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*1678S. Maenas avola. (Plato LV1I. fig. 25.) 

 Spiloisoma avola, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 190 (1908). 



$. Head ami thorax white faintly tinged with brown; palpi 

 blackish; antennae black except at base; some yellow behind tin; 

 eves and on front of pectus ; fore tibiae, the extremities of mid and 

 hind tibiae, and the tarsi above fuscous; abdomen orange-yellow, 

 the base and ventral surface whitish. Fore wing white with a 

 faint brownish tinge; an erect antemedial band formed by six 

 brown spots ; a small brown spot at upper angle of cell with 

 another above it on eosta ; an oblique series of rather elongate 

 brown spots from costa before apex to vein 4, followed by an 

 obliquely incurved series of smaller spots to inner margin near the 

 antemedial band, the spots between veins 4 and 2 obolescent. 

 Hind wing white. 



Rob. Br, N. Guinea, Avola {Pratt), type f 2 in Coll. 

 Be thune- Baker. Mxp. 5(3 millim. 



1679 a. Maenas buryi. 



Diacrisia buryi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 126, pi. 11, f. 19 (1910). 



d . Head yellow, white behind ; palpi black fringed with yellow 

 below; antennae black; thorax white, the tegulae edged with 

 yellow; pectus in front and base of legs yellow, the fore coxae and 

 femora with black patches, the fore and mid tibiae and tarsi black 

 above, the hind tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 yellow with the 1st two segments, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 white, dorsal and lateral series of black spots. Fore wing white, 

 the costal edge yellow ; a black antemedial line interrupted at the 

 veins, excurved to median nervure, then slightly incurved; a tine 

 black postmedial line, interrupted from above vein G to above vein 2 

 and slightly incurved on inner area. Hind wing semih valine white 

 with black discoidal point. 



Hub. Gold Coast, Gambaga (Bun/), type f d" in Coll. Roth- 

 schild ; N. Nigeria, Zungeru (Macfie), 1 J , Minna {Macfie), 1 J . 

 Exp. 36 millim. 



*1679 b. Manas affinis. (Plate LVII. fig. 26.) 



Diacrisia njjinix. Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 127 (1910). 



cS . Head and thorax white, the tegulae edged with yellow ; palpi 

 black at sides towards tips; irons with some yellow above; antenna' 

 black, the basal joint yellow; fore coxae and the femora above 

 yellow, the tibiae and tarsi black; abdomen orange-yellow, the base, 

 extremity, and ventral surface white, dorsal and lateral black spots 

 on medial segments. Fore wing white, semihyaline except the 

 marginal areas; antemedial black points at costa, below median 

 nervure,. and above vein 1 ; a medial black point on costa ; two 

 postmedial black points on costal area and points above and below 



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