( 599 ) 



maruiu, the first ratliov more distinct: a small l)n>wn apieai iiulfinoon, foliowoil 

 bv an elongate triangular marginal patch, pointed behind, proximally bordered by 

 a white, feebly tlentatc line. On underside the pale postdiscal area of the forewing 

 does not extend backwards beyond M', it includes jiroximully two brown dentate 

 lines the angles of which point basad, and distally another more distinctly zigzag 

 line, the angles n])on the veins pointing distad ; this line is separated from the 

 brown border of the wing, while in muscosa it is merged together with it. 



(?. Tenth tergite (PI. XLIV. f. 34) slender, not strongly curved ; steruite 

 nearly as long as the tergite, narrow, pointed (PI. XLIV. f. '^5, ventral aspect)- 

 Harpe (PI. IL. f. 27) short, ending in a sharp, evenly but not strongly curved 

 hook. Penis-sheath without a patch of teeth on inner surface. 



Ifdij. ^likindani, German East Africa, January to Jlay InOT (Ueimer), 1 S, 

 tlipe ; Lolodorf, Cameroons (Conradt), 1 ? in coll. Olierthiir. 



540. Antinephele maculifera. 



Aiiliiu'plH'le imcuUfini Holland, r/v(/(.s'. An,,i: Ent. Sor. xvi. p. 09. n. .33. t. 3. f. 2 (J) (1889) 

 (Benita) ; Karsch. Ent. Xwhr. xvii. p. 294. n. 4 (1891) (Cameroons) : Kirby, GU. Lpjk HpI. i. 

 p. iUl'. I). 2 (1892). 



S ? . Dark brown mesothoracic tegula witli a pale spot in front ; abdominal 

 tergites ochraceous, first with a dark brown mesial patch. A large triangular basal 

 costal patch on forewing, two discal spots R' — M- preceded by a smaller spot, an 

 apical marginal halfmoon, and behind it a large marginal half-crescent dark brown. 

 Underside of jialpus and abdomen and middle of breast white, abdomen with 

 conspicuous mesial spots. 



Not dissected. 



Ilaf). West Africa. 



In the Tring Museum 1 ? from Lagos. 



CXLI. HYPAEDALIA.-Typns : insipiis. 

 Iliiiiaultrm Butler, Traii><. Ent. S'oc. Lond. p. 397 (1877) (type : »?.-vV/«/s). 



c?$. Genal process acute, about as iiigli ns pilifer. Palpus j)i'cnliar: scaling 

 of second segment cariniform or anguliform laterally at apex, apical surface 

 triangular, anterior (ventral) angle more or less projecting ; third segment long, 

 thin, scaled, close to the inner edge of the second segment. Scaling of head 

 raised in front and projecting forward, lateral scaling forming a heavy eye-brow, 

 a tuft at anterior lateral corner projecting forward upon palpus. Antenna filiform 

 in both sexes ; compressed also in ?, with short seriated basal eiliae ; end-segment 

 short as in A/iti/ii'jj/irle. Abdomen broad, jiatteited, s])ines weak, in several rows ; 

 (? with a broad and rounded, ? with a narrow, anal tuft. Hinder edge of merum 

 of midcoxa not carinate ; external row of spines of first foretarsal segment 

 irregularly doubled ; mid- and hindtarsus with comb of rather long but thin 

 spines. Forewing sinuate below apex ; hindwing strongly rounded-dilated costally, 

 tiie lobe widest in middle, qnite gradually narrowing to base and apex, SC^ and 

 R' on a short stalk, R- a little before centre of cell. 



S. Tenth segment of abdomen of the same type as in Aittinephelt'. Clasper 

 with a patch of numerous friction-scales, which are much smaller than in 



