36 Lord Walsinghatn on Western 



Hindwings bright shining ferruginous at the base, ' shading 

 outwardly to cupreous ; cilia purplish fuscous at the apex, shading 

 to tawny grey and pale ferruginous towards the base ; hind lobe 

 very slender, with a cupreous black spatule at its apex. Abdomen 

 dark ferruginous, shading to tawny fuscous at the sides. Legs, the 

 anterior and middle pairs pale ferruginous with a rich ferruginous 

 fan-shaped tuft towards the end of the tibiae ; posterior pair thickly 

 clothed to the tarsal joints with dark ferruginous scales, the tibial 

 tufts banded at their base with reddish ferruginous, on their outer 

 half bright ochreous. 



Type. $ . Mus. Wlsm. 



Hob. Yoruba Idanre (Sir G. Carter, 1894) ; French 

 Congo Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev. A. C. Good). 



ALUCITA, L. 

 TYPE. Phalsena (Alucita} pentadadyla, L. (Poda, 1761), 



ALUCITA, L. (nee Meyr.) = ACIPTILIA, Hb. = ACIPTILUS,, 

 Z. = *PTEROPHORUS (Geoffr.) Meyr. 



- ' Alucita similalis, Wkr. 

 n. syn. = malacensis, Z. 



Aciptilus similalis, Wkr., Cat. Lep. Ins. B.M., XXX.,. 



949 (1864) l ; Aciptilia malacensis, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent. 

 Ross., XIII., 485-6 (1877)'. 



Sab. AFRICA Sierra Leone, 10, I. (Dr. Clements) ;. 

 French Congo Kangwe, Ogowc River (Rev. A. C. 

 Good) ; ASIA Malacca 2 ; Borneo Sarawak 1 ; Celebes 

 Macassar, 500 ft. (W. M. Doherty). 



This species has not hitherto been recorded from 

 Africa. 



- Alucita candidalis, Wkr. 



Aciptilus candidalis, Wkr., Cat. Lep. Ins. B.M., XXX., 

 948 (1864) 1 ; Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, 282 2 . 



Hab. Sierra Leone 1 ' 2 ; French Congo Kangwe, 

 Ogowe River (Rev. A. C. Good); Natal Spring- 

 Yale, 111. 2 



