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point at extremity, the 3rd long and thickly scaled below ; fron.s with small 

 pointed conical process at middle ; eyes large, smooth ; antennae shghtly dilated 

 towards extremity ; tibiae shghtly fringed with hair and without spines ; abdomen 

 with hairy crests on basal segments. Forewing very narrow, the apex roimded, 

 the termen evenly curved ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from just 

 above angle; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing \vith 8 to form the 

 areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsoles- 

 cent from middle of discoeellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



In key differs from Paraegocera in the frons having a small pointed conical 

 prominence, the forewing very narrow. 



1346. Aethodes angustipeimis n. sp. 



(J. Head and thorax purpUsh red mixed with white ; antennae brown ; 

 frons white ; palpi white with a dark brown band on 2nd joint, the 3rd joint 

 brown ; pectus and hindlegs yellowish ; fore- and midlegs banded brown and 

 white ; abdomen yellow, the crests black-brown. Forewing purphsh red thickly 

 irrorated with wliite ; a diffused inwardly oblique white antemedial band defined 

 on outer side by deeper red patches in and below the cell ; a deep red discoidal 

 patch with sinuous line from it to inner margin ; postmedial Une deep red, rather 

 diffused, excurved below costa, then obhque and shghtly waved : a rather den- 

 tate deep red subterminal shade with a small spot beyond it at discal fold ; the 

 apex rather suffused with red. Hindwing pale orange-yello^-, the termen narrowly 

 pale red on apical half. Underside pale orange-yellow ; forewing with the 

 terminal area purpUsh red, broadly at costa and narrowing to tornus ; hindwing 

 with the apex narrowly pale red. 



Hab. N. Nigei-ia, Mnna (Macfie), 1 cJ type. Exp. 36 mill. 



