PHYCITIDiE. 
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specks, costal edge suffused white; a cloudy blackish dot beneath 
fold before middle of wing, and one less marked on lower angle of 
cell: cilia light greyish with rows of whitish points. Hindwings 
whitish, faintly iridescent; cilia whitish, a faint greyish subbasal line. 
Sudan, Wad Medani, bred March from Pulicaria ( Inula) undulatci 
(H . B. Johnston) ; 4 ex. (type Brit. Mus.). 
Nephopteryx orphnanthes, n. sp. 
$ . 30-32 mm. Head whitish mixed grey and light brown- 
reddish, face with rounded scale-tuft. Palpi greyish-ochreous 
mixed whitish. Thorax light grey-brownish. Forewings very 
elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly gently arched, termen rounded, 
rather oblique; light brownish suffusedly irrorated white and 
sprinkled grey; first line near before middle, somewhat oblique, 
white, obsolete towards costa, indented near dorsum and blackish- 
edged externally, preceded by an irregular transverse ochreous 
blotch reaching | across wing, more or less irrorated blackish-grey, 
edged on both sides and above with blackish suffusion, and preceded 
by another rather incurved white line; second line at cloudy, 
whitish, angularly indented towards costa and on fold; a dark 
grey terminal line : cilia greyish-violet with rows of whitish points. 
Hindwings subhyaliue light grey, veins grey; a dark g'rey terminal 
line; cilia grey, base pale within a darker subbasal shade. 
Gold Coast, Tamale, bred July from larvae boring in fruits of 
Butyrospermum Parkii (Bapotcicece ) (6r. B. Cotter ell ); 2 ex. (type 
Brit. Mus.). 
Phycita calycoptila, n. sp. 
<3 . 19 mm. Head, palpi, thorax leaden-grey. Antennae with 
subbasal tuft forming a very large strong hollow cup-shaped 
expansion. Forewings very elongate-triangular, costa slightly 
arched towards apex, termen little oblique; whitish closely and 
suffusedly irrorated dark purple-grey, sprinkled brown in disc; 
lines slender, hardly paler, first before middle, somewhat bent 
towards costa, preceded by a dark purple-grey dorsal blotch of 
coarse rather raised scales reaching half across wing, and edged 
posteriorly by a blackish-grey line, second at margined anteriorly 
by a dark line and posteriorly by a brownish shade; a crescentic 
blackish line on end of cell; an interrupted blackish terminal line 
or series of marks: cilia grey speckled whitish, a darker subbasal 
shade. Hindwings subhyaline whitish, a grey terminal line; cilia 
whitish, a grey subbasal line. 
Belgian Congo, Elisabeth ville, November (C. Bey del) ; 1 ex. 
(Belg. Cong. Mus.). 
Tarquitia invisa, n. sp. 
3 . 26-27 mm. Head whitish-grey. Palpi, thorax grey mixed 
whitish, maxillary palpi short, densely scaled. Antennae fasciculate- 
ciliated (1). Forewings very elongate-triangular, termen bowed, 
