New Forms of African Lepidoptera 559 



We think that there is little doubt about these insects being sexes of 

 the same, and it is significant that the original specimens of ansorgei 

 and venosa were taken at the same place on the same day, two other 

 venosa being taken three days before. 



EUPTEROTIDAE. 



30. Phasicnecus pellucida sp. nov. 



$ . Wings hyaline bearing a few small black spots. Fore wing with 

 a spot in 2 and a smaller one above it in 3 placed about midway between 

 cell and margin, a small streak in 6. Hind wing with a subanal spot 

 in 2. Underside with only the upperside spots showing through. 



Head, thorax and abdomen above white ; frons, palpi, thorax and 

 abdomen below pale-ochreous. Antennae with shaft white, branches 

 fuscous. 



Length of fore wing : 19 mm. 



Habitat. — Lesse, Ituri Forest, January, 1920, one $ , taken flying 

 in the daytime. 



Apparently allied to peropalmus Roths., Nov. Zool., xxiv, p. 492, 

 1917 



31. Phasicnecus pulverulentus sp. nov. 



Figured in Barns' "Across the Great Craterland to the Congo," 

 *pl. lxxxi, fig. 13 $ , fig. 15 ? , 1923. 



$ . Upperside of fore wing Naples-yellow (xvi) inclining to mustard- 

 yellow (xvi), hind wing paler. Fore wing with a dark-yellow discal 

 line placed just beyond the cell, indistinct above vein 7, but at this 

 vein bent in to the costa. A postdiscal russet (xv) line, crenulate, and 

 more heavily marked below vein 4 ; a submarginal line, just indicated 

 above vein 4, and otherwise merged into a large russet patch between 

 the two lines ; this patch extends to between veins 5 and 6 and is much 

 narrower on the inner margin ; it is covered with small raised hyaline 

 scales. Hind wing without markings. 



Underside of uniform Naples-yellow, paler in distal area of fore wing 

 where the upperside marking shows through. Hind wing unmarked. 



Head and thorax apricot-yellow (iv), abdomen paler. Antennae 

 blackish-brown, palpi reddish-brown fringed with yellow, legs blackish- 

 brown, femora and tibiae with yellow hair. 



$ . Upperside fawn colour (xl), underside paler. Fore wing with 

 very indistinct discal dark line placed as in the $ . Postdiscal line as 



