200 [October. 



Head dark ferruginous-brown. 



Thorax ferruginous, with a broad white transverse bar in front, and another 

 behind it, the latter coming forward on tbe sides and almost joining two conspicuous 

 ■wliite lateral patches on the ua*ier-side. 



Fore-wings cleft to move than one-third of their length, apical lobe depressed 

 at the apex, second lobe strongly scalloped ; dark ferruginous-brown ; an indistinct 

 paler ferruginous streak below the costa on the basal fourth ; another about the 

 middle of the costa, haying some white scales at its lower edge ; a pale ferruginous 

 bar across the base of the anterior lobe, in which are also some white scales, is 

 followed by a blackish streak in the costal cilia, which are pale ferruginous beyond 

 it, extreme apex blackish ; on the dorsal margin is a minute white spot about the 

 end of the dorsal third ; a broad white transverse bar crosses the base of the second 

 lobe, and is followed by some scattered white scales in the cilia within the cleft, 

 which, with this exception, are dark ferruginous-brown ; on the dorsal margin, below 

 and before the white bar, the cilia are pale ferruginous, beyond it dark purplish- 

 brown, then again pale ferruginous within the crescent-shaped apical margin, which 

 is preceded by an oblique line of white scales. Exp. alar., 14 mm. 



Hind-wings, anterior lobes cleft to two-thirds of their length ; pale ferruginous 

 before the cleft, shading into deep purplish-brown beyond it ; third lobe pale 

 ferruginous, with a small triangular tuft of deep brown scales at the middle of the 

 dorsal margin, and a broad spatule of dark purplish-brown scales at the apex, pre- 

 ceded by projecting white scales on the dorsal margin immediately before it. 



Abdomen ferruginous, with a broad, conspicuous, raised, shining white band 

 before the middle, beyond wliich is a second interrupted whitish band, and beyond 

 it a third, uninterrupted, but less conspicuous, than the first. 



Legs ferruginous, barred with conspicuous white bands above, fringed at each 

 joint with long erect ferruginous scales ; spurs very long, the inner one longer than 

 the outer (reaching a length of nearly 2 mm. in the anterior pair), white, tinged with 

 ferruginous, and blotched with blackish on their outer sides ; second pair of spurs 

 of equal length. 



Hah. : Gold Coast, Accra, one specimen, 1881 {Carter). 



Type, ? , Mus. WIsm. 



UTUCA, Wkr. 

 Cat. Lp. Ins., B. M., XXX, 951 (1864). 

 Type TJtuca ocliracealis, Wkr. 

 Antennce (?) simple, more than half tlie length of the wings. 

 Maxillary palpi obsolete. 



Labial palpi recurved, closely appressed ; apical joint, porrect, scarcely pro- 

 jecting beyond the front of the head. 

 Head clothed with bifid scales. 



Fore-wings narrow at the base, gradually and evenly widened outwardly, apex 

 depressed and rounded, anal angle ill-defined, apical margin very oblique ; a very 

 short fissure from above the middle of the apical margin cannot be said to divide 



