Equatorial African Micro-lepiJoptera. 01 



TINEID^E. 

 TINEINJE. 



ECCOHPSOCTENA, gen. n. 

 (Compsoctena, nom. gen.) 

 TYPE. Eccompsoctena secundella, Wlsm. 



Antennas, <$ strongly bipectinate (3^), the pectinations biciliate. 

 Labial palpi short, slender, but roughly clothed, scarcely projecting 

 beyond the rough scales of the face. Maxillary palpi and liaust- 

 fllum rudimentary. Head and face rough. Tho rax rather roughly 

 clothed. Forewings scarcely narrower towards the base than 

 beyond it, costa slightly convex, apex rounded, termen oblique, 

 slightly convex. Newation, 1 2 veins ; 7 and 8 from a long com- 

 mon stem, 7 to apex, 8 to above apex from a small supplementary 

 cell, from which 9 and 10 also arise, these latter meeting at their 

 extremity on the costal margin. Hindwtngs as broad as the fore- 

 wings. Neuration, 8 veins, all separate ; 6 and 7 separate and 

 parallel. Hind leys thickly clothed, not hirsute. 



Eccowpsodena secundella, sp. n. (PI. II., fig. 11.) 



Antenna and imlpi 'brown. Head and face ochreous. Thorax 

 umber-brown. Forewings pale ochreous, thickly mottled, speckled, 

 and suffused with umber-brown scales, the two colours alternating 

 along the costa in unequal spaces throughout ; a rather strong 

 patch of umber-brown scales lies at the end of the disc, which 

 appears to be the only point at which this colour is more concen- 

 trated than on the remainder of the wing-surface, although it 

 somewhat prevails also towards the apex and tornus ; cilia pale 

 ochreous, with an umber-brown parting line along their middle, and 

 another at their extremities. Exp. al., 22 mm. Hindwings purplish 

 fuscous ; cilia cinereous, with a dark parting line near their base. 

 Abdomen purplish fuscous, anal tuft inclining to ochreous. Legs 

 dull ochreous. 



Type. . 



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

 C. Good) ; unique. 



This has so much the appearance of Compsoctena pri- 

 mella } 2i., that it might easily be mistaken for that species, 

 but the neuration differs in the forking of veins 7 and 8, 

 and the meeting of veins 9 and 10 towards the costa of 

 the forewings, and the palpi are very much shorter. 



