new African Moths. 489 



costa to vein 3, with two whitish lunules on it below the 

 eosta ; hind wing whitish, the costal area suffused with 

 rufous and with fuscous before and beyond the subterminal 

 line, a small blackish discoidal spot. 



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

 E.rjj. 48 mm. 



Genus Tricholoba, nov. 



Type T. (Antheua) carteri, Diuce. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi upturned, slender, reaching 

 about to vertex of head ; frons smooth, with large tuft of 

 hair above; eyes large, round ; antennas in both sexes 

 bipectinate with long branches, the apical part laminate ; 

 thorax clothed with rough hair only and without crests; 

 fore tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the mid and hind 

 tibise fringed with long hair ; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen obliquely 

 curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from just before angle of 

 cell ; 5 from above middle of discocellulars ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole, 6 from middle of 

 arcole, 8 from beyond it ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 very large lobe on costa near base fringed with thick long 

 hair on its outer edge extending to towards apex ; veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 shortly stalked : 8 approximated to the cell to towards 

 extremity. 



Tricholoba airiclathrata, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax pale ochreous yellow mixed with 

 some reddish brown ; palpi dark brown behind ; fore legs 

 suffused with brown in front, the tarsi banded with brown ; 

 abdomen pale yellow, with some reddish brown at base of 

 dorsum. Fore wing creamy white irrorated with chocolate- 

 brown ; a subbasal chocolate-brown point below costa, with 

 an oblique elliptical patch below it extending to below the 

 cell and rather broken up by some of the ground-colour ; 

 two antemedial points below the costa, with traces of a double 

 waved line from them to inner margin; a small elliptical 

 chocolate annulus in end of cell intersected by a streak of 

 the ground-colour in discal fold ; a large elliptical chocolate 

 patch at lower angle of cell, hooked on discocellulars 

 and broken up by pale streaks on the veins ; traces of a 

 double postrnedial line, the lines widely separated and oblique 

 to vein 4, then inwardly oblique and more approximated ; 

 a conical patch of chocolate marks much broken up by the 



