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This beautiful species is very closely allied to the genus Tegu- 

 lata, but differs so strikingly in its markings from all other species 

 of the genus, that I refer it, with some hesitancy, especially since 

 the outer portion of the wings is somewhat narrower and more 

 rapidly reduced in width than in any other species hitherto re- 

 ferred to the genus. 



BOMBYCID^E. 



CTENOGYNA Feld. 



10. C. (?) OQOVensiS r,p. nov. ,$ . Front, palpi and collar, pale fawn; 

 upperside of thorax and abdomen pale reddish fawn, with a dark brown 

 dorsal line upon the abdomen extending its whole length. The underside 

 of the body, together with the legs, grayish white with one or two dark 

 brown spots on the ventral line of the abdomen. Upperside: primaries 

 reddish fawn, with a minute black discal dot at the end of the cell. It is 

 further ornamented by irregularly curved and very narrow transverse 

 basal, median and sublimbal lines. A dark line runs from after the mid- 

 dle of the inner margin to the apex, being strongly angulated just before 

 reaching the apex. At its lower extremity upon the inner margin it is 

 accentuated by two silvery dots placed on its basal margin. The apex 

 above the angulation of this line is slightly paler than the rest of the wing. 

 There is a submarginal series of minute brown dots on the interspaces; 

 the fringes are dark brown. The secondaries are uniformly yellowish 

 ochraceous, with the anal angle and outer margin before the same tipped 

 with brown. Underside: both wings are yellowish white, with the costal 

 and outer area of the primaries and almost the entire body of the secon- 

 daries dusted with pale brown scales. The primaries are marked by a 

 transverse limbal line, which is dark brown on the costa and accentuated 

 by blackish linear dots upon the nervules where crossed by this line. The 

 nervules beyond this line are covered by dark brown scales, and the sub- 

 marginal series of brown dots which appears on the upperside reappears 

 on the lowerside. The secondaries have a small black discal dot at the 

 end of the cell, followed by a curved, but very indistinct, transverse me- 

 dian line, which does not reach the inner margin. The transverse limbal 

 line of the primaries is continued as a regularly curved line upon the sec- 

 ondaries and the black dots on the nervules are very sharply defined. 

 There is also a small brown spot at the outer angle. The fringes of the 

 primaries are dark brown; of the secondaries paler brown, 



$ . The female corresponds in all respects very closely with the male, 

 save that the transverse outer line on the upperside of the primaries is 

 not angulated before the apex and the markings on the underside of the 

 wing are more obscure, and the pectinations of the antennae are shorter. 

 Expanse: $ and 9 4 mm. 



Hab. Kangwe, West Africa. 



The female specimen on the plate was obtained from a cater- 



