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VIII. A remarlMhh neiv Le'pido]otcrom Insect from Zulu- 

 land. By Sir George F. Hampsox, Bart,, B.A., 

 F.Z.S. 



[Read April 1st, 1903.] 



Genus Apoprogones, nov. 



Proboscis fully developed ; ]>alpi porrect extending about the 

 length of head, the 1st and 2nd joints fringed with long hair below, 

 the 3rd rather long, smoothly scaled ; frons smooth with large tuft 

 of woolly hair ; eyes widely separated on vertex of head, large, 

 round, naked, overhung by long cilia ; ocelli absent ; antennae 

 simple, dilated into a club before the terminal hook ; vertex of 

 head and thorax thickly clothed with rough scales mixed with some 

 hair; pectus with long hair ; tibite smoothly scaled, the mid-tibire 

 with one, the hind-tibite with two pairs of moderate spurs ; abdomen 

 wdth some rough scales and hair on dorsum especially towards base. 



Apoprogones hcsperistis, 6 \ 



Fore-wing broad with the costa arched towards apex which is 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved ; vein la forming a fork with 

 lb ; Ic absent ; 2 from two-thirds length of cell ; 3 from before 

 angle ; 5 from above middle of discocellulars ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9, 10 strongly stalked from just before upper angle, 10 from long 

 beyond 7 ; 11 from cell, straight ; retinaculum a corneous bar 

 from subcostal nervure ; frenulum strong. Hind-wing with the 

 costa moderately arched ; the termen excised from below apex to 

 vein 4, then crenulate, the inner margin long ; the inner area narrow, 

 vein la not extending to tornus ; Ic absent ; vein 2 from near angle 

 of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 from above middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 bent down and touching cell near base, 

 then widely separated. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1903. — PART I. ( APRIL) 



