120 Lord Walsingham on 



small, outwardly oblique, spot of fuscous scales ; at the extreme 

 apex is a dark fuscous spot preceded by a few scattered paler 

 fuscous scales, which are also to be found along the base of the 

 cilia ; cilia fawn-colour, inclining to greyish fawn about the anal 

 angle. Hind wings grey, with fawn-grey cilia. Abdomen 

 cinereous. Legs pale fawn, inconspicuously banded with darker 

 fawn. Exp. al. 9 11 mni. 



Hab. Bathurst (Gambia) ; two specimens, one bred 

 from a mine in a species of mallow in November, the 

 other taken on the wing in the same month (Carter). 



Type, $ ? , Mus. Wlsm. 



STATHMOPODA, Sin. 



[PL vi., fig. 59.] 



Stathmopoda maculata, sp. n. 



Antennae, pale fawn. Palpi whitish, apical joint slightly tinged 

 with fawn above. Head pale fawn above ; face whitish. Thorax 

 stout ; cream-white, except on its extreme anterior margin, which 

 is fawn-colour. Fore wings creamy- white, the costal margin 

 narrowly shaded throughout with fawn-brown ; a triangular fawn- 

 brown basal patch, of which the apex reaches the dorsal margin ; 

 a transverse fascia in the middle, wider on the costal than on the 

 dorsal margin, and a transverse shade occupying the whole apical 

 fourth of the wing (except the extreme apex, which is slightly 

 paler), of which the inner edge is outwardly oblique from the costa 

 to the dorsal margin ; all deep fawn-brown, with a very slight 

 purplish hue ; cilia pale brownish ochreous. Hind wings pale 

 fawn-grey, with pale brownish ochreous cilia. Abdomen fawn- 

 brown. Legs pale fawn-colour, with deep fawn-brown tufts and 

 tarsal spots. Exp. al. 18 20 mm. 



Hob. Gambia, two specimens (Druce). 

 Type, <? ? , Mus. Wlsm. 



This species has a very distinct appearance despite 

 the general similarity of colouring in S. crassella. The 

 thorax is also equally stout, but the ground colour of the 

 fore wings is much paler, and so distinctly mapped out 

 into two elongate patches, enclosed on three sides by the 

 dark fawn-brown transverse shades, as to destroy the 

 somewhat suffused effect. It is also larger, and the sub- 

 apical shade does not point inwards, but outwards from 

 the costa. Both crassella and maculata approach Stath- 



