212 ACANTHACLISIS MAC LACHLANI. 



Length of forewing 41 — 48 mM. 

 » » hindwiug 37 — 43 » 



The two type-specimens from Roeburne, N. W. Australia, 

 in my collection, one in Mr. Mc. Lachlan's collection, that 

 he got from myself, and also two or three in the British 

 Museum. Mr. Mac Lachlan kindly informed me that the species 

 is very remarkable and surely new and therefore I name 

 it after him. 



According to the form of the spurs, this species cannot 

 be placed in the genus Acanthadisis Ramb., but when 

 splitting up it must be placed in a genus to which will 

 belong the known Australian species with two rows of 

 cells in the costal area of the forewings and with slightly 

 curved spurs. 



I think all specimens I saw are females, because I could 

 not discover anything of the pelotte. 



Cymothalis liheriensis^ n. sp. 



In the collection of the Leyden Museum are two spe- 

 cimens of this remarkable genus which are collected by 

 Mr. P. X. Stampfli at the Junkriver in Liberia, Africa. I 

 thought that I had eccentros Walker or didcis Gerstacker 

 before me, but they differ in several characters from these 

 species, so that I believe they belong to a new species or 

 to a new variety of one of the species above mentioned. 

 It may be that all described Cymothalis species are varieties 

 of ecceiitros Walker. 



Bead and thorax dark brown, eyes metallic, mouthparts 

 yellow, antennae whitish with brown tip and base. 



Prothorax much longer than broad, metathorax with 

 two small whitish lines. Abdomen redbrown, without any 

 markings, 



Legs white, with some black spines. Spurs as long as 

 the two first tarsal joints taken together. Near the tip of 

 the tibia of the hindlegs is a black spot at the outside; 

 feet whitish, witli dark articulations of the tarsis. Claws black. 



Notes from the Lieyden Mluseum, Vol. XXIV. 



