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the length of the head beyond it, second joint triangular with a 

 brush of scales above tapering to its apex, apical joint short por- 

 rect. Maxillary palpi absent. Haustellum present. Head and 

 thorax smooth. Forewings narrow, elongate, costa evenly but 

 moderately arched throughout, apex depressed, slightly produced r 

 termen oblique, scarcely sinuate, with slight tufts of raised scales. 

 Neuration, 12 veins ; 8 and 9 from a common stem, 7 to slightly 

 below apex, 2 from very near angle of cell, 3 and 4 from a very 

 short common stem, 5 from near origin of 3 -j~ 4, 11 bent over 

 at base to very near origin of 10, an internal vein running towards 

 the base from between 5 and 6 ; vein 1 furcate at base. Hindwings 

 broader than the forewings, apex slightly produced, obtuse, termen 

 evenly rounded, median vein pectinated at base. Neuration, 7 

 veins (6 and 7 coincident) ; 3 and 4 from a short stalk, 5 straight, 

 not bent over, and continued through the cell as an internal vein. 

 Abdomen smooth. Legs, hind tibiae slightly hairy above, spurs 

 rather long and slender. 



Autogriphus luteus, sp. n. (PI. II., fig. 10.) 



Antennce greyish. Palpi pale cinereous, shaded with fuscous 

 beneath. Head and thorax pale cinereous, the latter mottled with 

 brown and brownish fuscous. Forewings pale cinereous, much 

 suffused and mottled with brown ; with six elongate fuscous spots 

 along the outer two-thirds of the costa, a conspicuous dark fuscous 

 spot of slightly raised scales at the end of the discal cell between 

 veins 5 and 6, and a smaller one, also raised, about the lower angle 

 of the cell before and beneath it ; a few raised greyish scales a 

 little beyond the middle of the fold on its upper edge, and some 

 also beneath the fold nearer to the base ; along the termen is a 

 slight shade or suffusion of brownish fuscous scales, its inner 

 margin sinuate, angulated inwards at its middle, and recurved at 

 both extremities, the upper extremity not reaching to the costa, the 

 lower terminating about the tornus ; cilia greyish, a slightly paler 

 line along their base. Exp. al., 21 mm. Uindwings grey, the 

 spaces between the veins, especially about the abdominal margin, 

 semitranspareut with a bluish iridescence ; cilia pale grey. Abdo- 

 men [greasy]. Legs pale greyish, hind tarsal joints faintly annulate. 



Type. ? . 



Hob. French. Congo Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev. 

 A. C. Good) ; unique. 



