280 EXOTIC HICP.OLEriDOlTHKA. 



COSMOPTERYGlDiE. 



Cosmopteryx emmolybda, n, sp. 



(^ . 9 mm. Head and thorax leaden-metallic. Palpi leadcn- 

 grey, terminal joint whitish with dark grey lateral line. Antenna? 

 whitish-grey. Abdomen greyish-ochreous, segmental margins and 

 sides silvery. Forewings narrow-lanceolate, apex very long- 

 candaie ; blackish, sometimes mixed with deep bronzy; markings 

 silvery-leaden-metallic ; a basal patch occupying more thon i of 

 wing, edge very oblique ; a transverse bar before middle, followed 

 by some scattered whitish hair-scales on dorsal half; a transverse 

 spot from dorsum beyond middle of wing, and an elongate mark 

 along costa beyond this ; a line along termen almost from dorsal 

 spot to apex : cilia dark grey. Hindwings and cilia dark grey. 



Nyassaland, Mt. Mlanje, in February and March {Neave) ; 

 two specimens. Type in British Museum. 



Pyroderces em"brochota, n. sp. 



S . 9 mm. Head white, crown faintly pinkish-tinged. Palpi 

 white, second joint dark fuscous except towards apex. Thorax 

 brownish-ochreous, with a fine long lateral grey hair-pencil from 

 beneath hiudwing, becoming blackish towards tip. Forewings 

 lanceolate ; light ferruginous-brown ; a white dot towards dorsum 

 at f of wing, and a slight mark beyond middle; a short fino oblique 

 whitish line from costa at -g-, and a whitish mark in disc beyond it; 

 an oblique white line from costa beyond middle, terminating in a 

 very elongate white ring placed in disc posteriorly, beneath this 

 a blackish dot on tornus ; a white oblique strigula from costa 

 towards apex : cilia whitish, round apex with a brownish median 

 line sprinkled with black. Hindwings rather dark grey : cilia 

 whitish-grey. 



Nyassaland, Mt. Mlanje, in April {Neave) ; one specimen. 

 Type in British Museum. 



Pyroderces spodoclitha Meyr. 



Pupa unusually stout, smooth, entirely without spines ; dehiscing 

 by a longitudinal slit in head, not breaking up, antennal cases fixed 

 in pupal skin, abdominal segments apparently all fixed (?), wiug- 

 cases firmly attached and reaching to end of 7th segment. 



COLONOPHORA, n. g. 



Head with appressed scales; ocelli present; tongue developed. 

 Antennae 1, in 6 simple, basal joint elongate, without pecten. 

 Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint with appressed scales, 

 rough towards apex beneath arjd sliglitly above, terminal joint 



