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COMFSOCTENA, Z. 



Cdmpsoctcna media, sp. n. (PL III., fig. 25.) 

 Antennce dentate, shortly biciliate ; pale cinereous. Palpi pro- 

 jecting less than the length of the head beyond it, brush-like ; dull 

 ochreous with a few brownish scales. Head very roughly clothed ; 

 dull ochreous. Thorax whitish cinereous, transversely banded 

 with brown. Forewings whitish cinereous mottled and reticulated 

 with brown, a series of brownish patches along the costa ; three 

 small ones before the middle, of which the first two form the 

 upper edge of an ill-defined basal patch, a broad one on the middle 

 of the costa, forming the upper end of a somewhat broken trans- 

 verse fascia inclining slightly inwards to the dorsum, and two 

 beyond the middle, the first small, the second larger, before the 

 apex, also blending with a shade of brownish scales beneath it ; 

 the interspaces between these spots on the outer half of the costa 

 are ochreous, the costal cilia immediately above the apex being 

 also ochreous, and a slight ochreous shade runs through the base 

 of the cilia along the termen, in which are three more or less dis- 

 tinct lines of brown scales, the outer extremities of the cilia being 

 greyish. Exp. a/., 16 mm. Uindwing* purplish grey, cilia pale 

 cinereous with a faint ochreous parting line along their base. 

 Abdomen greyish, anal tuft ochreous. Legs brown, hind tarsal 

 joints annulated with pale cinereous. 



Type. $ . 



Hob. French Congo Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev. 

 A. C. Good) ; unique. 



This species appears to differ somewhat from Comp- 

 soctena primella, Z., in the formation of the antenna) 

 and in the shorter palpi, but the neuration is the same, 

 and its divergence from the type can be scarcely con- 

 sidered of generic value. 



MONOPIS, lib. 



(= I3LABOPHANES, Z.) 



Monopis monachella, Hb. 



= longella, Wkr. 88 [? = me-diella, F. 9 .] 

 [Alucita wediella, P., Ent. Syst. III. (2), 337, No. 2(3 

 (1798) ': Tinea mediella, F., Sppl. Ent. Syst 

 494, No. 73 (1798) 2 ] - Tinea monachella, Hb. 

 Sam ml. Ear. Schm., VIII., PL XXL, 143 (c. 1800) 3 ; 

 [1 Tinia mediella, TurtLn, Syst. Nat., III.; 38 L 



