GELECHIADJE. 
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deep purple, apical third white. Abdomen deep purple, towards 
apex suffused ochreous-yellow, veutral surface ochreous-yellow. 
Forewings 4 separate; deep purple; a rounded-triangular light 
ochreous-yellow median blotch reaching from above middle to near 
dorsum : cilia shining bronze. Hindwings dark purple-fuscous ; 
cilia bronzy, a darker basal shade. 
Belgian Congo, Marungu Plateau, 7000 feet, February (Barns); 
1 ex. 
Ptilothyris climacista, n. sp. 
<j>. 21 mm. Forewings 4 out of 2; dark purplish-fuscous; a 
narrow elongate yellow spot extending in disc from end of cell 
half-way to apex : cilia fuscous. Hindwings dark fuscous; an 
oblique yellow band from middle of dorsum to middle of costa 
divided by longitudinal streaks of groundcolour into three blotches: 
cilia rather dark fuscous (imperfect). 
Cameroons, Bitje, Ja liiver, 2000 feet (Bates); 1 ex. In 
damaged state, but easy of recognition. 
LYSIPATHA, n. g. 
Head smooth; ocelli posterior; tongue developed. Antennae 1 (?)» 
basal joint elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi very long, 
recurved, smooth, slender, terminal joint longer than second, acute. 
Maxillary palpi very short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior 
tibiae with rough projecting hairs above, more prominent on origin 
of spurs. Forewings 2 and 3 stalked from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 
7 to costa, 11 from middle. Hindwings somewhat over 1, trape¬ 
zoidal, termen hardly sinuate, cilia 5 ; without cubital pecten ; 
3 and 4 short-stalked, 5 rather approximated, 6 and 7 nearly 
approximated at base. 
A development of Lecithoeera. 
Lysipatha cyanoschista, n, sp. 
$. 15 mm. (Head rubbed.) Palpi pale yellowish, anterior 
edge of terminal joint black. Thorax blackish. Forewings very 
elongate, apex obtuse, termen rather obliquely rounded ; blackish; 
three ochreous-yellow oval spots in a transverse series in disc at 3 , 
lowest more elongate anteriorly: an elongate-oval deep ochreous- 
yellow blotch extending in disc from before middle to f, with two 
acute posterior projections touching termen; a fine yellowish 
terminal line : cilia dark purple-fuscous, outer half white on apex 
and upper half of termen. Hindwings deep ochreous-yellow: a 
blackish costal band, with a triangular projecting lobe towards 
base, and a projecting bar on end of cell; a narrow irregular 
blackish fascia from this along | of termen, with a submedian 
triangular projection ; cilia pale yellowish, dark grey round apex 
and on a large median patch of termen, a blackish basal line on 
termen except towards tornus. Hindwings beneath orange, two 
blotches on costa, one on middle of termen, and some veins black, 
vol. hi. — November 1926. u 
