42 Lord Walsingham on Western 



as the second. Maxillary palpi short, stout, dependent. Ifaust- 

 ellani present. Head slightly rough above, face smooth. Thorax 

 smooth. Forewings of approximately even width throughout, apex 

 depressed, somewhat acute, termen slightly concave, oblique, 

 tornus rounded. Neuration, 11 veins (vein 11 absent) ; 2 and ?> 

 from a short stalk (not recurved), 4, 5, and 6 straight; 7 and 8 

 from a long stalk enclosing the apex, 12 running to the commence- 

 ment of the costal cilia. Hind-wings as broad as the forewings, 

 slightly lanceolate at the apex, termen not indented. Neuration, 

 8 veins ; 3 and 4 from a point, 5 bent over to near their 

 base; the outer end of the cell forming a deep angle between 

 5 and 6 ; G and 7 widely separate, almost parallel, 7 nearly 

 coalescing with 8 beyond the upper angle of cell. Abdomen not 

 flattened. Legs, hind tibife clothed with projecting scales above ; 

 spurs stout, tarsal joints somewhat coarsely clothed. 



Orygocera carnicolor, sp. n. (PI. IL, fig. 5.) 



Antennas yellowish grey. Palpi white, sprinkled with greyish 

 scales on the second joint. Head white. Thorax yellowish grey 

 spotted with flesh-red. Forewings sericeous, yellowish grey, dappled 

 with flesh-red, with a small triangular mouse-grey spot a little 

 before the middle, of which the apex is slightly turned outwards, 

 the whole bordered with flesh-red ; a suffusion of scattered flesh- 

 red scales extends over the greater portion of the wing-surface, 

 especially along the fold and in a line beneath it; there is a red 

 spot on the middle of the disc, and a second a little beyond it below 

 the costa; a series of three similar spots running obliquely, parallel 

 with the termen, the first immediately below the costa, the second 

 at the upper angle of the cell, and the third, somewhat lunate, at 

 the lower angle of the cell ; another smaller one lies near the 

 tornus, and the termen is mottled throughout with flesh-red ; the 

 extreme base of the costa is shaded with fuscous ; cilia yellowish 

 grey. Exp. a/., 19 mm. II ind wings greyish, somewhat trans- 

 parent, with a bluish iridescence between the veins, especially 

 near the abdominal margin ; cilia yellowish grey. Abdomen 

 greyish. Ilindlegs whitish cinereous. 



Type. $. 



Hab. French Congo Kan g we, Ogowe River (Rev. 

 A. C. Good) ; unique. 



