new African Mollis. 437 



and a point below vein 3, with yellow patches before them 

 below costa and at middle. Hind wing white. 



On the right-hand side of the type the neuration is much 

 distorted, veins 6, 7 being strongly stalked, with a bar above 

 vein 7 as if to form part of a very long and incomplete 

 areole. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Ashanti, Obuassi {Bergman), 1 ? type. 

 Exp. 36 mm. 



Nearest to E. rubroguttata, Auriv. 



Euproctis fumitincta, sp. n. 



£ . Head and thorax reddish ochreous with a few brown 

 hairs ; palpi and fore legs in front suffused with fuscous ; 

 abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing brownish ochreous ; 

 the costal edge brown, black towards base ; a faint reddish- 

 brown shade at end of cell from below costa to inner margin. 

 Hind wing ochreous suffused with brown. Underside of 

 both wings suffused with fuscous brown. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Kuniasi (IVhiteside), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 20 mm. 



Nearest to E. cervina, Moore, from Ceylon. 



Euproctis xanthosoma, sp. n. 



£ . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-white ; 

 palpi orange ; frons with some orange hairs ; tarsi dark 

 brown banded with white ; abdomen orange-yellow with 

 dorsal series of black spots, the lateral tufts of hair with 

 brown mixed. Fore wing dark brown mixed with grey- 

 white ; a subbasal brown point in cell ; an antemedial series 

 of points formed of raised brown scales from cell to inner 

 margin ; a point in upper part of middle of cell and point 

 below middle of cell ; slight bars across end of cell and on 

 discocellulars ; a postmedial punctiform line formed of brown 

 scales, oblique from vein 4 to submcdian fold, then some- 

 what bent outwards to inner margin ; a punctiform sub- 

 terminal line slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal series 

 of blackish striae. Hind wing uniform dark brown ; the 

 underside with a greyish tinge. 



Hab. Sudan, White Nile, Kosti {Longstaff), 1 ^ type. 

 Exp. 20 mm. 



Very distinct from all other species known to me. 



Lacipa heterosticta, sp. n. 

 ? . Head, thorax, and abdomen white, the patagia with 



