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widens, a white patch slightly irrorated with brown between 

 veins 4, 3, another between extremities of veins 7, G, and 

 some white irrorated with brown on costa towards apex ; 

 vein 7, the median nervure, and veins arising from it and 

 extremities of veins 6, 7 streaked with white. Hind wing 

 white. 



Hab. Sierra Leone {Morgan), 1 ? type. Exp. 34 mm. 



Bombycidae. 

 Trilocha obliquisigna, sp. n. 



Fore wing with the termen evenly curved. 



<$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale yellow slightly mixed 

 with red-brown ; palpi and sides of frons red-brown ; legs 

 red-brown in front. Fore wing pale yellow sparsely irrorated 

 with red-brown, a brownish patch on termen below apex ; 

 the antemedial area with two slight red-brown marks on 

 costa and three very indistinct curved waved lines ; an 

 obliquely curved blackish discoidal striga ; an oblique post- 

 medial red-brown bar from costa ; two red-brown subterminal 

 lines, the first indistinct and slightly waved, the second more 

 distinct and waved, forming a small spot at costa ; a rather 

 elongate red-brown apical mark ; cilia reddish brown. Hind 

 wing pale yellow slightly irrorated with red-brown, the inner 

 margin with three red-brown spots ; the antemedial area 

 with three very indistinct waved lines ; a slight discoidal 

 point ; two curved, waved postmedial lines, not reaching 

 costa and closely approximated towards inner margin ; a 

 diffused subterminal red-brown shade from vein 4 to inner 

 margin ; cilia red-brown ; the underside with two discoidal 

 points, the two postmedial lines more distinct and reaching 

 the costa. 



Hab. N. Angola, Kibokolo do Zombo (Leivis), 1 $ type. 

 Exp. 30 mm. 



Resembles T. albiceps, Wlk., from Borneo. 



[To be continued.] 



LXVII. — Descriptions and Records of Bees. — XXIX. 

 By T. D. A. Cockerell, University of Colorado. 



Lithurgus chrgsurus, Fonsc. 



S.W. Persia (Escalera). British Museum. 

 One female, which has the ventral scopa shining creamy 

 white, reddish in the middle. In all respects this Persian 



