. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ENISPA. MICRACOXTIA. 61 \ white, a blackish discoidal bar, diffused brownish postmedial line, and lunulate fuscous subterminal shade. Hah. Gold Coast, Aburi {Johnstone), 1 c?; S. Nigeria, Old Calabar {Sampson), 1 S type. Exp. 18 millim. 5070. Enispa lycaugesia, n. sp. (Plate CL. fig. 20.) 5. Head dark brown; thorax and abdomen pale brownish ochreous ; fore legs browner. Fore wing pale brownish ochreous; a blackish point at lower angle of cell; a subterminal series of slight blackish spots in the interspaces. Hind wing pale br
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ENISPA. MICRACOXTIA. 61 \ white, a blackish discoidal bar, diffused brownish postmedial line, and lunulate fuscous subterminal shade. Hah. Gold Coast, Aburi {Johnstone), 1 c?; S. Nigeria, Old Calabar {Sampson), 1 S type. Exp. 18 millim. 5070. Enispa lycaugesia, n. sp. (Plate CL. fig. 20.) 5. Head dark brown; thorax and abdomen pale brownish ochreous ; fore legs browner. Fore wing pale brownish ochreous; a blackish point at lower angle of cell; a subterminal series of slight blackish spots in the interspaces. Hind wing pale brownish ochreous tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with fuscous except at base; a faint diffused darker medial shade with fuscous point on it at lower angle of cell; a subterminal series of slight fuscous spots ; the underside pale brownish ochreous. Hah. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar {Crompton), 2 $ type. Exp. 20 millim. Genus MICRACONTIA. rj Micracontia, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 301 batisella. Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to well beyond fi-ons, the 2nd joint fringed with hair above towards extremity, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male with long cilia ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled, the spurs long; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the terraen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked; ] 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from below middle of disco cellular s ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 5071. Micracontia batisella. Micracontia batisella, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 302; id. Moths Ind. iv. p. 521. S . Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous with an olive tinge, the vertex of head and shaft of antennae towards base pure white; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of
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