18 Mr. A. J. T. Janse oti netv South African 



Sir George Hampson informed me that lie th ought this 

 species ought to come into a new genus, but I do not think 

 it sufficiently distinct from Staiina, as far as I know that 

 genus from the description. I thus leave it here for the 

 present, as it differs from Staiina only in the following 

 characters : Maxillary palpi two-jointed and with long 

 hair, antennae with basal joint moderate, cylindrical, 

 shaft rounded and without scales above the basal joint, 

 ciliated ; fore-wing with vein 1 1 from upper angle ; 6 from 

 nearly § of disco-cellulars. 



Calamotropodus, gen. nov. 



Type grisella. 

 Proboscis minute; palpi obliquely porrect, about two times 

 length of head ; first joint small, second joint four times as long as 

 first joint, broad at middle, inner edge well curved outwardly, 

 outer edge slightly curved inwardly; third joint about one- third 

 of second joint and pointed, second and third joint covered with 

 dense hairs and scales; maxillary palpi apparently absent; frons 

 with a large conical prominence which ends bluntly and forms a 

 circle, it is covered with hairs and scales; antennae laminated 

 and ciliated. Fore- wing rather broad, about one-third of length; 

 costa gently arched; apex rounded, termen oblique and arched; 

 vein 2 from well before lower angle ; 3 and 5 well apart ; 4 absent ; 

 6 from before upper angle; 8, 9 stalked for one- third of 8; 10 free 

 and from half-way uj^per angle and origin of vein 11; 11 free; 

 12 parallel to upper median and vein 11. Hind- wing with vein 2 

 from near lower angle; 5 from angle; 3 and 4 absent; C and 7 

 very shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with 7 for about -3- of 7. 



I have little doubt that this genus comes near Calamo- 

 tropa, from which it differs in the position of vein 2 in 

 fore-wing and in vein 8 of hind-wing anastomosing with 7, 

 also in the absence of the maxillary palpi and in the 

 presence of the tongue, though it is rudimentary. 



Calamotropodes grisella, sp. n. 

 Male. Palpi, head, thorax and abdomen above milky white; 

 abdomen above whitish; palpi irrorated at sides with black; 

 tegulae tinged with cream-buff (xxx) ; fore-wing with a broad 

 cream-buff fascia from base to near apex, well defined costad, 

 diffused on the other side and edged with blackish on upper median 

 and vein 8, extending to lower median and beyond the cell broken 



