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a patcli (if modified frictioii-scaK's ; tliese large, ekingate-ovate, pointed, luesially 

 carinate ; a single row of friction-scales at the internal edge of the eighth tergite ; 

 harpe (PI. XXXIV. f. 1) with a short but strong ventral hook {pvd), which stands 

 in connection with a dorsal process {pd) ; this process somewhat club-shaped, beset 

 with tnbercles ; it corresponds to the dorso-basal jirocess found in the species of 

 Clanis. Penis-sheath (PI. XXX. f. 28) armed before the end with a single strong 

 tooth which projects laterad as in P. cirescens, bnt is much shorter. 



?. Vaginal armature (PI. XVII. f. 18) not strongly chitinised, no processes, 

 two transverse folds before the orifice, postvaginal plate (prp) mesially concave, 

 rounded-triangular. 



Early stages not known. 



JIab. West Africa : Sierra Leone to Cameroons, probably farther south. 



In the Tring Museum 3 c?cf, 1 ? from: Sierra Leone; Cape Coast Castle, 

 Gold Coast : Warri, Niger Coast, June 1896 (Dr. Roth). 



The width of the interspace between the antemedian and the discal lines is 

 not quite constant. 



220. Polyptychus foliaceus spec. nov. 



?. Tongue extremely short. Antenna with very slightly prolonged seriated 

 ciliae. Joint of palpus open. Spurs very short, not spinose. Distal margin of 

 forewing entire, convex, hinder angle obtusely rounded, not projecting anad, inner 

 margin very shallowly sinuate distally ; lower angle of cell of hindwing almost 90°. 



Body and wings pinkish clay-colour. Upperaide of forewing darker than 



hindwing, no basal spot : a blackish or brown line across ape.x of cell continued 

 as a feeble shadow towards inner margin, which it reaches before hinder angle, here 

 a little more accentuated than on the disc ; another feeble line midway between 

 cell and tip of wing from costa to R\ meeting at this vein an oblique apical line, 

 equally feeble, these two lines limiting a triangular costal area which is slightly 



darker than the disc; fringe brown. Hindwing paler towards base and abdominal 



margin, distal margin slightly dentate at SM-, a brown marginal shade at anal angle. 



Undi'rmde. Forewing paler than above : basal half with a slight yellowish 



tint ; an oblique, feeble, subapical line reaching costal margin before the tip of 



the wing and bordering a greyish space. Hindwing : two feeble discal lines, 



the proximal one straight, crossing R' 2^ mm. from cell, external one curved like 

 the outer margin. 



Not dissected. 



Early stages and c? not known. 



Length of forewing : ? , 32 — 35 mm. 



Hab. Misahiihe, Togo, 31. iii. 1894, 1 ? {typr), two others from the same 

 jilace, April (E. Baumann) ; Kete Kratje, AV. Africa (Zeck) : all in the Berlin 

 Museum. 



According to Baumann (on the label) not rare in tiie forest near Agowe, but 

 very shy. It is generally found sitting on the fallen-ofl' calyces of Masanga smithi. 



221. Polyptychus contraria (PI. I. f lo. \\, Si). 



*(J. Aiulriiisa amtraria Walker, List Lei>. Hcl. B. M. vii. p. 1735. n. 1 (18.56) (Natal ;— Mus. Brit.). 

 *? . Basiaiia siibmargiiudis id., I.e. xxxi. p. 37 (1864) (S. Leone ; — Mus. Brit.). 



c? ? . An individually and sexually variable insect, of which the West African 

 form has received no less than five names. 



