"BBTOPHILOPSIS. OCHEOTHEIPA. 317 



5 . Fore "wing with the curved lunulate mark beyond the 

 aiitemedial line and the patch beyond the postmedial line black-browu 

 shading to brown at termen and forming a comet-shaped patch. 



I^ab. Gold Coast, gekondi (Ilamlyn), 1 cJ type, Ashanti (Dudgeon), 

 1 $ . E.vj). 22 millim. 



6621. Bryopliilopsismelanoleuca,n.sp. (Plate CLXXXII. fig. 28.) 



Head and thorax creamy white, the tegulae suffused with 

 blackish towards tips, the metathorax with some blackish scales 

 before the crest; palpi and frons at sides black; antennae black 

 except basal joint ; fore tibiae and the tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen brown, the basal segment and ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing creamy white ; a black point at base ; subbasal line 

 indistinct, with black spot on costa, sinuous, ending at submedian 

 fold, and with small black spot beyond it in cell; antemedial line 

 black, oblique and slightly sinuous to submedian fold, incurved at 

 vein 1, a quadrate patch of black suffusion beyond it from costa to 

 above median nervure ; the inner medial area suffused with black, 

 brown and grej% its upper edge curved ; reniform with its centre 

 defined by black, hoop-shaped, open below ; postmedial line black 

 defined on outer side hj white, bent outwards and almost obsolete 

 below costa, then oblique and minutely waved, the area beyond it 

 purple-grey except at costa with some red-brown suffusion beyond 

 the subterminal line at discal and submedian folds ; snbterminal 

 line white defined on inner side by black except at costa and towards 

 inner margin, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, some black 

 beyond it at apex and middle ; a series of black points defined on 

 inner side by white just before termen from apex to vein 2 and a 

 black striga above tornus ; cilia with some white at middle. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white, the veins tinged with brown, the termen 

 and cilia except at base tinged with brown to submedian fold ; the 

 underside with the costal area irroratcd with brown. 



Bab. Gold Coast, Kumasi (Whiteside), 1 (S type; S. Nkjeeia, 

 Olokemeji (Dudgeon), 2 J, Sapele (Samjpson), 1 §, llesha 

 (Humpli)-ey), 1 cJ • Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus OCHHOTHEIPA, nov. 



Type, 0. leptochroma. 



Proboscis I'ully dereloped ; palpi upturaed, tlie 2nd joint reacliing to just 

 above vertex of bead and slendei-Iy scaled, the 3rd very long and somewhat 

 dilated at extremity ; frons smooth with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennas of female minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with depressed crest; fore 

 tibia; broadly fringed with hair on both sides, the mid and hind tibiaj 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen witli dorsal crests on basal segments. 

 Pore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly 

 crenvilate ; yeins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long narrow areole ; 11 from cell. ITiud 

 wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 6 fully developed irom above 

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



