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;>w. Praedora leucophaea >-\w. nov. (I'l. LXVI. 1. In, cj). 



S. I'ulvillus iKirniw; Idlic ol' |i:iriiii\cliiinii very slcmlcr, sluirl. I'.ody jfveyisli 

 white, witli some elayish sealcs here iuiil there ; ubiloiuen aii|ieiirini;- ringed with 

 cliiy-i'ohiur owing to grease. 



Wings, Kppcrside. Forewing greyisli white ; costal margin sliglilly concave 



as in preceding ; markings clay-colonr ; an antemedian band of two lines, cnrved 

 costad in front ; between it and base traces of three lines, indicated at costal margin 

 by three spots ; a trace of a white stigma just outside antemedian band ; a broader 

 discal band, proximally convex and distally concave between veins, consisting of 

 two lines with the interspace filled in ; between this baud and outer margin 

 a double line, the inner one vestigial, slightly accentuated by vein-dots ; the outer 

 one distinct, consisting of half-moons which are convex distally ; a submarginal 

 line of vein-dots ; fringe clay-colonr, witli small greyish white internervnlar 



spots. Hindwing pale clay-colour, with a vestige of deeper coloured submarginal 



band, which becomes a little more distinct in a side-view. 



Underside grey, shaded with clay-colour, distal margins more greyish wliite. 



Forcwing witli three faint jiarallel discal lines, evenly curved, not dentate, distances 

 between lower angle of cell, first line, third line, and distal margin about the 



same. Hindwing also with three lines, the first just in front of apex of cell, 



abbreviated, the second about U mm. outside lower angle of cell, the third at R* 

 a little nearer cell than distal margin. 



Length of forewing : S , 20 mm. 



llab. Luitpold Mountains, near Ikutha, Brit. E. Africa. 



C)ne S in the Tring Museum, received from Messrs. Staudinger & Bang-Haas. 



XVII. COCYTIUS.-Typns: antaeus. 



S^,/,;»r, Cramer {mm Liune, 1758), Pnp. Ex. i. p. 124 (1775). 



Corytius Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schia. p. 140 (1822) (typo : anlavus). 



PliltrjcllKintius id., I.e. (type: duent'mii). 



Anijihimyx Poey, Cent. Lep. t. 4 (18.32) (type : (Jnpunchd). 



MnrroMa Walker, Lkt. Lep. Im. B.'M. viii. p. 200 (1856) (partiin). 



Amphiiinij.c (!), Lucas, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba vii. p. 289 (1856). 



Anchtruynothus WalleDgren, Ofv. Sv. Vet. Ac. Uamll. xv. p. 138 (1858) (type : niilaeHs). 



(??. Difi'ers from P rotoparce and Ampldmoea in the third segment of the 

 palpus being prolonged into a pointed, conical, naked horn. Paronychium with 

 ta-fl lobes on each side. The third row of spines on all or only on the distal segments 

 of the foretarsus of the <? developed into a comb. Antennal segments of ? without 

 basal rows of prolonged ciliae. 



Hpines of abdominal tergites heavy, conical, those of the 7th resj). Sth 

 segment long ; no spines or only vestiges of such on the sternites. Mesonotum 

 as a rule with two white dots, mostly covered by the upper edges of the meso- 

 thoracic tegula. The scales in the middle of the abdominal tergites raised into 

 more or less conspicuous tufts or crests. The first segment of the foretarsus with 

 numerous short spines at the outerside ; in the S the Srd row dense on segments 

 1 to 5, or 2 to 5, or 3 to 5, and the spines directed laterad, and somewhat curved, 

 formiug a peculiar kind of comb (PI. LXIV. f. 6. 9. lU) ; the spines of rows 

 I, 2 and 4 of segments 2 to 5, and of rows 2 and 4 of segment 1 few iu number, 



