OSCOPHORIDAE, 
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whitish-ochreous, with grey subbasal ancl subapical lines, becoming 
darker and confluent on costa. Hindwings grey ; cilia light grey, 
a darker basal shade. 
Cameroons, Johann-Albrechts Hohe Station ( Oonradt ) ; 1 ex. 
(Coll. Paravicini). 
Piloprepes phtbdromima, n. sp. 
c $ . 18 mm. Head white, crown centrally suffused dark grey, 
face mixed grey and black. Palpi white, second joint suffused grey 
on basal | and with a blackish subapical ring, terminal joint mixed 
dark grey. Antennal ciliations fasciculated (4). Thorax white 
mixed grey and dark brownish. Forewings suboblong, costa 
anteriorly moderately arched, somewhat sinuate beyond middle, 
edge broadly prominent with rough projecting scales before this, 
apex obtuse, termen obliquely rounded ; white, irregularly mixed 
or sprinkled grey; a very undefined basal patch of grey and dark 
grey suffusion, including an ochreous-brown suffused spot; an 
oblique suffused grey streak in disc before middle, and one from 
posterior edge of costal scale-prominence : cilia long, white, basal 
half suffusedly mixed grey. Hindwings white ; two or three short 
streaks of grey suffusion between veins towards apex; cilia grey, 
round apex and upper part of termen whitish on outer f. 
British Hew Guinea, Owgarra (Meek) ; 1 ex. (Coll. Paravicini). 
A curious form. 
PYEOPHRACTXS, n. g. 
Head with appressed scales, sidetufts loosely raised ; ocelli 
posterior; tongue developed. Antennae $ shortly ciliated 
( $ probably evenly ciliated), scape elongate, with developed 
pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved, second joint with 
appressed scales, terminal joint as long as second, somewhat 
roughened with scales anteriorly, acute. Maxillary palpi very 
short, filiform, appressed to tongue. Posterior tibiae with rough 
scales above. Forewings 1 b furcate, 2 from angle, 7 and 8 
stalked, 7 to apex, 11 from middle. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal- 
ovate, cilia | ; 3 and 4 connate, 5 rather curved and approximated 
to 4 at base, 6 and 7 parallel. 
Allied to Machimia ; general characters not very pronounced, 
but will not fall within any other genus. 
Pyrophractis isotherma, n. sp. 
$ . 20 mm. Head, thorax red mixed yellow.. Palpi crimson 
irrorated dark fuscous, extreme tip of second joint, and basal, 
median, and apical rings of terminal pale yellow. Abdomen 
whitish-ochreous. Forewings moderate, rather dilated posteriorly, 
costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen rounded, little oblique; 
red, veins irregularly lined light ochreous-yellow ; three slightly 
curved oblique dark purple-fuscous lines, first from base of costa to 
near base of dorsum, somewhat toothed, second from costa at 
^ to middle of dorsum, third from costa at £ to tornus, a branch 
