new African Moths. 479 



pointed conical prominence above; eyes large, round; an- 

 tennae of: male long and ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales and without crests ; build very slender ; legs very 

 long, the tibiae smoothly scaled and with the spurs long ; 

 abdomen long and slender and without crests. Fore wing 

 very long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 touching 10 

 just beyond the areole. Hind wings with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 

 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked; 8 approxi- 

 mated to the cell to near middle. 



Leucania angustipennis, Saalm. Lep. Madag. fig. 252, 

 possibly belongs to this genus. 



Lamoriodes metaleuca, sp. n. 



<$ . Head and thorax blackish brown ; pectus and abdo- 

 men grey-white. Fore wing grey-brown tinged with fuscous 

 at base, the veins and discal fold streaked with black ; traces 

 of an obliquely curved antemedial line; a black discoidal 

 poiut ; postmedial line indistinct and faintly defined by 

 greyish on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 strongly incurved to inner margin near antemedial line ; a 

 fine black terminal line. Hind wing creamy white, the 

 terminal area tinged with brown ; a fine dark terminal line ; 

 the underside with dark discoidal point. 



Hab. Sierra Leone {Clements), 1 J type. Exp. 22 mm. 



Lamoriodes metaphcea, sp. n. 



S . Head and thorax black-brown ; pectus and abdomen 

 greyish fuscous. Fore wing fuscous brown, the veins and 

 discal fold streaked with blackish ; traces of a dark ante- 

 medial line bent inwards below submedian fold and with 

 white points at median nervure and vein 1 ; traces of a dark 

 postmedial line with white points at the veins, very oblique 

 below vein 6 to middle of inner margin ; a terminal series of 

 minute black spots defined on inner side by white points. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown with a slight pale line at base of 

 cilia. 



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

 28 mm. 



Scrancia discalis, sp. n. 



Antennae of female bipectinate with moderate branches to 

 apex ; fore wing with the areole very long. 



