AURIVILLIUS, APRICAN LASIOCAMPIDAE. 5 



J*. Palpi, antennae, patagiae, breast, legs and abdomen 

 below deep black; joints 2 — 5 of all the tarsi grey-white; 

 head and thorax above påle greyish brown; abdomen above 

 blackisli at the sides greyish brown. Wings subdiaphanous 

 sooty black; före wing with a black streak at end of cell, 

 some whitish döts at base, at costa, near termen and at inner 

 margin; an obsolete, waved rufous subterminal line; bind 

 wing greyish at base and broadly whitish at inner margin to 

 near tornus; termen obtusely dentate between tornus and 

 vein 2. Wings below with the veins påle a t termen. Ex- 

 panse 57 mm. 



Nigeria to Uganda. — Hope Collection, Oxford. 



Laeliopsis erythrura n. sp. — J". Ochreous yellow; sides 

 of the breast, base of wings on upper side, metathorax and 

 anal tuft (at last beneath) clothed with long red or reddish 

 hairs; före wing above with a small dot of white and blackish 

 scales at end of cell and a subterminal series of similar döts; 

 hind wing with dark subterminal döts as in punctigera. Ex- 

 panse 33 mm. 



Belgian Congo. — British Museum. 



Nearly allied to L. p^mctigera; wings somewhat shorter 

 and broader and the före wing more obtusely rounded at 

 apex. 



Pachymeta guttata n. sp. — J*. Head, thorax and före 

 wing above orange or golden yellow; abdomen, w^ings below^ 

 and hind wing above påle reddish fawn-colour without mark- 

 ings; före wing above vfith twö antemedian and two discal 

 strongly waved transverse brown lines, the discal lines at 

 vein 6 angled basad to costa; a very large (3—4 mm in dia- 

 meter) silvery spöt edged with brown at end of cell; terminal 

 part of wing paler more reddish, with a strongly angulated 

 and waved subterminal line from inner margin to near apex, 

 Expanse 63 mm. 



Gold Coast between the Coast and Kumasi; C. H. Mc 

 DowALL. — British Museum. 



Pachymeta capreolus n. sp. — ^. Head, thorax and 

 före wing on both sides greyish fawn-colour; före wing above 

 with a very obsolete dark subbasal line and an oblique nearly 



