214 EXOTIC MICKOLEPIDOPTKEA. 



both sexes ; in J wliitish-ochreous tinged with grey, in $ grey : 

 cilia concolorous. 



Be.^in, Wi-rl, in May ; Gold Coast, Ahuri ( W. H. Patterson) ; 

 S. Nigeria, Ibadan, in October (Dr. W. A. Lamborti); five speci- 

 mens. Differs from Goochii by the whitish groundcolour, smaller 

 and less numerous dark markings of forewings, shorter and less 

 yellow genital tuft of c^" , but especially by the curious long flattened 

 frenulum ; in Goochii this is a short simple bristle in d , a group 

 of short bristles in 5 . The Benin examples are typical. 



Hapsifera marmarota, n. sp. 



(5 $ . 20-24 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint 

 sprinkled with blackish, tuft tinged with ochreous, terminal joint 

 with two rings of blackish irroration. Thorax white, .shoulders 

 marked with blackish. Abdomen ochreous- whitish. Forewings 

 elongate, rather narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termeu 

 obliquely rounded ; 8 and 9 out of 7 ; white ; costal f of wing, 

 and dorsal area beneath fold coarsely strigulated with yellow- 

 ochreous, remainder of wing coarsely strigulated with black ; three 

 large ferruginous-ochrous tufts near dorsum on anterior half, one 

 in disc at -|, a transverse series of three beyond middle, and a series 

 of smaller tufts I'ound termen, and one or two towards costa 

 posteriorly : cilia ochreous - whitish. Hindwings grey ; cilia 

 whitish-ochroous. 



Ntassaland, Mt. Mlanje ; Portuguese East Africa, E. of 

 Mt. Mlanje ; in November and December, eight specimens (Neave). 

 Type in Eritish Museum. 



Amydria scleropis, n. sp. 



(S 24 mm., 5 29 mm. Head and palpi grey-whitish, more or 

 less mixed with dark fuscous. Thorax fuscous, more or less mixed 

 with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, rather 

 narrow, costa gently arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, 

 oblique ; pale ashy-grey, suflusedly mixed and obscurely strigulated 

 with dark fuscous, with some black scales, especially on veins, cell 

 wholly suffused with darker ; in J two blackish trapezoidal spots 

 on fold before and beyond middle, broadest towards costa, separated 

 by a grey-whitish spot, these markings indicated in 5* hut much 

 less distinct; four small darker spots on posterior part of costa, 

 separated by paler interspaces ; dorsal and terminal areas some- 

 what whitish-tinged : cilia pale fuscous sprinkled with dark 

 fuscous. Hindwings grey ; cilia whitish-grej'. 



Nyassaland, Mt. Mlanje, in December (JSeave); two specimens. 

 Type in British Museum. 



