BRYOPHILOPSIS.— OCHROTHRIPA. olen 
@. Fore wing with the curved lunulate mark beyond the 
autemedial line and the patch beyond the postmedial line black-brown 
shading to brown at termen and forming a comet-shaped patch. 
Hab. Gorn Coast, Sekondi (Hamlyn), 1 3 type, Ashanti (Dudgeon), 
19. ep. 22 millim. 
6621. Bryophilopsis melanoleuca, n.sp. (Plate CLXXXIL. fig. 28.) 
Head and thorax creamy white, the tegule suffused with 
blackish towards tips, the metathorax with some blackish scales 
before the erest; palpi and frons at sides black; antenne black 
except basal joint; fore tibie and the tarsi black ringed with white ; 
abdomen brown, tle basal segment and ventral surface white. 
Fore wing creamy white; a black point at base; subbasal line 
indistinct, with black spot on costa, sinuous, ending at submedian 
fold, and with small black spot beyond it in cell; antemedial line 
black, oblique and slightly sinuous to submedian fold, incurved at 
vein 1, a quadrate patch of black suffusion beyond it from costa to 
above median nervure; the inner medial area suffused with black, 
brown and grey, its upper edge curved; reniform with its centre 
defined by black, hoop-shaped, open beiow ; postmedial line black 
defined on outer side by white, bent outwards and almost obsolete 
below costa, then oblique and minutely waved, the area beyond it 
purple-grey except at costa with some red-brown suffusion beyond 
the subterminal line at discal and submedian folds; subterminal 
line white defined on inner side by black except at costa and towards 
inner margin, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, some black 
beyond it at apex and middle; a series of black points defined on 
inner side by white just before termen from apex to vein 2 anda 
black striga above tornus; cilia with some white at middle. Hind 
wing semihyaline white, the veins tinged with brown, the termen 
and cilia except at base tinged with brown to submedian fold; the 
underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 
Hab. Gop Coast, Kumasi (Whiteside), 1 ¢ type; S. Nieerta, 
Olokemeji (Dudyeon), 2 ¢G, Sapele (Sampson), 1 2, Llesha 
(Humphrey), 1 3. Evp, 24 millim. 
Genus OCHROTHRIPA, nov. 
Type, O. leptochroma. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to just 
above vertex of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd very long and somewhat 
dilated at extremity ; frons smooth with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; 
antennes cf female minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with 
scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with depressed crest ; fore 
tibiee broadly fringed with hair on both sides, the mid and hind tibix 
moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. 
Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly 
crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 
10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long narrow areole; 11 from cell. Hind 
wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 fully developed trom above 
angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle, 
