new African Moths. 471 



Stauropus trichosa, sp. n. 



<$. Head, thorax, and abdomen chocolate-brown mixed 

 with greyish; palpi blackish, pale in front ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen reddish ochreons, the fore legs 

 redder. Fore wing chocolate-brown suffused with dark 

 brown and slightly irrorated with hairy greyish scales, the 

 costal area rather redder and irrorated with ochreous ; a 

 black point in end of cell and discoidal bar ; traces of a 

 double dark postmedial line, oblique from costa to veiu 6, 

 angled inwards at discal fold and outwards at vein 4, then 

 again oblique ; some ochreous points on costa towards apex ; 

 traces of a dark subterminal line, excurved at middle ; a 

 series of ochreous points on the cilia. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with chocolate-brown, the costal area deep chocolate- 

 brown with some white hairs ; an indistinct whitish post- 

 medial band, excurved at middle ; cilia whitish at tips ; the 

 underside ochreous white faintly tinged with rufous. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi (Whiteside), 1 <$ type. Exp. 

 38 mm. 



Stauropus agramma, sp. n. 



Antennae of female very minutely serrate. 

 ? . Head and thorax white with some black and brown 

 hairs ; palpi slight, black at sides ; abdomen white slightly 

 irrorated with black. Fore wing white rather thickly 

 irrorated with black-brown; a subterminal series of small 

 indistinct brown spots, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle. Hind wing white slightly tinged and irrorated with 

 brown; traces of a diffused brown postmedial line; the 

 underside white. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 ? type. 

 Exp. 46 mm. 



Stauropus sleniptera, sp. n. 



Antennpe of male bipectinate with very short branches, the 

 apical third somewhat laminate and pilose. 



<J . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey; antennas 

 white, the branches tinged with rufous ; abdomen reddish 

 brown tinged with fuscous, some grey hair at base and 

 extremity ; hinder part of pectus, hind legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white. Fore wing white very thickly 

 irrorated with dark brown ; a diffused straight dark subbasal 

 line ; antemedial line dark, diffused towards costa, bent 

 outwards below submedian fold ; postmedial line rather 

 diffused, dark, with short dark streaks beyond it on the veins, 



