132 Sir G. F. Hampson on 



<$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with red- 

 brown and thickly irrorated with black ; antennae and legs 

 black. Fore wing white, with numerous black striae, the 

 costa and inner area (except at base) and tornus tinged with 

 rufous, the base and submedian fold to beyond middle irro- 

 rated with large black scales ; an antemedial black patch on 

 costa and rather triangular postmedial patch ; some small 

 black spots on medial part of costa and towards apex. Hind 

 wing white, with numerous black striae except on basal and 

 inner areas. 



Hab. Gold Coast, 1 £ ; S.Nigeria, Old Calabar (Cromp- 

 tori), 1 £ type. E.rp. 54-68 mm. 



Cossus agyptiaca, sp. n. 



Fore wing with veins 7, 8 shortly stalked from 9 beyond 

 the areole ; hind wing with veins 6, 7 from a point. 



<$ . Head and thorax dull reddish brown slightly mixed 

 with whitish; palpi whitish, with dark patch at base and 

 whitish tips ; lower part of frons whitish ; abdomen pale 

 golden brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 whitish tinged with pale golden brown, the tarsi black ringed 

 with white. Fore wing ochreous white thickly reticulated 

 with brown, the striae on costa, in end of cell, and at middle 

 of inner margin black ; the base of cell and inner margin 

 without reticulations, whitish spots in base of interspaces 

 beyond the cell, and subterminal patches without reticulations 

 between veins 8 and 5 and 4 and 2. Hind wing white, the 

 terminal half faintly reticulated with brown from costa to 

 submedian fold ; the underside with brown striae from costa. 



Hab. Egypt, Suez (J. J. Walker), 1 £ type. Exp. 46 mm. 



Cossus abyssinica, sp. n. 



Fore wing with veins 7, 8 shortly stalked from 9 beyond 

 the areole ; hind wing with veins 6, 7 from a point. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with 

 grey ; tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore wing grey 

 tinged and irrorated with brown ; some dark striae on costa; 

 traces of a curved antemedial line ; two dark striae at end of 

 cell and a slightly sinuous line from lower angle to inner 

 margin ; two irregularly sinuous postmedial lines conjoined 

 above inner margin ; a nearly straight subterminal line, with 

 another faint line beyond it, emitting some oblique striae to 

 termen above tornus. Hind wing grey-white tinged with 

 reddish brown. 



Hab. Abyssinia (Degen), 1 £ type. Exp, 30 mm. 



Allied to C. terebr aides, Feld. 



