African Micro-Lepidoptera. 119 



[PL vi., fig. 57.] 

 Stagmatophora distincta, sp. n. 



Antenna with the elongate basal joint white, a distinct brown 

 spot above beyond its middle, thence entirely white beneath, /, 

 above alternately spotted and banded to the middle, and banded t 

 beyond the middle with brown, the apical joints brown. Palpi 

 very slender, recurved, divergent ; white touched with brown, 

 especially at the ends of the second and apical joints. Head white. 

 Thorax stout, brown, fringed with whitish hairs posteriorly. Fore 

 wings brown, with a broad, slightly oblique, shining white fascia 

 near the base ; two shining white lunate spots beyond the middle, 

 one costal, the other dorsal and slightly further removed from the 

 base ; a third larger lunate costo- apical spot reaching to the apical 

 cilia ; cilia greyish brown. Hind wings shining grey at the base, 

 merging into brown beyond it ; cilia brownish grey. Abdomen 

 white, with two brown spots at the base ; the first large, the other 

 small ; a row of three large brown spots along each side, and two 

 brown bands across the two penultimate segments ; anal tuft 

 whitish. Legs white, banded with brown. Exp. al. 11 mm. 



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



Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm. 



The only respect in which this species differs from the 

 typical forms of this genus is in its somewhat wider 

 wings (both fore and hind wings), of which, however, the 

 general pattern of neuration appears to be the same. 



PYRODERCES, Z. 



[PL vi., fig. 58.] 

 Pyroderces simplex, sp. n. 



Antennas whitish fawn-colour, spotted with brownish fuscous 

 above. Palpi divergent, recurved, slender ; pale fawn-colour, 

 apical joint slightly longer than the second, touched with fuscous 

 above the middle and before its apex. Haustellum long, clothed 

 with shining white scales throughout. Head fawn-colour ; face 

 slightly paler. Thorax fawn-colour, paler posteriorly ; with a 

 shining metallic iridescence on the under side. Fore wings fawn- 

 colour, with a slender outwardly curved transverse whitish streak 

 at one-fourth from the base, preceded by some fuscous scales, which 

 tend to form a basal patch ; some shining whitish scales with a 

 lilac iridescence are continued from its lower end, along the dorsal 

 margin to the base, and extend also outwardly along the dorsal 

 margin ; on the dorsal margin at about half the wing-length is a 



