58 Lord Walsingham on Western 



LASPEYKESIA, Hb. 



Laspeyresia hemispJiserana, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 23.) 

 Antennas black. Palpi scarcely roughened beneath, apical joint 

 short, porrect ; snow-white, second joint blackened above towards 

 the base. Head black, white above posteriorly. Thorax greyish, 

 with a conspicuous white band across in front. Forewing slaty- 

 grey, shaded with fuscous along the outer half of the costa ; with a 

 large semicircular brownish patch on the middle of the dorsum, 

 narrowly outlined with white ; several narrow very oblique whitish 

 costal streaks and two very conspicuous clear white ones before 

 the apex, the first very oblique, the second straight and parallel 

 with the termen ; a few whitish scales along the extreme base of 

 the costa ; cilia whitish, a dark fuscous parting line along their 

 base. Exp. al., 14 mm. Hindwings brownish fuscous ; cilia pale 

 whitish grey, a darker parting line along their base. Abdomen 

 brownish fuscous. Legs greyish fuscous. 



Type. $. 



Hah. Sierra Leone 21, IV. (Dr. Clements) ; French 

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

 specimens. 



CYDIA, Hb. 



(= CARPOCAPSA, Tr.) 



Cydia ? praetextana, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 24.) 

 Antennas, ochreous. \_Palpi missing.] Head and thorax canary- 

 yellow, the latter white with a greyish tinge beneath. Forewing s 

 canary-yellow blending to rich orange along the costa, and reddish 

 ferruginous along the termen, with some reddish ferruginous 

 blotches in a wide fasciated band across the middle and along the 

 dorsum ; a series of about nine small black dots along the extreme 

 costa, and numerous raised spots of bright steel-grey scales scattered 

 about the darkened portions of the wing; a series of these starting 

 at one-fourth from the base continues nearly parallel with the 

 costa, these are chiefly circular or oblong, those nearest to the costa 

 being smaller than those below them ; at one- fifth from the apex 

 is a longer steel-grey spot placed obliquely and pointing to a similar 

 elongate spot within the lower half of the termen ; a long narrow 

 spot of the same colour lies parallel with the termen below the 

 apex and a shorter one immediately within the tornus ; from the 

 last spot tending towards the base is a series of three large similar 

 metallic circular spots, and another lies upon the fasciated band 



