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the margins of a large hour-glass-shaped patch across cell and a quadrate one 



beyond ; a subterminal row of chocolate and whitish lunulate dots. Hindwmg 



bright buff. 



Length of forewing : 24 mm. Expanse : 55 mm. 



Habitat. Sierra Leone (Major Bambridge), 1 ? ; Assaba River, Niger (Dr. 

 Cator), 1 ?. 



103. Moresa hieroglyphica spec. nov. 



$. Antennae bufi, pectmations amber-yellow ; head bufi tinged with rust- 

 red ; thorax dark grass-green ; abdomen orange-buff, suffused with rufous at 

 base. 



Forewmg dark grass-green ; costal one-fourth of wing buff, apical one-fifth 

 of this salmon-colour ; from cell partly coalescing with orange-buff stigma there 

 spreads a broad buff threefold band of crossed bars and digit-like bands to 

 termen, this band is tinged or splashed with rufous, a buff line fi'om it to inner 

 margin and one to vein 6. Hindwings buff suffused with salmon. 



Length of forewing : 32 mm. Expanse : 69 mm. 



Habitat. Teffe, Amazons, October 1907 (M. de Mathan), 1 ?. 



104. Moresa obliquiiascia spec. nov. 



cj. Antennae brownish buff ; head bright buff ■; thorax deep grass-green ; 

 abdomen salmon-orange. 



Forewing deep grass-green ; costo-subcostal area buff, outer half washed 

 with brown ; an irregular broad oblique bar from middle of cell almost to tornus 

 deeply notched at each end buff with sooty grey splashes. Hindwuig salmon- 

 buff ; abdominal one-third salmon-colour. 



Length of forewing : 22 mm. Expanse : 50 mm. 



Habitat. St. Jean de Maroni, French Guiana, 1 c?. 



105. Moresa plumbeiplaga spec. nov. 



?. Antennae black, pectinations amber-yellow ; head buff ; thorax deep 

 green ; abdomen brownish buff. 



Forewing deep green, costal edge sooty black-brown ; a large irregular 

 oblique brownish leaden-grey patch from below middle of subcostal almost to 

 termen between vein 4 and just below vem 2j a small white streak followed 

 by some very minute white dots runs into wing from costa about one-fifth from 

 apex. Hindwing : costal one-thhd buff, rest of whig huffish salmon-pink. 



Length of forewing : 24 mm. Expanse : 52 mm. 



Habitat. St. Jean de Maroni, French Guiana, 1 ?. 



106. Rosema klagesi spec. nov. 



<?. Antennae rufous brown ; head and thorax deep green ; abdomen crimson- 

 scarlet. 



Forewing dark grass-green, costo-subcostal area buff' tmged with rufous 

 and brown expanduig from base of vein 6 and running thence to termen along 

 this vein ; a large oval pale olivaceous apple-green patch occupies the whig 

 from termen to one-third from base and from umer marghi to two-thuds the 



