468 Sir G. F. Hampson on 



is angled outwards, then again oblique and with a slight spot 

 on it below vein 2 ; a subterminal blackish line, arising from 

 terraen just below apex and slightly waved at veins 4, 3, 2 ; 

 cilia chequered with brownish. Hind wing white, with two 

 diffused brown bars from costa towards apex ; the hair of 

 inner area slightly tinged with rufous. 

 Hab. Natal, 1 <$ type. Exp. 44 mm. 



Stauropus melanosticta, sp. n. 



Head and thorax pale yellow-green ; palpi, frons, and 

 antennae rufous, the palpi black above; some chocolate- 

 brown on vertex of head, behind the tegulse, and on upper 

 edge of patagia ; pectus and legs yellowish tinged with 

 rufous ; abdomen yellowish suffused with rufous, the extre- 

 mity green irrorated with brown. Fore wing pale yellow- 

 green irrorated with black ; a series of small red-brown spots 

 on costa ; a subbasal brown striga below the cell, followed 

 by a black spot above vein 1 ; an oblique antemedial series 

 of slight blackish spots bent outwards to costa, sometimes 

 with a black streak from it to subterminal line in submedian 

 fold ; orbicular and re inform faintly defined by raised 

 greenish-white scales, closely approximated, the latter 

 narrow ; postmedial line slight, blackish, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4, traces of 

 another dentate line beyond it ; subterminal line formed by 

 a series of small rather dentate black spots, with more pro- 

 duced spots below veins 7 and 4 ; a crenulate black line just 

 before termen ; cilia brown, with a series of green points. 

 Hind wing yellowish tinged with rufous, the costal area 

 towards apex whitish, with three rufous bars ; cilia chequered 

 with whitish ; the underside white. 



Hab. S. Leone (Bartlett), ] $\ Gold Coast, Kumasi 

 {Whiteside) , 1 (J, 1 ? type. Exp. 40-42 mm. 



Allied to S. vernalis, Dist. 



Stauropus octoginta, sp. n. 



<£. Head and thorax grey-green mixed with white and 

 fuscous ; palpi white in front, black behind ; antennae 

 brownish, the shaft barred with white ; tegulae white at 

 tips; pectus and legs white mixed with blackish; abdomen 

 white, dorsally suffused with brown and with some black 

 hair at base, the extremity grey-green mixed with black, the 

 ventral surface tinged with yellow. Fore wing grey-green 

 thickly irrorated with black ; subbasal line black, angled 



