( 63 ) III. African Micro-Lejndoptera. By the Eight Honble. Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.E.S., F.L.S., &c. |Eead November 5th, 1890.] Plates III., IV., V., VI. & VII. I AM indebted to many kind correspondents for the material dealt with in this paper. Mr. Gilbert T. Carter, C.M.G., formerly Treasurer and now Administrator of the Gambia Settlements, has sent me many things from Accra and Bathurst, some of which have been dealt with in a previous paper (Trans, Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, 219—288, PL X.— XIII.). Mr. J. M. Hutchinson has collected for me atlvimbolton (.Estcourt), Natal. I have also received contributions from Mr. Herbert Bruce, Colonel Bowker, Mr. C. G. Barrett, and Mr. F. J. Jack-son ; the last collection as coming chiefly from the country between Kilima Njaro and the coast is especially interesting. The species described in this paper by no means exhaust the material, and I hope at some future time to work out the remainder. In the meanwhile the present considerable addition to the list of African Tineiche and Tortricidce may perhaps be useful to those who study the subject. The majority appear to belong to well-known European genera, several of which are now recorded for the first time as occurring in Africa. In my previous paper attention was drawn to certain genera which appear on both sides of the Atlantic ; no less than seven additions are here made to this list : — Phcscasiophora, Grote, Q^^ta, Grote, Ide, Chambers, Polyhymno, Chambers, Strohisia, Clemens, Anorthosia, Clemens, and Zarathra, Walker. Some of these have a still wider distribution, and will soon be also recorded as Asiatic. The genus Philohota, Meyrick, hitherto confined to the Australian region, is here recog-nised. It is extremely probable that a more intimate acquaintance than I possess with the numerous new Australian genera characterised by Meyrick would show TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1891.— TART I. (MARCH.)
BioStor
