44 Lord Walsingham on Western 



Type. $ . (Paratype. Mus. Br.) 



Hob. French Congo Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev. 

 A. C. Good), one specimen; Calabar Old Calabar, one 

 specimen (British Museum). 



Theatrocopia elegans, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 14.) 

 Antenna pale reddish grey. Palpi slender, recurved, second 

 joint very long, apical joint somewhat shorter than the second ; 

 pale reddish grey. Head and thorax pale reddish grey. Forewings 

 grass-green, with a dorsal patch before the middle connected with 

 an oblique fascia beyond the middle, which is again connected 

 along the costa and around the tornus, with a patch covering the 

 apical portion these markings are all reddish grey, with a distinct 

 lilac tinge, and are delicately margined with darker scales ; the 

 connexion of the dorsal patch with the central fascia leaves a 

 semicircular patch of the green ground-colour on the middle of the 

 dorsum; cilia reddish grey. Exp. al., 16 mm. Hindwings and cilia 

 brownish grey. Abdomen brownish grey. Legs slightly paler than 

 the abdomen. 



Type. $. 



Hab. French Congo Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev. 

 A. C. Good) ; unique. 



PSEUDOPKOTASIS, gen. n. 



(Protasis, nom. gen.) 

 TYPE. Pseudoprotasis canariella, Wlsm. 



Antenncs, < biserrate, slender. Labial palpi (as in Protasis, H.-S.), 

 very long, projecting more than three times the length of the head 

 beyond it, clothed with appressed scales throughout ; apical joint 

 very short, scarcely visible ; second joint straight and laterally 

 compressed. Maxillary palpi short. Haustellum present. Head 

 and thorax smooth. Forewingx somewhat narrowed at the base, 

 whence the costa is slightly arched, of approximately even width 

 beyond the bend, apex depressed, rounded, termen slightly convex, 

 oblique. Neuration, 11 veins (10 missing) ; 2 and 3 stalked; 7 and 

 8 stalked, 7 to apex. Hindwings as broad as the forewings, apex 

 obtuse, termen evenly rounded. Neuration, 8 veins; 3 and 4 

 stalked, 5 bent over towards their origin ; 6 and 7 separate and 

 parallel. Abdomen rather slender. Ilindlegs slender, scarcely 

 clothed. 



