PTEROPHORIDiE.-SCYTHRID2E. 
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Platyptilia acanthodactyla Hb. 
Belgian Congo, Elisabethville, January to May, 14 normal 
specimens ( 0 . Seydel ); recorded from the Canary Is., but not 
hitherto further south ; I think, however, that it may possibly be 
spread artificially. 
Platyptilia proterischna, n. sp. 
$ . 22-23 mm. Head, palpi ochreous-whitish sprinkled dark 
fuscous. Thorax light brownish sprinkled dark brown. Eore- 
wings cleft to first lobe narrow, pointed, without termen, second 
equally narrow at base but slightly dilated posteriorly, termen very 
oblique, sinuate; brown, irregularly irrorated dark brown; some 
undefined dark fuscous suffusion at base of cleft, extended more 
broadly to costa; a fascia of dark fuscous suffusion crossing both 
lobes towards apex: cilia pale greyish or whitish-grey, some 
scattered blackish scales, a tornal blotch of blackish suffusion. 
Hindwings dark grey; cilia greyish, on dorsum of third lobe an 
undefined median group of black-tipped scales, and a few scattered 
before and beyond this. 
Belgian Congo, Elisabethville, March {C. Seydel) ^ 2 ex. (type 
Belg. Cong. Mus.). Distinguished from all others of the genus by 
the peculiar form of first lobe of forewings ; it is notwithstanding 
a true Platyptilia. 
Stenoptilia bipunctidactyla Haw. 
W. Darfur, Jebel Murra, Deriba Lakes, 8000 feet, April {Miss 
M. Steele ); 2 ex., carefully scrutinised. The locality, about 13° N. 
latitude, may probably be an interesting record of the southern 
limit of range of the species at this point. 
SCYTHEIDiE. 
Scythris bifractella Reb. 
I have seen the type of this species (described as a Laverna); it 
is allied to chelota Meyr. and other Indian forms. 
Scythris monochreella Rag. 
This is identical with lychnitis Meyr., which it supersedes. 
Scythris sophronia, n. sp. 
(S . 20 mm. Head, palpi, thorax light greyish. Abdomen dark 
grey with light grey segmental rings, anal tuft ochreous-yellowish. 
Forewings fuscous-grey: cilia concolorous. Hindwings dark grey ; 
cilia greyish. 
Belgian Congo, Elisabethville, May (C. Seydel) ; 1 ex. (Belg. 
Cong. Mus.). Nearest obstans Meyr. 
