oe 
Lord Walsingham on Western 
Laspeyresia, Hb. 
Laspeyresia hemispherana, sp.n. (PI. IIT, fig. 23.) 
Antenne black. Palpi scarcely roughened beneath, apical joint 
short, porrect ; snow-white, second joint blackened above towards 
the base. #ead black, white above posteriorly. Thorax greyish, 
with a conspicuous white band across in front. Forewing slaty- 
grey, shaded with fuscous along the outer half of the costa ; with a 
large semicircular brownish patch on the middle of the dorsum, 
narrowly outlined with white ; several narrow very oblique whitish 
costal streaks and two very conspicuous clear white ones before 
the apex, the first very oblique, the second straight and parallel 
with the termen; a few whitish scales along the extreme base of 
the costa ; cilia whitish, a dark fuscous parting line along their 
base. Erp.al., 14mm, indwings brownish fuscous ; cilia pale 
whitish grey, a darker parting line along their base. Abdomen 
brownish fuscous. Legs greyish fuscous. 
Lupe Ss 
Hab. Sierra Leone—21, IV. (Dr. Clements) ; French 
Congo—Kangwé, Ogowé River (Rev. A. C. Good) ; two 
Specimens. 
Cypia, Hb. 
(= carpocapsa, Tr.) 
Cydia ? pretextana, sp. n. (PI. III., fie. 24.) 
Antenne ochrecus. [Palpi missing.] /Tead and thorax canary- 
yellow, the latter white with a greyish tinge beneath. Forewings 
canary-yellow blending to rich orange along the costa, and reddish 
ferruginous along the termen, with some reddish ferruginous 
blotches in a wide fasciated band across the middle and along the 
dorsum ; a series of about nine small black dots along the extreme 
costa, and numerous raised spots of bright steel-grey scales scattered 
about the darkened portions of the wing; a seriesof these starting 
at one-fourth from the base continues nearly parallel with the 
costa, these are chiefly circalar or oblong, those nearest to the costa 
being smaller than those below them ; at one-fifth from the apex 
is a longer steel-grey spot placed obliquely and pointing to a similar 
elongate spot within the lower half of the termen ; a long narrow 
spot of the same colour lies parallel with the termen below the 
apex and a shorter one immediately within the tornus ; from the 
last spot tending towards the base isa series of three large similar 
metallic circular spots, and another lies upon the fasciated band 
