8 Sir G. r. Hampson on new 



sliglit dark discoidal points and brownish shades below and 

 beyond end of cell ; postmedial line double^ dentate, with a 

 dark spot on the inner line at discal fold, incurved at sub- 

 median fold ; the apex with brown patch ; a terminal series 

 of blackish strire and a brown line tlirough the cilia. 

 Hah. E. Peru, Pozuzo, 2 ? type. Exp. 30 mm. 



(40 fl) ^Sylejpta desmialis, sp. n. 



Hind tibise o£ male with very thick tufts of hair on upper 

 side. 



c^ . Fuscous ; palpi at base, pectus, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen white; legs black and white. Pore wing with sub- 

 basal hyaline point in cell ; quadrate antemedial spots in cell, 

 the hitter with a sitiiikir spot below it; a lunulate mark just 

 beyond the cell comi)osed of five almost conjoined spots 

 between veins 3 and 8, the two middle ones larger. Hind 

 wing with oblique dark medial line ending above tornus ; a 

 quadraj;e discoidal hyaline spot with a short dark line on its 

 outer edge ; cilia of both wings with a fine white line at 

 base. 



Hub. S. Nigeria, Lagos {Boag), ] 6, Sapele (F. W. 

 Samjjson), 3 ^ type. Exp. 24 mm. 



(40 c) Sylepta melanomma, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with dark 

 brown ; palpi white with blackish bands at middle and 

 extremity ; pectus and legs ochieous white, the fore tibise 

 with fuscous band at extiemity; abdomen ochreous white 

 banded with brown, the terminal segment with blackish 

 patch, the ventral surface white. Pore wing ochreous 

 white ; somewhat oblique blackish subbasal and antemedial 

 bands, the latter confluent with a spot on its outer side 

 below the cell ; somewhat quadrate blackish spots in end 

 • of cell and on discocellulars, confluent on median nervure, 

 and a band from loMcr angle of cell to inner margin ; the 

 terminal area broadly blackish with a cupreous gloss, an 

 ochreous-white postmedial bar on it from costa to vein 6 ; 

 cilia whitish. Hind wing ochreous white ; a faint diffused 

 dark subbasal band ; a blackii^h discoidal spot ; a dark post- 

 medial band, oblique to vein 3, then bent inwards to lower 

 angle of cell and oblique to above tornus ; terminal area 

 blackish with a cupreous gloss, joined at vein 2 hy a spur 

 from postmedial band and with an ochreous-white sub- 



