336 Mr. H. J. Ehves on some 



be very well seen ; they are strongly hooked. The ends 

 of the fore wings being both damaged it is not possible 

 to see the fork of the subcostal shown in Butler's figure, 

 and his drawing of the recurrent vein in the cell is 

 incorrect, as I have seen in the specimen itself. 



Pedoptila Staudingeri, Kogenhofer, Sitz. Zool. Bot. 

 Ges., xxxviii., p. 61 (1888) ; id., Ann. k. k. Natur. 

 Hof. Mus., 1889, t. xxiii., 9, ^ . 



Sierra Leone, West Africa. Four males, one female, 

 in Mus. Staudinger. 



Of this Eogenhofer says that it is near P. nemopteridia, 

 but differs in the broad middle cell, which is closed by a 

 faint transverse nervure, the veins 5 and 6 springing 

 from a common stalk, as well as by the quite differently 

 formed hind wing, which shows inwardly an angular 

 projection ; as also by the rounded somewhat spoon- 

 shaped white point. This description and figure shows 

 that this species does not agree with Pedoptila in venation, 

 but has, like Thymara, two free internal veins, and tends 

 to confirm my opinion that venation is too variable in 

 this family to be used as a generic character. 



Genus Semioptila, Bull., Ann. Nat. Hist., 5th ser., 

 XX., p. 180 (1887). 



Semioptila torta, Butl., I. c. 



The type came from the Congo Eiver, and is in the 

 possession of Mr. P. Crowley, of Croydon. 



Though the specimen may be sufficient to distinguish 

 some characters, it is in such bad condition and so 

 nearly denuded of scales that it is certainly insufficient 

 from which to describe a species, and I am astonished 

 that Mr. Butler should have attempted to do so. It is, 

 however, judging by the remnants of the antennae and 

 by the abdomen, a female. 



This genus differs from the preceding ones in having 

 four branches to the subcostal vein, and, as far as I can 

 see from an examination of the type, which was kindly 

 lent me by Mr. Crowley, it has two free internal veins in 

 the fore wing, as the last species, and only two veins in the 



