BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 27. AFD. IV. N:0 7. 11 



Antennse nearly reaching the apex of the cell in male, 

 shorter in female, with the pectinations moderately lon g in 

 male, short in female. Före tibise of 

 normal length with a very short spine 

 at apex, mid tibise unarmed, mid and 

 hind tibise with 2 apical spurs only. 

 Wings broad with the outer margin 

 distinctly waved. Före wing with vein 

 o from well before angle of cell, 5 from 

 near upper angle, 6 free from upper 

 angle, 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 stalked, 11 free 

 from well before npper angle of cell; 

 lower discocellular long and sharply 

 angled in the middle; middle discocel- 

 lular short and erect. Hind wing with 

 vein 5 from near upper angle of cell, 

 6 and 7 stalked, 8 arched at base and 

 connected with the cell before middle by 

 an oblique bar; lower discocellular long oblique and distinctly 

 angled nearer its upper end. Frenulum and retinaculum well 

 developed in male, very weak and nearly rudimentary in 

 female. Apex of the abdomen bent down in female. 

 This genus is distinctly allied to Phiala. 



*1. L. despeda Felder Reise Novara Lep. t, 95 f. 5 (1868). 

 — Pl. 5 Fig. 1 ?. 

 Natal. 



"2. L.? conspersa Kirby An. N. H. (6) 18 p. 389 (1896). 

 Brit. East Afrika: Kisakon River. 



May, to judge from the description, be a species of Ghryso 

 polomo, a genus belonging to a quite different family. 



Fig. 5. Lichenopteryx 

 despecta (/. 



6. Poloma Walk. 



=^ Poloma Walker List 4 p. 858 (1855); type migulata 

 Walk. 



Proboscis aborted. Palpi porrect, very densely hairy, 

 closely pressed to the fröns, not or briefly reaching beyond 

 the fröns. Antennte moderately long, bipectinate. Tibiee 

 normal, unarmed, densely hairy; mid tibise with 2, hind 



