74 Lord Walsingham on 



PI. II., 4 6 (1873)), also occurs on the African con- 

 tinent. 



[PL iii., fig. 11.] 

 Phcecasiophora basicornis, sp. n. 



Antennae greyish cinereous, faintly annulated ; the basal joint 

 distinctly white above. Palpi greyish fuscous ; the second joint 

 stout and thickly clothed. Head and face dark brownish fuscous, 

 a few dirty whitish scales on the crest. Thorax mottled cinereous 

 and fuscous, its anterior edge darker ; posterior edge and tegulae 

 with some brownish scales. Fore wings sprinkled and mottled 

 with cinereous, reddish brown, and fuscous, the base reddish brown 

 on the costal half, streaked with very dark fuscous along the costal 

 margin ; the reddish brown scaling is continued towards the dorsal 

 margin in scattered patches, forming a sort of ill-defined basal- 

 patch ; beyond this is a pale cinereous ill-defined transverse fascia, 

 rather bowed outwards, and much sprinkled with dusky scaling, a 

 patch of grey occupying its central part above the fold ; beyond 

 this fascia is a broad transverse shade of chocolate-brown, tinged 

 with grey on its lower half, narrow at the costal, wide at the dorsal 

 margin, slightly oblique and angulated at the middle of its outer 

 edge ; beyond the upper half of this chocolate-brown shade is a 

 conspicuous whitish grey subcostal patch, into which a series of 

 four geminated whitish grey streaks run from the costal margin ; 

 a chocolate-brown patch encroaches upon the lower edge of the 

 pale subcostal patch, which runs to a subfalcate attenuated point 

 below the apex, where a slender whitish line interrupts the cilia on 

 the apical margin; the chocolate-brown is modified with grey 

 above the anal angle ; cilia brown on the upper half, greyish at the 

 lower half of the apical margin. Hind wings brownish fuscous, 

 with a dark line throughout the greyish cilia. Abdomen brownish 

 fuscous. Legs greyish fuscous, the tufts of the posterior tibiae 

 distinctly whitish at the ends and on their inner sides. Exp. al. 

 23 mm. 



Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), one specimen (Carter). 



Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm. 



I have but one^ specimen ; the species is probably 

 variable, but I think it is quite distinct from the one 

 previously described. 



PHOXOPTEEIS, Tr. 

 " Phoxopteris natalana, Wlsm. 

 Estcourt (Natal), one specimen (Hutchinson). 



