Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. 6L 
TINEIDA. 
TINEIN A. 
EccoMPSOCTENA, gen. n. 
(Compsoctena, nom. gen.) 
Tyee. Hecompsoctena secundella, Wlsm. 
Antenne, 3 strongly bipectinate (34), the pectinations biciliate. 
Labial palpi short, slender, but roughly clothed, scarcely projecting 
beyond the rough scales of the face. Mazillary palpi and haust- 
ellum rudimentary. Head and face rough. Thorax rather roughly 
clothed. SF orewings scarcely narrower towards the base than 
beyond it, costa slightly convex, apex rounded, termen oblique, 
slightly convex. Neuration, 12 veins; 7 and 8 from a long com- 
mon stem, 7 to apex, 8 to above apex from a small supplementary 
cell, from which 9 and 10 also arise, these latter meeting at their 
extremity on the costal margin. Hindwings as broad as the fore- 
wings. Neuration, 8 veins, all separate; 6 and 7 separate and 
parallel. Hind legs thickly clothed, not hirsute. 
Eccompsoctena secundella, sp. n. (PI. II., fig. 11.) 
Antenne and palpi brown. Head and face ochreous. Thorax 
umber-brown. Forewings pale ochreous, thickly mottled, speckled, 
and suffused with umber-brown scales, the two colours alternating 
along the costa in unequal spaces throughout; a rather strong 
patch of umber-brown scales les at the end of the disc, which 
appears to be the only point at which this colour is more concen- 
trated than on the remainder of the wing-surface, although it 
somewhat prevails also towards the apex and tornus; cilia pale 
ochreous, with an umber-brown parting line along their middle, and 
another at their extremities. Hrp. al., 22 mm. Hindiwings purplish 
fuscous ; cilia cinereous, with a dark parting line near their base. 
Abdomen purplish fuscous, anal tuft inclining to ochreous. Legs 
dull ochreous. 
Type. &. 
Hab. French Congo—Kanegwé, Ogowé River (Rev. A. 
©. Good) ; unique. 
This has so much the appearance of Compsoctena pri- 
mella,Z., thatit might easily be mistaken for that species, 
but the neuration differs in the forking of veins 7 and 8, 
and the meeting of veins 9 and 10 towards the costa of 
the forewings, and the palpi are very much shorter. 
