III. African Micro- Lepidoptera. By the Eight Honble. 

 Lord WALSINGHAM, M.A., F.K.S., F.L.S., &c. 



[Bead November 5th, 1890.] 

 PLATES III., IV., V., VI. & VII. 



I AM indebted to many kind correspondents for the 

 material dealt with in this paper. Mr. Gilbert T. Carter, 

 C.M.G., formerly Treasurer and now Administrator of 

 the Gambia Settlements, has sent me many things from 

 Accra and Bathurst, some of which have been dealt 

 with in a previous paper (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, 

 219288, PL X. XIII.). Mr. J. M. Hutchinson has 

 collected for me at Kimbolton (Estcourt), Natal. I have 

 also received contributions from Mr. Herbert Druce, 

 Colonel Bowker, Mr. C. G. Barrett, and Mr. F. J. Jack- 

 son; the last collection as coming chiefly from the 

 country between Kilirna Njaro and the coast is especially 

 interesting. The species described in this paper by no 

 means exhaust the material, and I hope at some future 

 time to work out the remainder. In the meanwhile the 

 present considerable addition to the list of African 

 Tineidce and Tortriddce may perhaps be useful to those 

 who study the subject. The majority appear to belong 

 to well-known European genera, several of which are 

 now recorded for the first time as occurring in Africa. 



In my previous paper attention was drawn to certain 

 genera which appear on both sides of the Atlantic ; no 

 less than seven additions are here made to this list : 

 Phacasiophora, Grote, (Eta, Grote, Ide, Chambers, 

 Polyhymno, Chambers, Strobisia, Clemens, Anorthosia, 

 Clemens, and Zarathra, Walker. Some of these have a 

 still wider distribution, and will soon be also recorded 

 as Asiatic. The genus Philobota, Meyrick, hitherto 

 confined to the Australian region, is here recog- 

 nised. It is extremely probable that a more intimate 

 acquaintance than I possess with the numerous new 

 Australian genera characterised by Meyrick would show 



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