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middle ; a curved posterior series of cloudy dots of fuscous and 

 dark fuscous scales : cilia whitish-yellowish. Hind wings 

 ochreous-whitish, faintly fuscous-tinged ; cilia whitish -yellowish. 

 S. Nigeria, Wari, in May and August ; three specimens. 



Epimactis metazona, sp. n. 



5 . 25-26 mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, lower 

 half of second joint fuscous. Antenna3 grey, base white. Ab- 

 domen light yellow-ochreous. Fore wings suboblong, costa 

 moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen neai-lj^ straight, vertical ; 

 white ; second discal stigma, grey ; a narrow silvery-grey fascia 

 close before tei-men, dilated towards costa but not quite reaching 

 it : cilia white. Hind wings and cilia white. 

 Sierra Leoxe ; two specimens. 



Procometis Meyr. 



To this genus should be referred acutipennis Wals., described 

 under Apiletria, as well as the three following species. All four of 

 these agi'ee with the single known Indian species, P. trochcda, and 

 differ from all the Australian species (ten in number) in the 

 character of the labial palpi, which in these have the second joint 

 loosely haired above and the terminal joint relatively very short 

 (I or less), whilst in the Australian forms the second joint is 

 clothed with appressed scales and the terminal joint is as long as 

 second. Notwithstanding this distinction, the two groups are so 

 obviously closely related in all other characters, structural and 

 superficial, and connecting forms are so likely to be found eventu- 

 ally in intermediate regions (the differences being only com- 

 parative), that I think it best to treat them as congeneric ; but the 

 group to which the African and Indian species belong seems 

 worthy of a subgeneric name, and I therefore give it the name of 

 Hyostola. 



Procometis oxypora, sp. n. 



S . 33 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous. Palpi 

 with second joint loosely haii-ed above, terminal joint ^ of second ; 

 pale brownish-ochreous mixed with whitish. Antennae whitish. 

 Fore wings elongate, rather narrow, costa moderately arched, apex 

 very acute, produced, termen sinuate, extremely oblique ; pale 

 yellowish-ochreous, tinged with brown -reddish posteriorly ; a 

 broad very undefined streak of pale fuscous suffusion beneath 

 costa from before middle to apex, and some undefined pale fuscous 

 suffusion towards dorsum : cilia pale ochreous-yellowish. Hind 

 wings narrower than fore wings, with very long tornal cilia, and 

 large light ochieous-f uscou.s costal hair-pencil reaching to apex ; 

 grey, paler and whitish-tinged towards base ; cilia light ochreous - 

 fuscous, becoming light yellowish-ochreous towards tornus. 



Natal, Weenen, in January ; one specimen. 



