African Micro- Lepidoptcra. 125 



BATRACHEDRIN.E. 



ZAEATHEA, Wkr. 



[PL vi., fig. 65.] 

 Zarathra muricicoma, sp. n. 



Antennce considerably longer than the fore wings; steel-grey; 

 basal joint slightly enlarged, orange ochreous. Labial palpi long, 

 slender, divergent, recurved ; apical joint longer than second, both 

 smooth ; shining ochreous. Maxillary palpi short, distinct, white. 

 Haustellum rather long. [Walker writes of Zarathra " proboscis 

 nulla," but his specimens of Zarathra pterodactyla have long 

 tongues.] Head posteriorly shining metallic steel-white, above 

 and in front brilliant purple. Thorax brownish purple. Fore 

 wings very narrow, elongate, brownish purple; with a slender 

 shining steel- white streak along the costal margin before the costal 

 cilia ; another almost parallel below it ; a conspicuous white spot 

 near the base of the dorsal margin, above which the costal portion 

 of the wing is bright purple ; another conspicuous semicircular 

 white spot on the middle of the dorsal margin, above which is a 

 nearly obsolete small whitish costal spot ; dorsal cilia with a 

 greenish iridescent hue. Hind wings elongate, very narrow, 

 sharply pointed, purplish grey ; cilia very long, purplish brown, in 

 some lights with a greenish hue. Abdomen shining, iridescent, 

 purplish grey above, with white patches at the sides and beneath, 

 anal segment white. Legs [missing.] Exp. al. 11 mm. 



Hal. Bathurst (Gambia), two specimens (Carter). 

 Type, $ , Mus. Wlsm. 



GEACILAEIAN^. 



GRACILAEIA, Hie. 



[PL vi., fig. 66.] 



Gracilaria punctulata, sp. n. 



Antennce white beneath, distinctly spotted with brown above. 

 Palpi whitish at the base and apex, shaded with umber-brown at 

 the sides and around the middle. Head white, with a shining 

 umber-brown bar across the front. Thorax whitish. Fore wings 

 bone-white, delicately shaded with pale reddish brown along the 

 middle, on and above the fold, this colour becoming more intense 

 about the apex of the wing ; on the extreme costa near the base 

 are three or four minute brownish dots ; a dark brown spot on the 

 disc, about the middle of the wing, is followed by another nearer 

 to the costal cilia ; there is an indication of a third similar spot in 



