moths allied to Ilimantoptenis. 335 



they are emitted from a short common footstalk. In 

 Himantopterus they start from the same point, as also 

 in Pedoptila. There is also only one free internal vein 

 instead of two, and in the hind wings Doratopterijx is 

 described as having two simple longitudinal veins, whilst 

 Pedoptila, according to Butler, has three. I, however, 

 can only see two in the type of P. nemopteridia. Kogen- 

 hofer says that the venation of Pedoptila Staudingeri 

 differs in many points from that of P. nemopteridia, as 

 shown in Butler's figure ; and the comparison of the 

 two genera by Butler in Ann. Nat. Hist., 5th ser., vol. 

 xvi., p. 51, seems to me to show that there is hardly 

 sufficient difference to separate them. 



Doratopteryx afra, Eogenhofer, I. c, p. 24, figs. 1,2, $ . 

 Discovered by Marno between Sadani and Koaldora, 

 near Zanzibar in East Africa. Type in Imperial Museum 

 at Vienna. I have not seen this species. 



Doratopteryx plumigera, Butl., Ann. Nat. Hist., 6th 

 ser., vol. i., p. 48, fig. 1 (1888). 



Collected by Jackson at the mouth of the Eiver Ozy, 

 East Africa (not anywhere near the mountain Kiliman- 

 jaro, as stated in Mr. Butler's description). 



Of this there are six more or less broken specimens in 

 the British Museum, which in colour resemble P. 

 nemopteridia very closely. The two sexes difier in the 

 antennae much as Thymara does, but the hind wings are 

 not broader in the male than in the female. 



It is evidently very near D. afra, which I only know 

 by description. The fawn-coloured hairs, however, 

 extend to the end of the cell. I am unable to see 

 clearly the veins in the hind wing, as shown by Mr. 

 Butler. They differ from those shown in his figure of 

 Pedoptila as they do from those of Semiop)tila. To enable 

 an accurate comparison to be made they must be care- 

 fully drawn by the same artist on an enlarged scale. 



Pedoptila nemopteridia, Butl., Ann. Nat. Hist., 5th ser., 

 vol. XV., p. 341, fig, ; Waterhouse, Aid, pi. 26, 

 f. 165, 1, <? . 



Cape Coast, West Africa. Collected by Swanzy. 



In the type-specimen the claspers are open, and can 



