MOTHS FROM B. E. AFRICA. 717 



thick hair. Antenna? of male bipectinated for two-tliirds of length, 

 filiform at extremity ; female filiform throughout. Thorax 

 clothed with thick hair. Abdomen with paired dorsal tufts on 

 the somites. Legs clothed with long h.^ir on femora and tibiae, 

 especially the fore legs. Fore wing : apex rounded, the termen 

 crenulate. Veins 3, 4, 5 from lower angle of cell, 6 from upper 

 angle. Hind wing : veins 3, 4 from angle of cell, 5 from a little 

 above it, 6 and 7 stalked fi'om upper angle of cell. 



167. Galactomoia Berenice, sp. n. (PI. 1. fig. 15.) 



Description. — S . Head and thorax creamy white, tinged with 

 red-brown ; palpi red-brown ; extremities of tegulas and patagia 

 dark red-brown. Antennae red-brown, bipectinated for two- 

 thirds of length, filiform on outer third. Abdomen red-brown 

 except the two anal segments, which are creamy white, and the 

 vertex of the first two on which ai-e two dorsal creamy-white 

 tufts, the remainder of the dorsal tufts red-brown. Fore wing- 

 creamy white, basal area dark brown, narrowly on costa, and 

 continued obliquely outward to a point on vein 1, where it is 

 cut b}^ the antemedial line, where it forms an angle before 

 bending downwards to inner margin. Two i^ed-brown patches 

 on the costa, terminated by the antemedial and postmedial lines 

 inwardly. These two lines are obsolescent and only indicated 

 (1) where the antemedial line meets the brown area on vein 1, 

 and (2) where' the postmedial line crosses interspaces 1, 4, 5, 

 and 6, where it is indicated by traces of a black line. Hind wing 

 creamy white, with a red-brown spot at end of cell, and another 

 at anal angle, round, and defined above by a blackish spot on 

 inner margin. Cilia white, except below vein 3 on fore wing, 

 where it is red-brown. Underside white, costa ochreous, markevl 

 as on upperside, except that the basal spot is absent and there 

 is a spot at the end of cell. 



5 much paler, almost white. The black postmedial line com- 

 plete, dentate, excurved to points in the interspaces. Hind wing 

 with an indistinct red-brown submarginal line. 



Habitat. Masongaleni, 21st Maixh, 1911, 1 $. Kumasi, 

 W. Africa, 1 6 {A. Norris). 



The male specimen from Kumasi is a good deal darker in 

 coloration. There is a specimen of this form in the B. M. 

 Collection, but it has not yet received a name. 



Genus Giria, nov. 



Type, G. buhastis, sp. n. 



Proboscis fully developed. Palpi upturned, long, third joint 

 reaching well above vertex of head. Legs with the tibise covered 

 with long hair. Abdomen without crests. Antenna; filiform. 

 Fore wing comparatively short ; outer margin non-crenulate, 

 excurved to an angle at vein 4; a tuft of long hairs in cell on 

 underside; veins 3, 4 from lower angle of cell, 5 from just above 



