110 Lord Walsingham on 



ANORTHOSIA, Clem. 

 Anorthosia straminis, Wlsm. 



Ypsolophus straminis, Wlsm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1881, 266. 



Grahamstown (Cape Colony), one specimen (Druce) ; 

 Delagoa Bay (East Africa), one specimen (Druce). 



This species only differs from Anorthosia punctifereUa, 

 Clem., the type of the genus, by having 11 veins in the 

 fore wings (7 and 8 being coincident) instead of 12 veins, 

 7 and 8 from a common stem. 



In my former paper I had placed it in the genus 

 Ysolophus, which has the same neuration as Anortkosia, 

 but the form of the palpi agrees far more closely with 

 the latter genus. The neural characters of Anorthosia, 

 as figured in Stainton's edition of Clemens' papers 

 (Tin. N. Am., p. Ill), is not precisely correct; veins 3 

 and 4 of the hind wings should be separated at the base, 

 and the discal cell of both wings is closed, as in other 

 allied genera. 



[PL v., fig. 45 ; PL vii., fig. 84.] 

 Anorthosia fractico stella, sp. n. 



Antenna dirty whitish, annulated with brown. Palpi : second 

 joint thickly clothed with projecting scales taking a triangular 

 form ; externally brown, fringed with whitish at its anterior edge, 

 internally whitish throughout ; apical joint very long, slender, 

 erect, slightly recurved, whitish, springing from the apex of the 

 triangular tuft of scales, not, as is usual in Ypsolophus, from the 

 base ; in this respect it agrees approximately with Anorthosia, 

 Clem., rather than with Ypsolophus, in which I was at first 

 inclined to place it, although differing somewhat from both in the 

 form of the apical joint. Head and Thorax pale olive-green. Fore 

 wings with the costa slightly convex near the base, depressed 

 beyond the middle, with a projection before the oblique depressed 

 apex, which is rather obtusely pointed, the apical margin oblique 

 and concave, anal angle obtuse, dorsal margin straight ; pale olive- 

 green ; a small brown streak along the extreme base of the costal 

 margin, followed by a few brown scales on the convex part of the 

 margin near the basal third of the wing-length ; a distinct dark 

 brown narrow line-like spot along the extreme costal margin, 

 scarcely beyond the middle, and a few brown scales in the cilia of 

 the preapical costal projection ; just before the middle of the wing 



