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Hindwings : similar : but the outer line followed by much larger black blotches 

 from vein 6 to 2 ; the veins ochreous, mnch more distinct than in the forewiugs ; 

 traces of a pale dark-edged submarginal line ; the marginal line more develojied ; a 

 black cell-spot. 



Underside with the marginal area more or less tilled up with blackish, except 

 the apex of forewings and from below vein 4 of hindwings to anal angle. Head, 

 thorax, and abdomen olive-ochreous. 



Exjjause of wings : 20 mm. 



One ? from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, April 1897 (Dr. Roth). 



76. Gonodela conturbata sp. uov. 



Forewings : jiale brownish ochreous, thickly covered with short transverse 

 fuscous striae ; the lines dark fuscous, at one-fonrth, one-half, and tliree-fourths, all 

 parallel, oblique outwards, curved below costa, then waved inwards ; the outer line 

 dentate-lunnlate ; the median with a less distinct line just before it ; marginal area 

 filled up with fuscous and purplish grey, except a pale apical triangle, the outer line 

 being immediately followed by a thick diffuse shade ; cell-spot indistinct ; hind- 

 margin creuulate, with black lunules ; fringe ochreous and dark purplish grey, with 

 the base paler. 



Hindwings : similar ; a black line close to base ; cell-spot black, beyond the 

 double median line ; outer line projecting towards it as a black blotch ; submarginal 

 line pale and wavy, much more distinct than in forewings ; fringe ochreous, 

 chequered with dark-grey beyond the veins. 



Underside of forewiugs yellowish-tinged, except the white apical triangle ; 

 hindwings white ; the speckles, lines, and marginal shade all sienna-brown. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, antennae, and legs ochreous, speckled with brown. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



Several ? S from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, April 1897 (Dr. Roth). 



Hindmargin of both wings creuulate, of hindwings slightly angled at middle. 

 Distinguished by the brownish ochreous tint of the ground-colour above. 



77. Hypephyra triangulifera sp. nov. 



Forewings : pinkish fawn-colour, varied with short blackish transverse striie, and 

 with the scales scintillating ; a thick curved double brown line at one-fourth : median 

 line at two-fifths, bent at right angles beyond the cell-spot, the lower part marked 

 by brown spots or blotches on veins; the cell-spot annular, with brown edge; third 

 line at two-thirds, thick, black-brown, oblique outwards to vein 6, then like tlie 

 median line, bent at right angles and marked, very indistinctly, by brown dots 

 on veins ; the spots on the submediau vein in both cases larger and distinct ; 

 submarginal line at three-fourths, fine and waved, angled outwards on vein .5, and 

 connected by a deeper shade with the hindmargin, starting from an inwardly 

 oblique black-brown costal mark, which with the dark streak of the third line 

 forms a triangular blotch with a small black-brown spot inside ; a row of black 

 marginal spots ; fringe rosy. 



llindtvings : paler, especially towards base, with no markings except an 

 indistinct darker submarginal line. 



Underside dull pale yellow, striated with fuscous; a fuscous brown sub- 

 marginal fascia, connected, in forewings, with the hindmargin opposite the cell ; 



