Ml. W. L. Distant on Ilomoptera. 327 



abclomon beneath piceous, with the base stramineous ; teg- 

 niina bhick, chival area more or less ])iccous l)rown, basal 

 haU" of costal margin minutely spotted with whitish, upper 

 half of apical margin whitish, an irregular transverse series 

 of whitish spots crossing tegmcn near middle, one large and 

 rounded a little before and beneath apex, one semilunatenear 

 middle, and a third deeply notched above clavus, before and 

 near these S{)ots a number of smaller and nebulous spots of 

 the same colour ; wings with the basal lialves dull greyish, 

 the apical halves fuscous. Structural characters as in generic 

 diagnosis. 



Long., excl. tegm., 5 mm. ; exp. tegm. 15 mm. 



Ilab. Natal; Durban {B ell- Marie y). 



Genus Epitemna. 

 Epitemna, Melich, Mon. Ricaniid. p. 247 (1898). 

 Type, E, retracta, "Walk. 



Epitemna marginata. 



Flatoides marf/inatus, Walk. List Horn. ii. p. 415 (1851). 

 Pochazia marginata, Melich. (part.), Mon. Ricaniid. p. 217 (1898). 

 Epitemna pilifira, Melich. Mou. liicaniid. p. 250 (1898). 



Walker's type is without a locality, but the British 

 Museum has since acquired an example of the species collected 

 by Sen. Escalera in the Cameroons. The E, pilifera, Melich., 

 of which I possess the type, is an exact synonym of Walker's 

 species, but I am answerable for the erroneous locality 

 " Antillen.'" I forwarded my unworked material to Dr. 

 Melichar when he was preparing his monograph, and amongst 

 them some specimens which I had acquired as from, and 

 labelled, " West Indies." This must have been a wrong 

 locality, and tluy should all have probably been labelled 

 ** West Africa.'' The same remark applies to the following 

 sj)ccies. 



Epitemna retracta. 



Flatoides retractility Walk. Li.st Horn. ii. p. 416, iv. t. iii. fig. 3 



(1851). 

 Epitemna retracta, Melich. Mon. Ricaniid. p. 248 (1898). 

 Epitemna speculifera, Melich. he. cit. p. 250. 



Ilab. W. Africa. 



Genus Ricanoptera. 



Eicanoptera, Melich. Mon. Ricaniid. p. 253 (1898). 



Type, R. inculta, Melich. 



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