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 228. Lycosphiugia hamatus. 



*Smer?>ilhiis hamatus Dewitz, I.e. p. 28. t. 2. f. 2 (1K79 (J, Chiachoxo ;— Mus. Berlin). 

 Polijptychu.') hamatus, Kirby, I.e. n. 1 (1892). 



S . We have seen only two specimens. The antennae are rather too short in 

 Uewitz's Hgnre, and the (visible) end-segment of the abdomen is too broad ; this 

 eighth tergite is rather long, and its ventral edge broadly siiinate. Tenth tergite 

 broad, triangular, obtuse ; sternite elongate-triangular, ape-'c obtuse and iiicrassate, 

 being convex beneath. Ciasper (PI. XXXIII. f. Ki) broad, dorsal margin with 

 a process (broken in the specimen dissected) ; harpe a large concave plate, narrowed 

 at end, strongly rounded veutro-basally, ape.K obtuse and beset with short spines 

 at the edge. Penis-sheatli with long club-shaped process (PI. XXX. f. 2G), which 

 ends in a small point. 



Ilah. West Africa. 



One S in the Berlin Museum (ff/pf) from Cliincho.xo ; Gobi Coast, 1 S in Mus. 

 TrinsT, received in e.xchange from G. Wevmer. 



LXIII. LIKOMA gen. nov.— Typns : apicalis. 



(S ?. Differs from Polyptyehus in having only one ])air of sjnirs to tlie hindtibia, 

 and in the absence of the paronychinm. 



Tongne very short and weak. Joint of palpns open. Ventral outline of 

 antennal segments slightly concave (side-view). Scales of abdominal tergites 

 narrow, many hair-like ; spines at the apices numerous but weak. Spurs very 

 short, not spinose, longer one of hindtibia scarcely longer than the tibia is broad. 

 Pulvillus present, jiaronychium absent, i.e. without lobes. Distal margin of forewing 

 dentate ; D'^ of hindwing curved, oblique, not longer than D', this very oblii|ue, 

 lower angle of cell sharply acuminate, t'lasper and eighth tergite with organ of 

 friction. 



Early stages not known. 



Ilab. East Africa. 



One species. 



229. Likoma apicalis spec. nov. (PI. V. f. 5,<?). 



c??. Body and wings dirty vinaceons, shaded with chocolate-brown scaling; 

 metanotum and base of abdomen above much darker. 



AVings, upperside. Forewing with blackish brown lines with pale borders, 



which make the line appear double : two almost straight, in basal half, the one 

 about 2 mm. proximally of base of M-, the other at base of IP ; two on disc, the 

 first straight, the second concave from costal margin beyond R', then turning basad 

 and curving towards hinder margin : a postdiscal line curved in nearly the same 

 way, indistinct beiiind ; the marginal area bordered by the postdiscal line and an 

 obliquely placed double spot at angle dark chestnut ; stigma small, white : fringe 



whitish between veins. Hindwing with three lines : proximal one just distal 



of base of M', nearly quite straight, the second somewhat curved in middle, nearer 

 the first behind than in front, both with pale outer border, the third less distinct, 

 nearly parallel to margin, also with pale border : the marginal area limited by this 



