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II. Western Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. By 
The Right lHonble. Lorp Watsinauamu, M.A., 
GDS ERS. 
[Read Dec. 2nd, 1896.] 
Prates II. and III. 
I am indebted to the Rev. Dr. W. J. Holland for the 
opportunity of making known some interesting additions 
to the African Micro-lepidoptera from a locality hitherto 
unvisited by any collector of these small but instructive 
forms. Kangwé, on the Ogowé River (where the Rev. 
A. C. Good collected the specimens communicated by 
Dr. Holland), is situated only two miles south of the 
equator, and the collection, as might be expected, affords 
several examples of the more brilliant colouring and 
abnormal structure which distinguishes the equatorial 
fauna in other regions. The specimens, unfortunately, for 
the most part are in only moderate condition, but are 
sufficient to indicate that an experienced collector could 
find a rich harvest of novelties if he should possess also 
the qualifications of a sportsman and be indifferent to the 
aggressive curiosity of the very numerous lions which, I 
am informed, make night collecting absolutely impossible, 
and in this instance confined it exclusively to lamp-light 
on the upper floor. 
This small collection still further emphasises the 
alliances undoubtedly prevalent between the Micro- 
lepidoptera of the two regions lying on opposite sides of 
the great dividing barrier of the Atlantic Ocean, especially 
about those degrees of latitude tending southward from 
the equator. But, while emphasising this fact, the 
collection possesses a still greater interest from the 
evidence which it affords that the African continent forms 
a strong connecting link with the eastern as well as with 
the western fauna. Some of the genera included in this 
paper, such as Idiothawma and Mictopsichia, have repre- 
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