Equatorial African Micro-lepidoplera. 41 



pencil between veins \b and Ic. Abdomen shining, cinereous, anal 

 tuft slightly paler. Leys brown, tarsi annulated with pale fawn. 



Type. $ . Mus. Wlsra. 



Hab. Sierra Leone, 25, IV. (Dr. Clements); French 

 Congo Kangwe, Ogowe Kiver (Rev. A. C. Good) ; two 

 specimens. 



YPSOLOPHUS, F. 

 YpsolopJtus basistriatus, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 13.) 



Antennas pale cinereous, annulated with fawn grey. Palpi, 

 second joint with a conspicuously projecting triangular tuft 

 below, apical joint very long, slender; second joint with a tri- 

 angular chocolate-brown shade externally, apical joint sprinkled 

 with chocolate-brown scales on the under side. Head and thorax 

 fawn-gre}', face slightly paler. Forewings with veins 2 and 3 

 closely approximate throughout, but especially at their base ; pale 

 cinereous sprinkled with fawn-grey throughout, a series of small 

 blackish spots around the apex and termeu at the base of the cilia, 

 and a conspicuous outwardly-oblique black half-fascia arising from 

 the dorsum near the base, crossing the fold nnd terminating at the 

 upper end of the cell at about two-thirds the width of the wing ; 

 cilia pale cinereous. Exp. al. t 16 mm. Hindwings greyish ; cilia 

 scarcely paler, with a faint subochreous parting line along their 

 base. Abdomen grayish. Leg*, anterior and middle pairs black, 

 tarsi annulated with white, posterior pair pale cinereous. 



Type. $. 



Hab. French Congo Kangwe, Ogowe Eiver (Rev. 

 A. C. Good); three specimens. 



This species differs from the typical forms of Ypso- 

 loplmf, in the approximation of veins 2 and 3 of the 

 forewings. 



CECOPHORID^E. 

 ORYGOCERA, gen. n. 

 (opv = an antelope, tcepas = a horn.) 

 TYPE. $ . Orygocera carnicolor, Wlsm. 



Antenna, simple. Labial palpi very long, evenly recurved, 

 tapering to an acute point, overarching the thorax, apical joint as long 



