Tropical Africa in the National Collection. 519 



Geolyces attesaria. 



Lyces attesaria, Walker, xx, 249, $. 

 Geolyces attesaria, Warr., 1. c, i, p. 441. 

 Aiitopliylla 'pallida, Warr., I.e., p. 451, $ . 



1 t, Congo (type). _ 



Warren's type is in coll. Rothschilil; it was at first 

 supposed to have come from South America, but the 

 locality label on it was incorrect, many examples having 

 since been received at Tring from South Africa. 



The sexes differ considerably in outline. 



Geolyces in^quilinea. 



Miantochora in^quilinea, Warr., Nov. Zool., ii, p. 145 



(1895) ; and iv, p. 401, note (1897). 

 Miantochora incolorata, Warr., 1. c, iv, p. 64. 



2 ^, Sierra Leone. 



The types, both males, are in coll. Rothschild; inmqtii- 

 linea was first said to have come from S. America and 

 afterwards from S. Africa ; incolorata is from Warri, Niger 

 Coast Protectorate. 



Geolyces rufaria, nov. 



(^ . Antennpe brown, palpi brown above, oclireous beneath and 

 at the tips, frons ochreous, head, body, and wings of a uniform 

 ochreous-red colour; the ground-colour is really ochreous, but the 

 body and wings are much striated and irrorated with red-brown; 

 there are indications of a central thin grey band across both wings, 

 also of an outer band, much as in m3Rquilinea,Warr. ; the under-side 

 is pale dull ochreous, very uniform in colour, with a few grey striations 

 and indications of the outer band of the fore-wings. 



Expanse of wings Ij^^ inches. 



Hah. Old Calabar (3fiss Kingsley). 



Genus Psilocerea, Saalm., Bericht. Senck. Ges., 1880, p. 

 292. 



Eupsamma, Warr., Nov. Zool., i, p. 461 (1894). 

 Acanthoscelis, Warr., 1. c, viii, p. 215 (1901) 



(prseocc). 

 Xanthisthisa, Speiser, Berl. Ent. Zeit., xlvii, p. 140 

 (1903). 



