418 
XOCTUIDiE. 
with brown, an oblique rather diffused red-brown postmedial 
line, and faint subterminal shade. 
Hub. S. Nigeria, Ilesha ( Humfrey ), 1 <$ type. Exp. 40 
millim. 
Genus PYROBLEMMA, nov. 
Type, P. villicosta. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd and 
3rd joints fringed with hair in front and behind ; frons 
smooth, with pointed tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; 
antennae of male bipectinate, the branches ending in bristles, 
the apical third with bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed with 
hail- and scales mixed and without crests ; fore tibiae of male 
tufted with long hair, the mid tibiae fringed on both sides 
with long hair, the hind tibiae moderately fringed with hair 
on both sides ; abdomen with some rough hair at base of 
dorsum but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 
the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; no areole ; 
veins 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one- 
third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed 
from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 
with the cell near base only. 
Pyroblemma villicosta, n. sp. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous yellow ; 
antennae and palpi pale red-brown ; pectus in front, fore 
and mid legs red -brown. Fore wing pale ochreous yellow, 
the costal area suffused with rufous, the terminal area slightly 
irrorated with brown ; the medial area with a broad pale 
rufous shade ; postmedial line with blackish spot below 
costa, then indistinct, fuscous, diffused, bent outwards from 
below vein 7 to below 5, then oblique to vein 2 and outwardly 
oblique to inner margin ; a faint dark line from costa before 
apex to the postmedial line below vein 7 and a waved line 
from it below vein 5 to tornus. Hind wing pale ochreous 
yellow with the area beyond the cell deeper yellow from 
costa to vein 3 except at termen ; a slight rufous patch 
beyond the cell between veins 4 and submedian fold with a 
slight dark spot on it below vein 2 ; the inner area with some 
dark irroration except towards base. Underside pale ochreous 
yellow ; fore wing with the costal area suffused with red- 
brown to beyond middle ; hind wing slightly irrorated with 
brown. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Bibianaha (Spurrell), 1 type. Exp. 
50 millim. 
