IS Mr. W. J. Holland on a neio 



the head less shiny, the clypens narrower and more parallel- 

 sided and more closely and shaliowly punctured ; tlie tiiorax 

 silky and subopaque and more sparsely punctured, the 

 basal lobe narrower and more deeply emarginate ; the 

 scutellum distinctly narrower and more acutely produced at 

 its apex ; the hairs in the sulci and at the margins of the 

 elytra longer and of a yellow colour ; the pygidium only 

 sparsely pilose at the base and apex; the underside is also 

 more sparsely pubescent, and the centre of the abdomen is 

 impunctate and entirely without hairs. 



This genus has hitherto been known only from Australia, 

 and it is interesting to find a species so closely allied from 

 ' the mountains of New Guinea. 



III. — A new ]S ochiid from Sierra Leone. 

 By W. J. Holland. 



Through the kindness of Mr. William Schaus, the Carnegie 

 Museum in Pittsburgh has received a number of interesting 

 African moths. One of these, representing a new genus and 

 species, has been singled out because of its apparent rarity 

 and rare beauty to bear as its specific designation the name of 

 the donor of the collection. 



I must thank Sir George F. Hampson for saving me the 

 labour of preparing the following diagnoses of the genus and 

 species. With that courtesy wliich marks all his intercourse 

 with scientific men visiting the British Museum, he, knowing 

 that my time was taken up with affairs of greater magnitude, 

 such as the Diplodocus, kindly wrote the description both 

 of the genus and the species and handed them to me to be 

 employed in this paper. 



N c T u E s. 



QuABRIFINM. 



AuCHENiSA, gen. nov. 



The genus is apparently near Trisula, and is characterized 

 as follows : — 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, 

 rather short, thickly clotiied with hair ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 smooth ; antennaj of the female bipectinate, with rather long 



