0)1 new (j'enera and Species 0/ Drepanula;. 103 



X VIT. — Descriptions of nem Genera and Species of Drepniiidfe 

 and Tlivrididic. By Sir George F. IIampsox, Bart,, 

 F.Z.S., &c. 



Tui: imnil)crs attached to tlic species of TnYRiDin.i=; refer 

 to their position in my classification of the Family, P. Z.S. 

 1807, 1)1). ()0;j-G;53. 



Family Drepanidae. 

 Oreta yonioptera, sp. n. 



Antennae of female with uniseriate branches ; hind tibise 

 with one pair of spurs, the tarsi fringed with hair above ; 

 fore wing with apex produced and falcate, the termen 

 strongly angled at vein 3 and excised above and below that 

 point. 



? . Head scarlet, the vertex and antennae brown ; thorax 

 silvery grey-brown ; abdomen with the basal half dark 

 brown, the terminal half red-brown ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen scarlet, the hind tibiae with black 

 streaks. Fore wing silvery grey tinged with brown and 

 striated with dark brown ; an oblique dark medial shade 

 with a grey discoidal point on its outer edge ; a dark sub- 

 terminal line excurved below costa and at middle, with a 

 pale rufous band on its outer side defined by a waved whitish 

 line; cilia black-brown. Hind wing red-brown suffused 

 with silvery grey, the terminal half and inner area irrorated 

 with black points. Underside of fore wing grey mixed with 

 red and irrorated and striated with black ; hind wing yel- 

 lowish suffused with red and strongly irrorated with black. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, llesha {Humfrey), 1 ? type. Exp. 

 40 mm. 



Oreta sulphur ea, sp. n. 



Antennaj of male bipectinatc with long branches; hind 

 tibise with one pair of spurs. 



^ . Head yellow with a brown bar above frons ; thorax 

 and abdomen pale yellow, the legs fringed with reddish 

 hair. Fore wing pale yellow striated with red-brown ; an 

 oblique red-brown line from apex to middle of inner 

 margin with an elliptical black spot beyond it just before 

 termen below apex ; the costal edge towards apex and cilia 

 on apical half rufous. Hind wing pale yellow sparsely 

 striated with dark brown except on basal and costal areas ; 

 a double brown antemcdial line on inner area. 



Hab. Gold Coast {Dudgeon), 1 <^ type. Exp. 28 mm. 



