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Mr. Dudgeon calls the species the ‘‘ Cocoa-bark Sapper,” 
and it is thus referred to in his ‘ Fourth Report on Agricultural 
and Forest Products of the Gold Coast to Secretary of State 
Colonies, 1909.’ 
A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF ORNEODIDZ (Lep.). 
By T. Barnsricce Furtcuer, R.N., F.E.S. 
MIcROSCHISMUS, Noy. gen. 
(paxpes, short ; TXITUOS, a cleft.) 
Maxillary palpi absent. Labial palpi very long, at least twice 
length of head, densely scaled. Fore wing cleft into six segments 
from beyond two-fifths; hind wing cleft into six segments within 
half. 
Type.—M. fortis, Wlsm. (T.E.S. 1881, 284-5, t. xi. f. 49). 
The above forms the fourth described genus of the Orneo- 
did, which may now be tabulated generically as follows :— 
(Hind wing cleft into seven segments...........sesseceees Triscedecia. 
(Ebind wine clotininto Six SCSMERtG, 5.00. .<ncs.+.s0notencemoonvestesse 2. 
(Fore wing cleft from at least one-third ...............00000 Orneodes. 
(Hore wing cleft tromabout half only. .....2<cccs1s+aenesscseccavecs ace 3. 
(Labial palpi at least twice length of head ......... Microschismus. 
(Labial palpi not exceeding length of head ...................64 Pelia. 
Besides the above-quoted type the genus Microschismus 
contains the following new species :— 
Microschismus antennatus, 0, sp. 
3. Exp.16mm. Labial palpi very long (about thrice length of 
head), down-curved, densely scaled so that proportions of joints are 
not visible but third joint is apparently very short, fuscous. Maxil- 
lary palpi absent. Haustellum feebly developed. Head roughly 
scaled, fuscous. Antenne fuscous, each joint emitting a pair of 
bristles slightly longer than length of joint on which they arise. 
Thorax fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, suffused with blackish; anal tuft 
pale fuscous. Legs fuscous grey; posterior tibize with two pairs of 
moderate, unequal spurs. Fore wing cleft into six segments ; first 
cleft from about two-thirds, second from slightly beyond half, third 
from about two-thirds, fifth from about half, fourth from halfway 
between third and fifth ; segments linear: light greyish-brown with a 
very slight yellow tinge minutely irrorated with dark-fuscous dots, 
especially evident on basal third: bases of third, fourth, and fifth 
clefts outlined in dark-fuscous, forming a conspicuous line running 
obliquely inwards across the wing; first segment crossed by two in- 
distinct dark-fuscous bands at about one-third and two-thirds of its 
length; remaining segments cut by a moderate dark-fuscous band at 
about three-fifths of their lengths, preceded and followed by slightly 
paler spaces; apices of all segments with a blackish dot. Cilia 
