76 Lord Walsingham on 



COPTOLOMA, Ld. 



[PL iii., fig. 14.] 



Coptoloma dimidiata, sp. n. 



Antennce pale ochreous. Palpi orange ochreous. Head ochreous. 

 Thorax shining orange ochreous. Fore wings shining orange 

 ochreous to one-half their length, sparsely irrorated with purplish 

 fuscous scales ; beyond the middle bright orange ochreous, irregu- 

 larly suffused with purplish fuscous streaks and patches, with three 

 or four very oblique metallic steel-blue costal streaklets ; cilia 

 orange ochreous, with a silvery metallic lustre, especially on the 

 lower half of the apical margin, within which three or four small 

 black dots indicate an ocelloid patch ; the purplish patches are pro- 

 longed further towards the base on the dorsal than on the costal 

 margin. Under side pale greyish fuscous. Hind wings fuscous, 

 with paler cilia. Under side pale greyish fuscous. Abdomen 

 greyish fuscous. Legs whitish ochreous, spotted above on the 

 ultimate tarsal joints. Exp. al. 8 mm. 



Hob. Bathurst (Gambia), " taken at light early in 

 December," two specimens (Carter). 



Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm. 



This species differs from its Asiatic ally, known as 

 Hemerosia aurantiana, Pryer (Cist. Ent. II., 235, PL IV., 

 12. (1877)), in the more equal division of the pale and 

 dark portions of the fore wing ; in aurantiana the former 

 predominates. 



DlCHRORAMPHA, Gn. 



[PL iii., fig. 15.] 

 Dichrorampha excisa, sp. n. 



Antennce pale brownish fuscous. Palpi whitish cinereous. Head 

 brownish fuscous ; face whitish cinereous. Thorax pale brownish 

 fuscous. Fore wings somewhat excised below the apex, and bulged 

 above the apical margin : pale brownish fuscous to a little beyond 

 the middle ; the remainder of the wing suffused with a delicate 

 mauve or pale lilac tint, obscurely striated with darker shades ; the 

 inner edge of this suffused portion of the wing is clearly denned, 

 slightly convex towards the base on the lower two-thirds of the 

 wing-width, and abruptly biangulated beneath the costa; on the 

 costal margin are three or four pairs of pale oblique streaklets, 

 those nearest to the apex being shining silvery ; two black dots, 

 one opposite the middle, the other below the middle, of the apical 

 margin, the upper one followed by a silvery spot at the bulge, are 



