1908.] AFRICAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 751 



Hapsifera glebaxa, sp. n. 



c?. 15-19 mm. Head pale greyish -ochreous, with a few dark 

 fuscous scales. Palpi whitish-ochreous, basal f of second joint 

 and a median band of terminal joint su.ffused with dark fuscous. 

 Antennae pale greyish-ochreous, more whitish towards apex. 

 Thorax pale greyish-ochreous, more or less suffused with dark 

 fuscous anteriorly and at posterior extremity. Abdomen whitish- 

 grey. Foi^e wings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen extremely obliquely rounded ; 9 out of 7 ; pale 

 greyish-oclireous, sprinkled and irregularly strigulated throughout 

 with dark fuscous ; six moderate dark fuscovis costal spots ; 

 stigmata represented by small somewhat raised dark fuscous 

 spots, plical slightly beyond iirst discal, second discal larger ; a 

 series of small dark fuscoiis spots round apex and termen : cilia 

 whitish-ochreous sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hind wings pale 

 grey ; cilia whitish-ochreous tinged with grey. 



Transvaal, Pretoria {Janse) ; Uganda, Kampala ; from October 

 to March ; five specimens. 



PlTHAECHA, n. g. 



Head with dense loosely appressed scales ; ocelli present ; tongue 

 absent. Antennae |^, in S simple. Labial palpi moderately long, 

 curved, ascending : second joint clothed with dense projecting 

 scales beneath, forming a rough tuft, with two or three long 

 bristles externally ; terminal joint shorter, loosely scaled, obtuse. 

 Maxillary palpi short, drooping, filiform. Posterior tibiae clothed 

 with very long dense hairs. Fore wings with tufts of scales on 

 surface; 2 and 3 stalked, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex, 11 from ^. 

 Hind wings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia f ; 2-7 tolerably parallel. 



PiTHARCHA CHALIN^A, Sp. n. 



(S $ • 20-28 mm. Head pale greyish-ochreous. Palpi 

 whitish-ochreous, second joint except towards apex, and sometimes 

 two indistinct bands of terminal joint, suffusedly iri-orated with 

 dark fuscous. Antennae pale ochreous suffusedly spotted with 

 fuscous. Thorax pale greyish-ochreous more or less irrorated 

 with fuscous and dark fuscous. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. 

 Fore wings elongate, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen 

 obliquely rounded ; pale whitish-ochreous, sometimes partially 

 suffused with fuscous, iri^egularly and suffusedly strigulated with 

 dark fuscous, more distinctly on margins ; a narrow irregular 

 blackish-fuscous streak from costa at -f obliquely outwards, sharply- 

 angulated in middle and not reaching dorsum : cilia pale whitish- 

 ochreous sprinkled with dark fuscous. Hind wings in S greyish- 

 ochreous, in 5 gi'ey ; cilia whitish-ochreous, in 5 more or less 

 tinged with fuscous. 



iS. ISTtgeria, Wari ; Sierra Leone ; ISTyassaland, Zomba and 

 Blantyre ; in May, four specimens. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1908, No. XLYIIL 48 



