Old World Lymctntriidc'e in the National Collection. 389 



costal line, the median vein, discoidal, and veins 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 

 7 brown ; hind-wings with the veins grey near the outer margin ; 

 both wings are semi-hyaline, and have very minute grey irrorations ; 

 no other markings. 



Expanse of wings '2.h inches. 



Hal). KiVER Niger, Sapele, 5 $ {Sampson). 



StRACENA PROMEL.ENA. 



Sulychra. promcbvna, Holland, Ent. News, Phil., iv, p. 61, 

 l± 3, f. 11 (1893). 



1 $ from R. Gaboon. 



Genus Sapelia, nov. 



S 1 9 ■ Palpi upturned and hairy, very short in the female ; 

 antennas bipectinated, with cilia and fine spines at the ends of the 

 branches ; fore-wings with the costa nearly straight but rounded 

 before apex, which is also rounded, the outer margin curved, not 

 very oblique, but nearly as long as the costa and rounded at the 

 hinder angle, the hinder margin also rounded ; vein 2 from middle of 

 cell, curved hinclwards in its middle, 4 from angle of cell, 3 from 

 half-way between 2 and 4, 5 from a little above the angle, discoidal 

 angled inwards, 6 from upper angle, 7, 8 and 9 stalked, 10 from just 

 before end of cell, 11 from one-third; hind-wings rounded, vein 2 

 from a little beyond middle of cell, 3 from a little before end, 4 and 

 5 from the end, but their origins not quite touching, discoidal angled 

 inwards, 6 and 7 stalked, the stalk about half the length of the 

 veinlet. 



Type, Sapelia limpida, nov. 

 Sapelia LmpiDA, nov. 



(^ , $ . Antenna^ black, body above and below, legs and wings 

 pure white ; wings of the male very thinly clothed, of the female 

 hyaline ; costa of fore-wings and veins of both wings more or less 

 covered with ochreous scaling, making them somewhat prominent ; 

 the male has a grey dot at the lower extremity of the end of the cell ; 

 no other markings. 



Expanse of wings ^ l^'V, 2 2/v inches. 



Hal. River Niger, Sapele (Sampson). 

 Sapelia flavipectus, nov. 



9 . Like limpida, but the antennee are only blackish at the tips, 

 the rest being yellowish ; the head, frons, entire body below, and 



