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NEW AFRICAN BItEPANULIDAE, TnYRIDIDAE, 

 EPIPLEMIDAb], AND GE03IETBIDAE IN THE TRING 



MUSEUM. 



By W. warren, M.A., F.E.S. 



Family DRKPA NULIDA E. 



Archidrepana gen. nov. 



Fnrewinijs: costa evenly curved; i\\>ex bluntly produced; liindrnargin sinuous, 

 gilihous in middle, incurved above and bi'low. 



Ilindwings : well rounded, the liin(hn:irgiu slightly bulged between veins 3 

 and 5. 



;\ntenuae short, unipectinate ; the jieetinations long, even in the ? ; \m\\>i quite 

 sliort, not reaching front of fiice; tongue anil frenulum absent; pectus woollv ; 

 abdomen stout. 



Neuraticm: forewings, cell quite half as long as wing; discocellular inangulated 

 in middle, again angulated outwards just above end of cell; first median nervule 

 at two-thirds, second shortly before end ; vein 5 from the outward angulation of 

 discocellular ; (3 and 7 from upper angle of cell ; 8, 9, 10 stalked, 8 anastomosing 

 with 7 shortly before end, forming an excessively long narrow areola ; 1 1 free : hind- 

 wings, 7 from long before angle of cell, appro.ximated to 8 ; the rest as in forewings, 

 but 5 close above 4. 



Type: A. saturniaia sp. nov. 



1. Archidrepaua saturniata sp. nov. 



Forewiiigs : tawny yellow, with red-brown striations; costal area pale-grey; 

 marginal area washed with grey ; first line brown, somewhat indistinct, from below 

 costa at one-third to inner margin at one-fourth ; outer line from three-fourths of 

 costa, oblique outward.s, angled below vein 7, then obliquely curved to two-thirds of 

 inner margin, thick, velvety brown ; median area between the lines sufJ'used with 

 tawny, except a small yellow s[iace before outer line between veins 4 and 6; tlie 

 veins brown ; the grey marginal area with a yellow patch in the middle of hind- 

 margin ; on the discocellular is a large, i)&\e. yellow, semi-hyaline patch, sliaped 

 somewhat like a clover-leaf, followed by a small round spot; miderneath it are two 

 round spots of the same colour, above and below vein 2 ; fringe tawny. 



Hindwinf/s : witli the two brown lines produced across the wings, the outer one 

 central; the median space narrower; a squarish dark brown spot at end of cell, 

 followed by a pale yellow blotch ; basal area pale yellow ; marginal half yellow, 

 freckled with brown, towards apex sufl'uscd with fuscous grey; a brown submargiiial 

 spot between veins 2 and 3. 



Underside paler and duller, with the iniirkings of upperside indicated; hindwiiig 

 with an additional obscure cm-ved submargiiial line. Thorax and abdomen yellowi.sh 

 varied with brown; bead and shoulders pale grey; antennae whitish; palpi dark 

 lirown. 



Expanse of wings : 52 mm. 



One ? from (heat Comoro Island. 



