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broad irregular sinuate light brownish-ochreous or brownish sub¬ 
terminal shade, expanded and darker towards costa : cilia yellow, 
more or less barred brownish. Hind wings yellow ; a fuscous discal 
spot before middle; second line, subterminal band, and cilia as in 
forewings. 
Belgian Congo, Eala, bred May from larvae rolling leaves of 
coffee-plant (Coffeci) (H. I. Bredo)', 6 ex. (type Belg. Cong. Mus.). 
Lygropia anthracopis, n. sp. 
5 . 32 mm. Head, palpi, thorax brownish-orange. Eorewings 
pale uniform grey; small black spots in disc at £ and middle: cilia 
pale grey. Hindwings pale grey, slightly speckled somewhat 
darker ; cilia pale grey. 
Belgian Congo, Lulua, Kafakumba, December ( F . G. Overlaet ); 
1 ex. (Belg. Cong. Mus.). Near muscerdalis Z. 
Margaronia aethrophanes, n. sp. 
2 . 36 mm. Head, thorax, abdomen white, shoulders ochreous- 
brown. Palpi ochreous-yellow mixed black, white at base beneath. 
Forewings white with faint violet tinge; a light greyish costal 
stripe from base to beyond middle, apex suffused ; a minute black 
dot beneath this towards base; a pale yellowish dot partially 
blackish-circled beneath costal stripe at ^ of wing, and another on 
upper angle of cell, connected by a faint whitish-ochreous bar on 
transverse vein with another on lower angle; a very small whitish- 
ochreous spot edged grey irroration beneath vein 2 near origin ; 
extreme terminal edge pale greyish-ochreous with a series of 
blackish linear dots : cilia white. Hindwings colour, terminal line 
and dots, and cilia as in forewings ; a blackish dot on lower angle 
of cell. 
Belgian Congo, Kivu, Ngoma, October ( L . Burgeon ); 1 ex. 
(Belg. Cong. Mus.). 
Margaronia putrescens, n. sp. 
<$ $ . 27-29 mm. Head ferruginous, a white line on sides of 
forehead. Palpi white. Thorax ochreous-whitish, shoulders 
suffused ferruginous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewings 
somewhat elongate-triangular, termen rather obliquely rounded; 
violet-ochreous-whitish; costal area ferruginous towards base, a 
faint tinge extending to beyond middle ; three faint greyish dots in 
cell from before its middle to end; second line at |, very faint, cloudy, 
greyish, median third forming a subquadrate loop posteriorly : cilia 
whitish. Hindwings colour, second line, and cilia as in forewings; 
a faint greyish mark on end of cell. 
5 ex., sent by Prof. F. Silvestri, reared (together with Acrocercops 
carcharota Meyr.) from a species of Stajpelia ( Asclepiadaceee ) in a 
hothouse at San Remo; doubtless imported with their foodplant 
from South Africa. 
