( 575 ) 



c??. Eye-laslies not deu.se. External row of spines of foretarsus simple, 

 with scarcely any additional spines at and near the normal ones, wiiich are 

 slightly prolonged : njiperside of foretibia brown like the body, abdominal sternites 

 with a series of white dots toward.s each side, no dots at the lower edges of 

 the tergites. 



Body olivaceous drab brown, underside with a russet tint, palpus below 



somewhat paler, underside of tarsi pale buif. Forewing, above, drab with 



greyish flush, a minute dirty white stigma, lines blackish olive ; a broad shadowy 

 band of this colour obli(piely across wing, its i)roximal edge rather well defined, 

 concave behind and ending at i\\) of SM-, distally the band gradually fades 

 away, with the pale interspaces of the lines more or less distinct ; apex of wing 



acute, distal margin bisinuate, angulate at K-, fringe paler between veins. 



Hindwing luiiformly brown, lines vestigial in side-light, fringe buff, with l)rown 

 vein-dots. 



IJnder.siilc russet-olive, basal half of forewing blackish olive, disc more or less 

 walnut-brown, especially in ? , three discal lines on both wings, first of forewing 

 indistinct, distal margin with brown band, which is more distinct in ? than in 6. 



5. Tenth tergite (PL XLIV. f. 40) feebly convex above, apex truncate-sinuate ; 

 sternite obtusely acuminate. Friction-scales large, four in number ; harpe (PI. L. 

 f. fi) ending in a broad compressed process. Penis-sheath (PI. LVl. f. "J) witli 

 the edge incrassatc, the right edge proximally prolonged into a free, j)oiutcd process, 

 the left edge dentate, without free process. Scent-tuft at base of abdomen pink. 



I lab. tSierra Ijcouc ; probably more widely distributed over the West (Joast. 

 of Africa. 



In tlie Triiig Museum S<S,>i ? ? from Sierra Leone. 



.jn4. Temnora plagiata (PI. VII. f. 2o, 6 ; 21, ?). 



Luphnruu <lirwiiis Boisduval, in Deleg., 1'-!/- -U'l'- Auslr. p. ,094 (1847) (Natal ; num. iiw/. ; hauc. 

 ' spec, teste Boisd. 187.")). 



! *rannont iilatjiatii Walker, List Lep. Ins. II. .1/. viii. p. lOo. u. 2 (1856) (Xatal ;— Mus. Brit.). 

 I *Pamcru nmfusa id., I.e. viii. p. 161. n. 10 (18r)6) (Xatal ;— Mus. Brit.). 

 I OiijUm cunfiisum, Boisduval, .s><v. Gin. Lep. Hit. i. p. 304. n. 3 (1875) (Xatal). 



*Asi)leihm diraims id., I.r. i. p. 307. n. 4 (1875) (Caffaria ; Zululand ; — ooll. Charles Obertliur). 

 ' Lojihiini jilaijiaiii, Butler, Trans. Zoul. Sor. Loud. ix. p. 537. n. 1 (1877) (Xatal ; = oniftisa). 



Lophuroiipltriiiihi, Kirby, Cat. Lep. llet. i. p. 641. n. 4 (1802) (Xatal). 

 j *Lnph,iron nuicidaUim Rothschild, Nov. Zooi,. i. p. 71 (18ii4) (Xatal ;— Mus. Tring). 



\ c? ? . Palpi obtuse. Antenna of S heavy. Eye-lashes not dense. Hinder 

 I edge of midcoxal merum not cariuiform. Upperside of tibiae like breast. Under- 

 side of abdomen with two series of brown dots. Forewing, above : the jiair 



of antemedian lines strongly curved, conspicuous, more or less filled in with 

 brown ; a brown stigma divided by a pale line ; a large costal discal jiatch 

 sharply defined, sto])ping at R^, (piadrangular, a smaller subapical costal patch, 

 a submargiual spot 11^ — M' ; distal margin bisinuate, strongly convex in midtlle, 



feebly denticulate, apex more or less acuminate. Hindwing : olivaceous cinnamon 



rufous, or almost mummy brown, a more or less distinct brown postdiscal line, 

 distal margin also brown; fringe white, with brown vein-dots. 



r/i(/cr.s/</<; nearly like upperside of hindwing, rather more grey, tiiird discal 

 line dentate on both wings, and distal marginal band olivaceous brown, but not 

 conspicuous : basal half of forewing rather more olivaceous than disc. 



6. Abdominal scent-tuft clayish. Tenth tergite (PI. XLIV. f. 42) slender. 



