56 Sir G. F. Hampson on new 



subterminal series of minute silver and black spots, hardly traceable 

 on costal half ; a terminal series of small black spots ; cilia black 

 mixed with whitish. Hind wing glossy white. Underside of fore 

 wing and costal area of hind wing suffused with red-brown. 



Hab. Br. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje {Neave), 1 6 , 1 $ type. 

 Exp. 26 mm. 



Genus Chilopsis, nov. 



Type, C. squamata. 



Proboscis small ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending about the 

 length of head and thickly scaled ; maxillary palpi triangularly 

 dilated with scales ; frons smooth, with small tuft of hair ; 

 antenna? of male minutely serrate and fasciculate ; tibiie fringed 

 with rather long hair. Fore wing narrow, the costa slightly 

 arched, the apex somewhat produced, the termen obliquely curved ; 

 vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle, 

 the discocellulars curved ; 6, 7 very shortly stalked or from cell ; 

 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from cell; the cell on underside clothed with 

 long scales. Hind wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 

 4, 5 from angle or stalked ; the discocellulars angled ; 6, 7 from 

 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Chilopsis squamata, sp. n. 



cf . Head and thorax ochreous suffused with red-brown, the 

 patagia with a few black scales ; abdomen red-brown to beyond 

 middle, then ochreous suffused with red-brown, the ventral surface 

 ochreous irro rated with brown. Fore wing ochreous suffused with 

 red-brown and irrorated with large raised black-tipped scales, the 

 costal area browner ; an indistinct diffused slightly sinuous and 

 very oblique brown line from just beyond the cell to inner margin 

 before middle ; a more distinct diffused oblique postmedial brown 

 line, slightly excurved below veins 7 and 2 ; a terminal series of 

 minute black spots ; cilia tipped with black except towards tornus. 

 Hind wing ochreous whitish tinged with brown, the inner area 

 suffused with deep red-brown ; a brown postmedial shade ; a 

 brown terminal line ; cilia with a brown line through them ; the 

 underside with small black- brown discoidal spot, the postmedial 

 line obsolescent below vein 5. 



Hab. Peru, Yahuarmayo, 1 J type. Exp. 64 mm. 



Doratoperas vinasella, Schaus, from Costa Rica, belongs to the 

 same genus, also Chilo incanellus, Hampson, from, Brazil, and 

 C. nigristigmellus, Hampson, from Brazil. 



(1 b) Chilo albimarginalis, sp. n. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale rufous ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with rufous, the last 

 with subventral series of dark brown points except towards 

 extremity. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale rufous and 



