172 Mr. W. Warren on new 



XXIX. — Descriptions of neio Genera and Species of VyxdWi^dd 

 contained in the British-Museum Collection. By W. 

 Warren, M.A., F.E.S. 



[Continued from vol. viii. p. 70.] 



Subfamily Csr tsa vginm. 

 Semniomtma, gen. nov. 



Fore wings with costa very straight, curved only before 

 apex and simple in male; a])ex blunt; hind margin hardly 

 oblique and faintly bowed. Plind wings triangular, with liind 

 margin only slightly curved. Labial palpi short, straightly 

 porrect, shaggy beneath, the third joint indistinct; maxillary 

 short, hairy ; tongue large, scaly ; ocelli minute ; forehead 

 smooth, flat ; antenna in male simple, with very short pubes- 

 cence ; neuration as in Clirysophila, Hiib., and Semnia, Tliib. 



Type S.flavicejjs, Burm. [Ilypocrita). 



In general appearance, colour, and markings, resembling 

 Hiibner's genus Chrysophila, but distinguished at once by the 

 simple costa and antenua3 of the male. 



Subfamily Ptsalibinm. 



PiNDICITORA, Wlk. 

 Type P. zeuxoalis, Wlk. xxvii. p. 135. 



Pindicitora Jlavifrons, sp. n. 



Fore wings shining violet-black, with a slight pale tinge 

 at the base of the inner margin ; a distinct white, bluntly 

 zigzag, transverse line at one third, not quite reaching the 

 costa ; a very faint, irregularly sinuous, and somewhat dilated 

 line at four fifths. Hind wings violet-grey, paler towards 

 the base, gradually darkening outwards, with a faintly paler 

 submargiiial line, more distinct towards the anal angle. 

 Thorax, antcnnai, abdomen, and fringes concolorous with 

 fore wings ; collar, base of antenna?, face, palpi, and anal seg- 

 ment of abdomen yellow. Underside shining fuscous, with 

 a violet gloss ; legs pale ochreous. 



Expanse of wings 10 millim. 



One male from Accra. 



