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:Si'. Praedora leucopbaea ■•^pec. uov. (I'l. liXVl. f. In, cT). 



J. I'lilvilliis narrow; IoIip nf ]iaroii\ cliiiun wry slender, short. Body greyish 

 white, with some chiyish scales here ami there ; abdomen appearing ringed with 

 c'hiy-eohmr owing to grease. 



AVings, ttppersiile. Forewing greyish white ; costal margin slightly concave 



as in preceding; markings clay-colonr ; an antemediau band of two lines, cnrved 

 rostad in front ; between it and base trsices of three lines, indicated at costal margin 

 by three s|iots ; a trace of a white stigma jnst ontside anteraedian band ; a broader 

 diseal liand. proxinially convex and distally concave between veins, consisting of 

 two lines with (he interspace filled in; lietweeu- this band and outer margin 

 a donlile line, I lie iinier one vestigial, sliglitly accentnated by vein-dots; the onter 

 one dislinct, consisting of half-moons which are convex distally ; a submarginal 

 line of vein-dots ; Cringe day-colonr, with small greyish white internervnlar 



spots. Hindwing pale clay-coloni-, with a vestige of deeper colonred submarginal 



band, which becomes a little more distinct in a side-view. 



L'lidt'r.tidc. grey, shaded with clay-colonr, distal margins more greyish white. 



Forewing with three faint jiarallel diseal lines, evenly cnrved, not ilentate, distances 

 between lower angle of cell, first line, third line, and distal margin abont the 



same. Hindwing also with three linos, the first just in front of apex of cell, 



abbreviated, the second about 1^ mm. ontside lower angle of cell, the third at R' 

 a little nearer cell than distal margin. 



Length of forewing: S, 2t) mm. 



Ilab. Luitpold Mountains, near Ikntha, Brit. E. Africa. 



One c? iu the Tring Museum, received from Messrs. Staudinger & Baug-Haas. 



XVII. COCYTIUS.-Typus: a,itan(8. 



Sph'ins, Cramer (imn Linn^, 175«), P«/<. E.v. i. p. 124 (1775). 



Cori/liui) Hitbiier, I'cr;. ic/r. Scliiii. p. 140 (1>*2"2) (type : (intaetis). 



I'lilitjiilifintiiis id., /.(■. (type: c!neiit/H.i). 



Aiii/)liimi/.r Poey, Cml. Le/i. t. 4 (18.32) (type : diijinurliel). 



M<ii:m.iila W.alker, List. Lr/i. Ins. B.M. viii. p. 2U0 (18.56) (partim). 



AmphhiniiJ- (I), Lucas, in Sagra, Hist. Cuba vii. p. 289 (1856). 



Aiicidrmjnatlms WallengreD, O/v. Sv. Vet. Ac. IluiitU. xv. p. 1.38 (1858) (type ; niilneus). 



c? ? . Differs from Profopfiiri' and Aniphimocd' in the third segment of the 

 ))alpus being prolonged into a pointed, conical, naked horn. Parouychium with 

 tiro lobes on each side. The third row of sj.ines on all in- only on the distal segments 

 of the foretarsus of the J developed into a comb. Antennal segments of? without 

 basal rows of jirolonged ciliae. 



(Spines of abdominal tergites heavy, conical, those of the 7th rcsp. !Sth 

 segment long ; no spines or only vestiges of such on the sternites. Mesonotnni 

 as a rule with two white dots, mostly covered by the ujiper edges of the mcso- 

 thoracic tegula. The scales in the middle of the abdominal tergites raised into 

 more or less cons(iicuous tufts or crests. The first segment of tlie foretarsus with 

 numerous short spines at the outerside ; in the c? the 3rd row dense on segments 

 1 to 5, or 2 to 5, or 3 to 5, and the spines directed laterad, and somewhat curved, 

 forming a }ieculiar kind of comb (PI. LXIV. f. 6. 9. 10) ; the spines of rows 

 1, 2 and 4 of segments 2 to o, and of rows 2 ajid 4 of segment 1 few in number, 



