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dentate line between it and outer margin, feeble, accentnated by dots upon the veins, 

 this line continued over forewing, where it is still more faint. 



S. Tenth tergite broad in basal half, then suddenly narrowed to a strong 

 pointed hook ; no sternite. Clasper peculiar : proximal half broad, apical half much 

 narrower, curved upwards, a deep sinus in the dorsal margin, the ventral and dorsal 

 margins of the proximal half and the ventral margin of distal half raised to form 

 ridges, the proximal ridges hairy. Harpe a long evenly-carved hook ; no friction- 

 scales. Penis-sheath without armature ; below the penis-sheath a short, horizontal, 

 pointed, conical process. 



?. Not dissected: ditiers from c? only in the subapical sjiot of the forewing 

 being larger. 



Early stages not known. 



JIad. West Africa : Senegal to fJameroons. 



In coll. Charles Oberthiir, 1 ? from Joliann Albrechts Hiiiie, Cameroons ; 

 2 c? c? from Misahiihe, Togo, 1. iv. Is94 (Baumann). From Sierra Leone in the Berlin 

 Musenm ; 2 c?c? from Cameroons and Senegal in coll. Staudinger ; 3 c?c? in the 

 Tring Museum from Agberi, Niger, 4. vii. I'.ml, 4. viii. I'.xH, 11. ix. 1001 (Dr. 

 \\\ J. Ansorge). 



2iifl. Polyptychus boisduvali. 



*TeiHiii>ra i7i<((?i(//(i.s;«.s-, Boisduval (nmi Fiihricius. 1787), Ny«r. Gni. Lfp. Hil. i. p. ■>%). u. 1. t. 11. 



f. 1 (1875) (Sierra Leone ;— coll. Charles Oberthiir) ; Butl., Trau^. Z«„l. S,„: Lnml. i.x. p. G:t2 



(1877). 

 PiAyptyihux rhitlamixluit, Kirby, Cut. Le.p. Het. i. p. 705. n. 2 (1892) (syn. partim). 

 Tcmiiijvti hinadiirali Aurivillius, Eitt. Tkhlcr. xviii. p. 152. sub n. 78 (18il7) (num. nov. loco rhaihiiu.). 



?. Tongue short and weak. Palpus small (?), joint open. Frons with a 

 tuft in front of the antenna. Antenna distinctly grooved, except distal segments, 

 with prolonged ciliae. Al)domen with weak spines all over the tergites. Spurs 

 not spinose, short, with long naked point, longer terminal spur of liiudtibia not 

 much longer than the tibia is broad. Distal margin of forewing irregularly dentate ; 

 iiindwing feebly dentate at the posterior veins, D- twice as long as Dl Vaginal 

 plate (PI. XVIII. f. 11) with a large, smooth, tuberculiform, antevaginal plate {acj)) 

 which is membi'anaceous in the middle with the edge more or less sinuate ; between 

 this plate (fivji) and the vaginal orifice ( 1') there is a smaller, convex, tuberculiform 

 piece of chitin ; postvaginal part of plate {pvp) very short. 



This species resembles i-hadamisttis of Fabricius somewhat in the pattern 

 ol' the forewing, but is quite distinct. 



Hah. West Africa : Sierra Leone and farther south. 



In several collections. One ? without locality in the Tring Museum ; this 

 specimen is aberrant in having the anteunal segments rounded, cheese-shaped. 



210. Polyptychus andosa (PI. IL f 9, <? ; 12, ?). 



*Piimcra andom Walker, Lint Lep. Het. B. .1/. viii. p. 159. n. 7 (1856) (Sierra Leone ;— Mus. Brit.). 

 Temnora aiuhma, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. Het. i. p. 291. n. 3 (1875) (S. Leone). 

 Polyptychus uiuIosk.i, Butler, 'J'nnis. Zaol. Sue. Limd. ix. p. 584. n. 5 (1877) (S. Leone). 

 Pseiidosmeritithiis anduxa, id., A?i)i. Man. ^- ^- C^)- ^- P- "t^S- S""' "• ^ (1882). 

 Pgeiidn.wieri?itl,m (?) aiido.ta, Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 703. n. 8 (1892) (S. Leone). 



S. Tongue and palpus as in coryndoni ; antenna (c?) much thinner, ventral 

 line even (in side-view). Spurs short, not spiny, longer one of midtibia only as 

 long as the tibia is broad. Abdominal tergites not spinose, excepting edges. D- 



