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FOUR NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF 

 WEST AFRICAN SESIIDiC. 



r.v W . J. Hon. AM), I'll. I). 



In tlir I'ollowiiiy; paper 1 .Ljive dcscriplions ot four new ,i.;;t'iK'ra 

 and species of tropical West African Sesii{hx.\ wliieli were colleeleil 

 for me by the Rev. I )r. Ciood in the \alle\' of the Ojj^ovc. about 

 two lumdi-ed miles from the mouth of the river. I liave com- 

 pared the insects with the c-oUections tontaiiied in the Uritisli 

 .Mnseum. the National Collection at I'aris, and various Enj^lish 

 and l''rench private collections, to which I iiave had access, and 

 liave satisl'ied myself with reasonable certainty that they have not 

 as yet been descril)ed. \'ery little, in fact, has as yet been clone- 

 to eluciilate the natural history of the .\frican species of this 

 e.vceetlinj^ly interestint;' family of lepidoplerous insects. I jndji^e 

 that there must be many e.xceedinj^ly i urious forms in this y;roup 

 yet to be discovered in the rich tropical forests of etpiatorial 

 .\frica. 



Cicinnocnemis* L;en. no\. 



j'. — l',Tlpi lonji, proclucetl, and cJiiecteil upward, widely separated at llie base, 

 and converginjj towaril ihe extremities ; tiic third joint half as lonjj as the second, 

 whicli is ;;;reatlv elonj^ated ; all the joints are heavily clothed with hair. 'I he 

 anlcnn:e are more than half as loiijj as the costa of tiic primaries, terete, imbri- 

 caleil, simple at llie tijis. The second and third pair' of legs have tlie tibi.v 

 swollen at their e.\ircniitics. The second paii are armed at the e.xtreniiiy with 

 liouble spurs; the third pair have double median and double terminal spurs; the 

 third pair also have upon the upperside of the libiix; near their ui)per extremity 

 peculiar brush-like tufts of hair. The abdomen has a series of brush- like lateral 

 tufts of hair on the five last, sejjments. On the next to the last sejiinent there are 

 ill addition two lengthy pencils of hair which are directed downward. At the anal 

 extremity are two divergent similiar pencils of hair. In the |irimaries, vein live 

 spriiij^s from the lower end of the cell ; vein six from the upper end of the cell ; 

 veins seven and eight are stalked, the stalk springing from the same point as veins 

 six and nine. In the secondaries vein one has two branches ; four and live spring 

 from the lower end of the cell ; six anil seven are stalked ; and eight runs parallel 

 to the costa from the base, teiminating upon the i"-t:i l>'-fr>ie reaching the apex. 

 Type ('. contiita HoIl. 



C. coniuta sp. nov. 



. — I'alpi black on the upper side, bright orange below ; front bright oiange : 

 collar, upper side of thorax, and abdomen deep black ; the lateral tufts of hairs 

 bright orange ; the anal tufts black ; the pectus and the lower side of the abilomeii 

 bright orange ; the lower side of the thorax black with greenish iridescent reflec- 



KIKirvog ■= cincinnus ; /.-I'^/t/y = tibia. 



