ODONTESTIS. — MACROCHTHONIA. 635 



angled outwards below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing silky 

 ochreous suffused with reddish brown ; cilia whitish at tips ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown. 



rig.254. — Odontcsds fuscicvna, ^. \. 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing ranch greyer and with hardly 

 any rufous tinge. 



Hah. N.E. Khodesia, E. Luangwa Distr. (Weave), 1 $ , Petauke 

 (Neave), 1 S , Lusangazi (Neave), 1 cT , 2 5 ; Poettjgijesb E. Africa, 

 Chinde (Neave), 1 <S type. Exjp. 26 millim. 



*7081. Odontestis mesonephele. (Plate CXCI. fig. 3.) 



Arcyothora mesonephele, Beth.-Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 431 (1909). 



5 . Head and thorax whitish suffused with rufous, the tips of 

 tegulse and base of patagia white ; abdomen dorsally brown, 

 ventrally whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing whitish slightly 

 irrorated with red-brown, the medial area and the terminal area 

 except at apex red-brown ; anteraedial line slight, brown, inwardly 

 oblique and minutely waved ; a large patch of bluish white irroration 

 in, beyond, and below end of cell ; an oblique waved brown line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown, very 

 oblique from costa to vein 5, then inwardly oblique and angled 

 outwards at vein 2 and to inner margin ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by two slight brown marks towards costa and a minutely 

 waved brown line from vein 6 to inner margin; cilia red-brown 

 except at apex. Hind wing fuscous brown, the costal area whitish ; 

 the underside brownish white. 



Hah. Congo Free State, Makala Distr. (^Powell-Cotton), type t 5 

 in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus MACROCHTHONIA. 



Type. 



. il/acroc^i'^oMM, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 599 fc7-vens, 



Eccopteroma, Stand. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 506 (1892) fervens. 



Proboscis full}' developed ; palpi upturned, the 2iid joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth, with tuft of 

 hair above; ejes large, round; antennae of male bipectinate with rather long 

 branches to two-tliirds length, the apex ciliated ; of female ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with scales and hair mixed, the prothorax with triangular ridge-like 

 crest; tibias moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen long, with dorsal crests 

 on two basal segments. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and 



