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throughout); 2 and 3 from a recurved common stem, others 
separate. Hindwings slightly broader than the forewings, trape- 
zoidal, costal third of the wing thickly scaled throughout beneath. 
Neuration, 8 veins ; 3 and 4 from a point, 6 and 7 closely approxi- 
mated at base. Legs, hind tibie thickly clothed, spurs very long. 
Allied to Nothris and Ypsolophus, but differing in the 
coincidence of veins 7 and 8 of the forewings. 
Hpicharma nothriforme, sp.n. (Pl. I., fig. 3.) 
Antenne stone ochreous, faintly annulate. Pa/pi, rich brown 
exterrally on the second joint ; apical joint and a narrow fringe at 
the end of the second joint stone-ochreous. Head and thorax 
stone-ochreous. Horewings pale stone-ochreous with three black 
spots, one on the middle of the fold, one on the middle of the disc 
above and beyond it, the vhird at the end of the cell slightly below 
the line of the previous one; a very faint shade of greyish brown 
on the apical portion of the wing is interrupted by a pale waved 
fasciaform mark which extends from the commencement of the 
costal cilia, bulging outwards and reverting to the dorsum before 
the tornus ; a few ill-defined greyish brown spots around the apex 
and termen ; cilia pale stone-ochreous. vp, al.,23 mm. Hini- 
wings grey : cilia stone-ochreous with a greyish shade near their 
base. .Lbdomen greyish. Legs stone-ochreous. 
Typeas 2. 
Hab. French Congo—Kangwé, Ogowé River (Rev. 
A. C. Good) ; unique. 
This species has much the appearance of Nothris 
verbascella, Hb., but the neuration is different. 
PaPpoPpHOoRUs, gen. n. 
(axmos = thistle down, péperv = to bear.) 
Tyee. Pappophorus eurynotus, Wism. 
Antenne (#), unidentate, basal joint without pecten. Labial 
palpi, second joint porrect, clothed at the end and above and 
beneath soas to make the joint appear triangular ; apical joint 
slender, recurved, twice the length of the second joint. Mazillary 
palpi short, distinct. ITaustellum well-developed. J/ead and thorax 
smooth, Jorewings with the costa conspicuously bulged before 
