new African Mot/is. 133 



Cossus fanti, 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 dark brown mixed with 

 grey. Fore wing greyish suffused and irrorated with red- 

 brown ; an oblique blackish subbasal line from costa to vein 1 

 and antemedial striga from vein 1 to inner margin ; a curved 

 slightly sinuous black medial line, with another line beyond 

 it nearly straight to vein 2, then sinuous ; the terminal area 

 faintly striated with brown and with some black striae from 

 costa; two irregularly sinuous blackish lines just before 

 termen. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Ashanti, Obuassi [Bergman), 1 $ type. 

 E.vp. 32 mm. 



Allied to C. terehroides, Feld. 



Coryphodema albifasciata, sp. n. 



$ . Head and tegulae fuscous mixed with white, the latter 

 with diffused black band near tips; patagia white, with some 

 fuscous hair near base ; pectus, legs, and abdomen brownish 

 grey. Fore wing grey-white irrora'ed with brown, some 

 pure white below base of costa, the cell and a fascia below it 

 pure white ; an oblique brown shade from beyond lower 

 angle of cell to submedian fold, in which there is a blackish 

 streak on median area ; the terminal area reticulated with 

 brown lines ; two more prominent lines from apical part of 

 costa to above vein 4, where they join and then emit oblique 

 streaks to termen at veins 4, 3, 2. Hind wing brownish 

 white, the veins and a terminal line brown. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Kokstad (Mrs. Pringle), 1 £ type. 

 Exp. 32 mm. 



Agrees with (Brachionycha) punctulata, "W Ik., = Corypho- 

 dema capensis, Feld., except that veins 6, 7 of the hind wing 

 are stalked almost to termen. 



Genus Trichocossus, nov. 



Proboscis absent; palpi minute, clothed with very long 

 hair ; antennae bipectinate with moderate branches to apex ; 

 head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with long hair, the last 

 with the anal tuft long ; tibiae with the spurs long. Fore 

 wing with the costa and inner margin nearly parallel, the 

 apex rounded, the termen evenly curved; veins la and b 

 anastomosing and curved upwards beyond middle ; 1 c slight ; 

 2 from close to angle of cell ; 3 from angle; a forked vcinlct 



