88 DB. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE ArBICAN [Jan. 14, 



The sftcondaries are suboval, with the outer margin evenly rounded. 

 The costal and inner margins are straight between the angles. 

 The cell is long, reaching a little beyond the middle of the wing. 

 Vein 7 before the end of the cell, twice as far from 6 as 8 ; disco- 

 cellulars faint, erect ; vein 5 present, equidistant from veins 4 and 

 6 ; vein 3 before the end of the cell ; vein 2 twice as far from 

 the base as from the end of the cell ; veins 1 a and 1 6 straiglit. 

 Between veins 1 a and 1 b there is a narrow fold heavily clothed 

 with long tufts of hair-like scales. Interval 1 is likewise clothed 

 heavily with long scales. Palpi : first joint short, second joint 

 long, both heavily clothed with scales ; second joint erect, rising 

 to the top of the vertex ; third joint short, obtuse, slightly porrecl, 

 clothed with fine minute closely appressed hairs. 



Type G. mcilillei, Holl. 



Mons. Mabille has designated a number of species by the 

 generic name Oastrochceta in his own collection and in the col- 

 lection of Dr. Staudinger, as well as in my own collection. I 

 discover, however, that he has nowhere published an account of 

 this genus. In the ' Entomological News,' vol. v. p. 28, I pub- 

 lished a species under this name as Gastrochcela mabilhi. As this 

 was the first time that the name appears to have been published, the 

 species to which I have applied it must stand as the type of the 

 genus. In many respects there is a superficial resemblance 

 between the species included iji tiiis genus and those included in 

 the genus Oorgyra, some of the species of which Mons. Mabille 

 has labelled in the Staudinger collection as belonging to that 

 genus. An examination of the palpi and the neuration, however, 

 instantly reveals the difference. 



125. G-. MABILLEI, Holl. 



Qastrochaia mabillei, Holl. Ent. News, vol. v. p. 28, pi. i. 

 figs. 15, 16 (1894). 



Ilab. Valley of the Ogove. 



126. G-. MEZA, Hewitson. (Plate II. fig. 9.) 



Hespena meza, Hew. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) vol. xix. p. 79 

 (1877). 



Apaustus batea, Ploetz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 359 (1879), vol. xlv. 

 p. 153 (1884). 



Pamphila bubovi, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit. vol. xxxviii. p. 25] , 

 pi. vi. fig. 10 (1894). 



Oastrochceta varia, Mab. MS., in Staudinger coll. 



Hab. Tropical West Africa, from Angola (Hew.) to Togoland 

 (^Karsch). Very abundant at Gaboon. 



This species was origiually determined for me by Mons. Mabille 

 as Oastrochceta varia, Mab., upon comparison with specimens 

 so labelled in his collection and that of Dr. Staudinger, hut I 

 cannot find that he has ever published a description under this 

 name. 



