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is ajiparently an organ of tVii^tion (the specimen conlil not be furtlier examiueil, as 

 dissection was not allowed). 



Hah. West Africa : Lolodoif, Cameroons (Conradt). 



One ? Ql/pe) in coll. Clias. Oberthilr. 



Baromhi and Interior (Prenss), 1 S and 1 ? in coll. Staudinger ; this species ? 



'^'116. Polyptychus enodia (PI. I. f. <i, ?). 



*nasw)ia eiiu,l;<i Holland, Tnni^. Amer. Eiit. Sue. xvi. p. (ICi. n. 24. t. 4. f. 3 (188',0 (Kangwi' :— cnll. 

 Holland) : Kirby, Oit. Lep. Ilet. i. p. 702. n. C (1S92) (W. Africa). 



?. Tongne short, hnt not very weak. Palpus i-ather stout for a ?, truncate, 

 jiointed in side-view. Antenna andromorphic, strongly compressed, with long 

 fasciculated ciliae. Abdominal tergites not spinose except edges. Tibiae with 

 long scales distally ; spurs short, not spinose. Underside of body bright rufous, 

 costal margin of forewing, and the hindwing below, also rufons ; tip of abdomen 

 grey. A large snbbasal patch on forewing above, the stigma, a patch near apex, 

 another near hinder angle, and on hindwing a transverse patcli near anal angle, of 

 a jiecnliar grey-olive colour. The lines on the forewing above not very distinct, one 

 at base of M'-, the second quite indistinct between M- and M', the third just beyond 

 base of M^ ; the fourth on disc, dentate at the veins ; on the underside there are two 

 large yellow patches on the disc of the forewing between R' and M'. Hindwing, 

 below, with a dentate line just be3'ond cell, another two-thirds the way to outer 

 margin ; R- far below centre of cell, D- very oblii|ne, three times as long as D^, this 

 cipial to D'. Ti[) of abdomen ashy white. 



I[(th. Kangwe, Ogowe R. 



One ? in coll. Dr. Holland, here figured. 



207. Polyptychus falcatus spec. nov. (PI. X. f. 12, ?). 



? . Head small ; tongue short and weak. Joint of palpus open. Spurs of 

 mid- and hindtiliiae spinose ; hindtibia as long as tarsal segments 1 and 2, with 

 brush of long scales between the two pairs of spurs. Antenna heavily ciliated, 

 strongly compressed and grooved. Forewing strongly jiroduced at apex, which is 

 acute, outer margin slightly dentate at R-, evenly sinuate between api^x and R- ; 

 hindwing dentate, especially at posterior veins ; D- of hindwing very oblique, twice 

 as long as D', this as long as W. Abdominal tergites spinose all over, without 

 large nnderscales. 



Body, abovr, pale grey, abdomen with some black dispersed scall'^^ ; underside 

 huffish ; mid- and hindtibiae with a white dot at base on upperside. 



Wings, (ibote, sprinkled over with single black scales. Forewing pale grey, 



crossed by blackish brown lines ; a thin line at costal margin near base, followed 

 behind cell by two rather heavy dots, three antemedian lines, curving costad, oblique 

 and almost straight from cell to internal margin, the first 2 mm. proximal of M-, the 

 second at base of W, and the third 2 mm. beyond M-, the interspace between lines 

 2 and 3 filled up by blackish scaling, which forms together with the lines a band 

 that is narrowest behind ; a vestige of a blackish stigma ; three, almost jiarallel, 

 discal lines, rather close together, the middle one at juncture of SC^ and SC', the 

 intersiiaces more or less blackish, the band thus formed broadest at R', measuring 

 here 5 mm., while at M'- the band is only 21 mm. broad, slightly curving costad in 

 front, feebly concave behind ; a dentate postdiscal line, nearly parallel to the discal 



