Species of African Lepidoptera. 293 



Genus Oxypalpus*, Watson, MS. 



15. Oxypaljpus annulifer^ sp. n. 



$ . Head and body dark brown above^ lighter below ; 

 palpi and breast greyish. Wings above very dark rich 

 brown, spotted with dark fulvous. The spots are as follows : — 

 Upon the primaries a small subapical spot ; a small linear 

 spot at the end of the cell near the lower edge ; three sub- 

 hastate spots forming an oblique discal series beyond the 

 cell, the middle spot, whicli is the largest, immediately adja- 

 cent to the small spot in the cell, a short basal ray on the 

 inner margin. Upon the secondaries there are two linear 

 spots beyond the cell upon the median interspaces near their 

 origin, forming a short fascia at right angles to the inner 

 margin. The fringes are dark fulvous and the fold of the 

 inner margin is marked by fulvous hairs. Upon the under- 

 side the primaries are much lighter than upon the upperside. 

 The costa at the base and the apex are brownish grey. The 

 spots of the upperside are reproduced, but much larger and 

 less sharply defined. The secondaries upon the underside 

 are dark ferruginous brown, shading near the middle of the 

 inner margin into yellowish brown. The costa near the 

 base is blackish. There are two minute black spots near the 

 base and a median and a submarginal transverse band of 

 blackish annular spots. The margin is bordered with black, 

 heaviest at the anal angle. The fringes are fulvous. 



Expanse of wings 32 millim. 



Ilah. Ogove Valley. 



Type in Coll. Holland. 



Genus Procampta f, gen. nov. 



16. Procampta vara, sp. n. 



^ . The prevailing colour of the body and wings above 

 and below is dark umber, lighter below and darkest upon the 



* The type of this genus, which will shortly be published by Lieut. 

 Watson, is Pamphila ignita, Mabille. 



t Pkocampta, gen. nov. 



Allied to Anisochoria, Mab. Body slender. Palpi moderately long, 

 slender, porrect, appressed, with the second article heavily clothed with 

 hairs and the terminal article slender. Fore wing rounded at base, con- 

 vex on middle of costa, and slightly concave before apex ; apex truncate 

 outer margin straight ; outer angle not rounded, inner margin straight. 

 Posterior wing subpyriform and very convex on outer margin. 



Type P. rciva, Uollaud. 



