538 Colonel C. Swinhoe on the Oeometridm of 



Amnemopsyche fragilis. 



Hylemera fragilis, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), iv, p. 236 

 (1879). 



3 $, Madagascar, including the type. 



Amnemopsyche puella. 



Hylemera 2yuella, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), iv, p. 236 

 (1879). 



1 ^, Madagascar (type). 



All these four names will probably fall into one some- 

 what variable species when we have more material to 

 work on. 



Genus Provola, nov. 



$ . Antennae shortly pectinated ; fore-wing with the cell more 

 than half the length of the wing ; discocellulars vertical and short ; 

 vein 2 from the middle of the cell, 3 from five-sixths before the end, 

 4 from the end, 5 from just above 4, 7 and 8 stalked, 11 out of 12, 

 9 and 10 coincident and anastomosing with 11, 9 again anastomosing 

 with 8, thus forming a double areole ; hind-wing with vein 5 absent, 

 7 from just before the end of the cell. 



Type F. (Aldis) 2)ostica, Walker. 



Provola postica. 



Aletis postica, Walker, Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasg., 1 (ii), p. 332, 

 pi. 5, f. 4 (1869). 



2 $, Congo, including the type. 



Superficially much resembling Aletis helcita, Clerck, 

 but that genus has vein 5 in the hind-wings present, and 

 has veins 7 and 8 connected by a bar near the base; the 

 neuration of this species is much more nearly akin to that 

 of the genus Pitthca and it is in every respect a true 

 Boarmid, except that the origin of vein 5 of the fore-wings 

 is close above that of vein 4, which is not usual in this 

 family. 



Genus Pitthea, Walker, ii, 463 (1854). 



Turckheimeria, Dewitz, Verb. Leop.-Carol. Akad., 



xlii, p. 81 (1881). 

 Jlymenocharta, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv, p. 84 (1897). 



