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oblique, sinuous ; a black poiub at middle of cell and slight 

 discoidal lunule with point at lower angle of cell; postmedial line 

 indistinctly double, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then bent inwards to below end of cell and oblique to 

 inner margin, some black and whitish points beyond it on costa ; 



Fig. 109. — Bryothripa mkrphcea, c?. 1. 



subtcrminal line black defined on outer side by whitish, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of 

 slight blackish points; cilia blackish with a fine pale line at base. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia with a fine pale line at base ; 

 the underside grey suffused with brownish, the terminal area 

 fuscous from apex to submedian fold. 



Ab. 1. Thorax with more black ; fore wing largely suff'used with 

 purplish black, a small black discoidal spot ; hind wing more red- 

 brown. — Transvaal. 



Hah. S. Nigeria, Lagos (Dudr/eon),! cS type; Delagoa Bat 

 (Mrs. Ilonteiro), hi Coll. Druce ; Transyaal, White II. (Cooke), 

 1 c? , 1 $ . Ki'2). 24 millim. 



Genus BRYOPHILOPSIS. 



Type. 



BryopJulopsis, Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 361 (1894) griseata. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, very slender, the 2nd joint 

 hardly reaching to lu.ddle of fi'ons, the iird short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round; antennae of male with fascicles of long cilia; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales, the iiiesothorax with slight paired crests, the metathorax 

 wiih spreading crest; tibije smootlily scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests on 

 basal segments. Fore wing witii the apex rather produced, the termeu evenly 

 curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the rather long areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins '6, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed 

 from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 

 near middle. 



Sect. I. Fore and mid femora of male with lufts of long liair from base, the 

 former greatly dilated. 



6612. BryopMlopsis orientalis, n. sp. 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; pectus and legs 

 white tinged with ochreous ; abdomen brown with slight segmental 

 lines ; the ventral surface white. Fore wing white mixed with 

 brown, the terminal area darker from costa to vein 3, the medial 

 area with a black streak on a red-brown fascia in submedian fold ; 



