, ventral 

 series not reaching mesial line, ultimate segment shorter than in Psilogramma, 

 Meganoton and allied genera, the preceding ones all shorter than high. Eye 

 lashed. Tibiae not spiny. First segment of foretarsus long-scaled, appearing 

 incrassate, externally with 3 or 4 moderately prolonged and somewhat curved 

 spines, externo-apical spine of second segment also prolonged ; first segment of 

 mid- and hindtarsus much longer than the other segments together, and longer 

 than the tibiae. Midtarsus with comb as in Meganoton ; spines of row 3 of first 

 segment of hindtarsus little prolonged basally, row 2 almost reaching base ; spurs 

 long, long apical one of hindtarsus about f the length of first tarsal segment ; 

 pnlvillus and paronychium present, the latter with two flaps at each side. Distal 

 margin of wings scalloited, fringe long. 



S. Clasper without patch of modified scales ; penis-sheath without armature. 



?. Postvaginal part of vaginal plate chitinised, broadly rounded apical ly ; 

 mouth of vagina proximal, a thin membranaceous fold runs from side to 

 side bordering the vaginal cavity proximally, antevagiual part of vaginal plate 

 membranaceous. 



