(434) 



Neurotoca Warr. 



This genus must be removed from Group VI., where — pending the discovery 

 of the cJ— I left it in my revision {Gen. Inn. 12'J, p. 228). By the kiuduess of 

 Mr. A. .J. T. Jause of Pretoria I have now been able to examine 2 S6 of 

 .V. emiorhoda Hmpsn., and to add one to my own collection, and 1 find that the 

 frenulum is present. The genus may be placed next to yeromia, from which it 

 diifers in the pectinate antenna in both sexes, crested abdomen (this should be 

 added to the diagnosis), etc. In the generic key it will separate from Pseudhemithea 

 under No. 23 : 



Antenna j)ectinate ...... Neurotoca. 



Antenna not pectinate ...... Pseudhemithea. 



06. Diplodesma ussuriaria (Brem.). 



lodes iis>:tinaria Brem. ^fem. Ar,„l. Sri. Sl.-P/t. viii. ]>. 77. t. (!. f. 24 (1804). 

 Ilemithea tisxiiriiina Stgr. Oil. (ed. 3). p. L'C5 (1901) ; Prout, Gen. Im. 129. p. 170 (1912). 

 Hemilheti eliila Wileman, Ti: Eiit. Si>c. Loud. p. ,S37 (1911). 

 Diplodesnm elnla Prout, Gen. Ins. 129. p. 252 (1912). 



I had never been able to satisfy myself as to the species represented by 

 Bremer's poor fignre and brief description until September last, when Herr R. 

 Piingeler, of Aachen, kindly sent for my inspection examples from his collection. 

 There is no doubt that his determination is correct, and that the insect is the 

 same which has been recently described by Wileman as ehita and which I placed 

 in JJijjlodffma on account of the stalking of SC. Like my pudentifimhria, how- 

 ever, it shows in fresh specimens a crested abdomen, and it is still an open question 

 whether ray Diplodesma, sect, iii., would be best treated as an aberrant section 

 of Ilemithea or of Diplodotiinit., or as a separate genus intermediate between 

 the two. 



'••T. Omphax ornatimargo spec. nov. 



?, 20-31 mm. Face, vertex, palpus, and base of antenna deep purple-red ; 

 collar ferruginous. Thorax green above, j)ale beneath. Fore and middle legs 

 partly purple-red. Abdomen pale, anteriorly more ochreous, a minute ferruginous, 

 purple-mixed crest at base. 



Forewing broad, even for this genus, termeu slightly more ventricose than 

 in the other species ; >S(I' in both examjiles anast(niiosing at a point with (", free 

 from 8(J-, W? extremely obli(iue ; grounil-colour as in pldiitnriii (inen., costal 

 margin bright yellowish ferruginous, the edge basally dark purple-red ; termen 

 ferruginous, overlaid with a reddish-fuscous pattern consisting of somewhat 

 triangular markings, their apices on the veins, their bases narrowly connected 

 by reildish-fuscoiis siiading between ; fringe ferruginous, spotted and dusted with 



reddish-fnscous. ILindwiiuj the same, the costal margin paler, not marked with 



red at base. 



Under-surface dirty pale yellowish, somewhat dusted with reddish. 



Minna, Northern Nigeria, September 17, 11)10, and July liilu (Scott Macfie), 

 type and co-type respectively in cull. Brit. Mus., the latter the larger. 



98. Rhodesia depompata sj)ec. nov. 



S ? , 25-2(5 mm. Face dirty olive with a slight reddish admixture ; vertex 

 white, occiput pale green. Palpns in i shortish, third joint not strongly elongate; 



