676 DE. A. G. BUTIrEB ON LEPIDOMEEA FEOM [NoV. 7, 



probably referable to Diospage, is Glaucopis iridea, Mabille ; but 

 Sphinx auratus (Stoll), Cramer, does not belong to the genus. 



165. NEUEOSYilPLOCA PEOCEIOIDES, Sp. n. 



Primaries smoky grey or semitransparent sooty black ; second- 

 aries darker, with, bright blue gloss : body black ; patagia ochreous ; 

 venter ochreous with black anal segment. Expanse of wings 32 

 millim. 



Zomba, January 1893. 



166. Anom^otes NiGEivEjrosus, sp. n. (Plate LX. fig. 10.) 



Allied to A. tenella, Holland ; orange-tawny ; semitransparent 

 primaries, with the veins black ; the costa, apex, and a narrow 

 decreasing external border diffused grey ; neuration distorted ; the 

 second and third subcostal branches on a very short footstalk ; 

 upper discoceUular continued transversely across the upper radial 

 and uniting close below it with the lower radial, which is thrown 

 forward from the third median branch at an oblique angle ; the 

 normal lower discoceUular thrown backwards as a forked recurrent 

 vein, its lower fui'ca uniting •«-ith the median vein just beyond the 

 second branch : secondaries wider than in A. tenella, the outer 

 border narro^iiy grey ; in the type the right-hand wing has partly 

 developed an upper radial vein between the second subcostal 

 branch and the ordinary radial : body tawny ochreous ; legs 

 brownish. Expanse of wings 31 millim. 



Zomba, July 1892. 



In low types of Lepidoptera Like the Phaudinte, the neuration 

 seems to be very variable ; so that characters which in some groups 

 would be of the utmost importance for generic purposes are seen 

 to be utterly unreliable : in all the most important features of its 

 neuration A. vigrivenosus agrees with typical Anomceotes. 



STAPHyLLNocHEOTJS, gen. nov. 



Nearest to Boradia : primaiies elongate triangular ; costal vein 

 throwing off three perpendicular veinlets to the margin before the 

 regular branches ; first and second branches emitted from a foot- 

 stalk before the end of the cell and united by an obhque veinlet to 

 the third above its separation from the fifth ; the third, fourth, and 

 fifth emitted from a footstalk which throws off the fifth branch 

 halfway between the cell and the furca formed by the third and 

 fourth branches ; anterior part of the cell projecting prominently 

 forwards ; lower radial and third median branch emitted together 

 from a short footstalk : secondaries with neuration as in Anomceotes, 

 but the anterior part of the cell projecting more prominently 

 forwards : body as in Boradia, Avith similar antennae. Type 

 S, whytei. 



167. SiAjPHYinfocHEOus whttei, sp. n. (Plate LX. fig. 11.) 



Orange-tawny ; apical two-sevenths of primaries occupied by a 

 belt of smoky grey, regularly tapering from costa to external angle ; 



