Equatorial African Micro-lepidoptera. oO 



throughout) ; 2 and 3 from a recurved common stem, others 

 separate. Ilhulirinys slightly broader than the f orewings, trape- 

 zoidal, costal third of the wing thickly scaled throughout beneath. 

 Neural ion, 8 veins ; 3 and 4 from a point, 6 and 7 closely approxi- 

 mated at base. Legs, hind tibia? thickly clothed, spurs very long. 



Allied to Notliris and Ypsolophus, but differing in the 

 coincidence of veins 7 and 8 of the forewings. 



Epicliarma nothriforme, sp. n. (PI. II., fig. 3.) 



Antennce stone ochreous, faintly annulate. Paljii, rich brown 

 externally on the second joint ; apical joint and a narrow fringe at 

 the end of the second joint stone-ochreous. Head and thorax 

 stone-ochreous. Forewings pale stone-ochreous with three black 

 spots, one on the middle of the fold, one on the middle of the disc 

 above and beyond it, the ihird at the end of the cell slightly below 

 the line of the previous one ; a very faint shade of greyish brown 

 on the apical portion of the wiug is interrupted by a pale waved 

 fasciaform mark which extends from the commencement of the 

 costal cilia, bulging outwards and reverting to the dorsum before 

 the tornus ; a few ill-defined greyish brown spots around the apex 

 and termen ; cilia pale stone-ochreous. E.rp. /., 23 mm. Himl- 

 n-inys grey : cilia stone-ochreous with a greyish shade near their 

 base. Abdomen greyish. Legs stone-ochreous. 



Type. ?. 



Hob. French Congo Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev. 

 A. C. Good) ; unique. 



This species has much the appearance of Notliris 

 verbascella, Hb., but the neuration is different. 



PAPPOPHORUP, gen. n. 

 = thistle down, Qfpeiv = to bear.) 

 TYPE. Pappophorus eurynotus, Wlsm. 



Antenna (f), unident.ate, basal joint without pecten. Labial 

 palpi, second joint porrect, clothed at the end and above and 

 beneath so as to make the joint appear triangular ; apical joint 

 slender, recurved, twice the length of the second joint. Maxillary 

 palpi short, distinct. Haustelhan well-developed. Head and thorax 

 smooth. Forewings with the costa conspicuously bulged before 



