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It is not, however, a Catep/iici, aiul it becomes necessary to 

 make a genus for it. 



OSTACRONYCTA, gen. nov. 



Palpi smoothly scaled, npturned, second segment reacliing 

 halfway U[) the frons, third segment long; antenntc in female 

 simple, vertex slightly crested ; metathorax with a central 

 tiilt ; proboscis fully developed. Legs : fore with long 

 fringes of hair; mid femora fringed with long hair, tibiaa 

 scaled with short hairs ; hind femora fringed with long 

 liair, tibiai with a brush-like pencil of hairs from the middle 

 to the tarsal joint. Neuration : primaries with vein 3 from 

 before, 4 from the angle, 5 from well above the angle, 6 from the 

 upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, and 10 stalked, 8 being given off from 

 9 close to the apex, which has a bar from 10 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from the cell ; veins 7 to 11 are closely appressed 

 together under the costa. Secondaries with cell quite short, 

 with 3 and 4 from the angle, 2 and 5 from close to the angle, 

 6 and 7 from the angle, 8 bent down to the cell and auaslo- 

 uiosing very shortly. 



Ty{)e, Ostacroni/cta glaucopasta^ B-B. 



Ostacronycta glaucopasta, sp. n. 



$ . Palpi with the base of the second and third segments 

 black, tips white; frons white; vertex pale greenish ; collar 

 glaucous ; thorax pale greenish, with a few brown scales. 

 Primaries grey, with pale green patches and black lines, 

 giving a pleasing glaucous appearance, the grey scales being 

 superimposed over the green ; base pale greenish, with 

 blackish dots; antemedian area dark grey, edged externally 

 by a blackish line twice angled sharply ; median area 

 greenish, postmedian area grey, in the middle of which is the 

 fine, very irregular, acutely angled, and serrate black post- 

 median line ; a pale green costal patch extends through this ; 

 terminal area greenish, with termen finely black, very deeply 

 and definitely crenulate ; a longish black dash just above the 

 tornus from the termen to the postmedian line. Secondaries 

 pure white, with the termen narrowly grey, which colour 

 extends finely along the veins for a short distance. 



Expanse 42 mm. 



Hab. Nairobi (Jackson). 



Type in my collection. 



Acantholipes tandoana, sp. n. 

 <$ . Head and thorax dove-grey, abdomen paler. Both 



