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Hab. French Congo Kangwe, Ogowu River (Rev. 

 A. C. Good); two specimens. 



In comparing this species with the better-known 

 Eccopsis tvahlbergiana, Z., it may be distinguished by the 

 somewhat longer palpi, by the stronger costal marks on 

 the basal half of the forewings, by the less conspicuous 

 dorsal shading and by the hindwings being of a much 

 lighter and more cupreous colour, as well as by its some- 

 what larger size. 



ANCYLIS, Hb. 

 (= PHOXOPTERIS, Tr.) 

 - Ancylis argent iciliana, sp. n. (PI. III., fig. 22.) 



Antennas (<) rather stout, simple; stone-grey. Palpi very 

 closely appressed to the face, the short apical joint scarcely pro- 

 jecting beyond it ; stone-grey. Head stone-grey. Thorax pale 

 olive-grey. Forewings, costa evenly arched, apical margin strongly 

 indented on vein G ; pale olive-grey, with a few inconspicuous darker 

 mottlings indicating a pale basal patch at one-third, its irregular 

 outer edge slightly oblique, nearer to the base on the costa than on 

 the dorsum ; from the middle of the costa a slender umber-brown 

 line (slightly convex outwardly below the middle of the wing) 

 extends obliquely to the dorsum within the tornus ; this is followed 

 by a paler space extending to the termen, showing a silvery sheen 

 with a few slender lines of black scales following the nervules across 

 it in the direction of the apex, this space is narrowed towards its 

 costal extremity by an oblique brown line extending from the 

 indentation on the termen inwards and upwards to the costa and 

 along the base of the cilia both upwards and downwards ; above it 

 the costa before the apex is chestnut-brown, with three or four 

 slender oblique silvery- white streaks, a faint indication of smaller 

 streaks can be traced along the whole of the outer two-thirds of the 

 costa ; cilia pure silvery-white, tending to greyish about the tornus, 

 and tipped along their upper half with chestuut-brown. Exp.aL, 

 17 mm. Hindwings stone-greyish, with scarcely paler cilia, a very 

 faint line along their base. Abdomen stone-greyish. Legs pale 

 stone-grey, inclining to ochreous. 



Type. $ . 



Hab. French Congo Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev. 

 A. C. Good) ; unique. 



