66 Lord Walsingham on Western 



TIQUADEA, Wkr. 



Ti quadra Uchenea, sp. n. (PI. III., fig. 26.) 



Antennae fawn-brown. Palpi, second joint with a loose pro- 

 jecting tuft beneath, apical joint of about equal length, erect, also 

 thickly clothed ; fawn-brown. Head and thorax fawn-brown, the 

 latter pale greenish posteriorly. Forewings very hirsute, with 

 patches of upstanding scales, all the margins with rough cilia, 

 except on the basal third ; pale bluish green with spots and ill- 

 defined cross-streaks of raised coarse hair-like fawn-brown scales, 

 giving a somewhat reticulated appearance ; of these some at the 

 end of the disc, and others above and about the outer third of the 

 fold, are more conspicuously raised ; the outer half of the costa, 

 which is very roughly fringed, is distinctly chestnut-brown, and 

 this colour extends narrowly towards the base, the termen also has 

 some chestnut- brown scales, but the majority of the cilia are dirty 

 whitish. Underside fawn-ochreous. Exp. al. t 24 mm. Hiudwings 

 and cilia fawn-ochreous. Underside the same. Abdomen fawn- 

 ochreous. Legs slightly paler than the abdomen. 



Type. $ . 



Sab. French Congo Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev. 

 A. C. Good); unique. 



An interesting species allied to goochii, Wlsm. 



ADELINE. 

 NEMATOIS, Hb. 

 Nematois pan-ella, Wkr. (PL III., fig. 27.) 



Nematois parvella, Wkr., Cat. Lep. Ins. B.M., 

 XXVIII., 504 (1863) 1 . 



Antenna three times as long as the forewings ; cinereous. Palpi 

 almost obsolete. Head cinereous, with some metallic scales. Thorax 

 purplish, with metallic scales. Forewings narrow at the base, 

 widened outwardly, costa depressed to the apex ; purplish cinereous, 

 richly studded with brassy metallic scales, strongly iridescent in 

 different lights, with three yellowish ochueous patches : the first on 

 the dorsal half at the base ; the second triangular, narrowly 

 margined with black scales, extending inwards from the costal 

 margin about the middle to the fold ; the third lying beyond the 

 end of the cell, occupying the middle of the apical portion of the 

 wing, and produced narrowly inwards and upwards to the com- 



