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PSYCHE. 



[June-Sept. 1894. 



apical portion of tlie outer margin is like- 

 wise clouded with dark brown. There is a 

 minute discal spot on the primaries and 

 both wings are crossed by incomplete, but 

 quite distinct, transvere median, transverse 

 limbal, and geminate submarginal brown 

 lines. Expanse, 40 mm. Habitat Valley of 

 the Ogove. 



76. T. discipnncta, sp. nov. i- Allied to 

 T. {Azazia) ritbi-icatis, Walk., and T. 

 (^Remigia) subjecta. Walk., but totally dis- 

 tinct. The head, collar, and upper side of 

 the thorax are fawn. The upper side of the 

 abdomen is paler fawn. The lower side of 

 the thorax [and abdomen are dark fawn. 

 The legs concolorous with the tibiae densely 

 covered with hairs; the tarsi dark brown 

 ringed with white. The prevalent color of 

 the upper surface of the primaries and 

 secondaries is fawn. Both wings have a 

 minute dark brown spot in the middle of 

 the cell. The primaries are crossed by fine 

 irregularly curved basal, sub-basal, median, 

 limbal, and marginal transverse lines. At 

 the end of the cell, in the primaries, is a 

 very heavy and conspicuous black reni- 

 forin spot. The transverse median brown 

 line is enlarged at its costal extremity, form- 

 ing a distinct subtriangular costal spot, 

 which in some specimens fuses with the reni- 

 form. The margin is indicated by minute 

 transverse linear dashes. The fringes are 

 concolorous. The transverse lines on the 

 primaries are contiimed upon the seconda- 

 ries, the fringes of which are slightly paler 

 than on the upper side, tinged on their 

 inner margins with ochraceous. Both have 

 a small discal dot. In the case of the 

 primaries this dot is in some specimens 

 reduplicated. The apex of the primaries is 

 marked with a blackish shade punctuated 

 by a deep black subapical spot. Both 

 wings are crossed by curved transverse 

 median and transverse limbal lines, and 

 both have the marginal area marked with a 

 few obscure brownish dots. 



? . The female closely resembles the male. 

 It is worthy of observation that on the under 

 side the dark discal spots and the dark apical 

 markings of the primaries are sometimes 

 replaced by whitish spots, a color variation, 

 which is not unusual in some genera of 

 noctuids. Expanse, 32 to 37 mm. Habitat 

 Valley of the Ogove. 



EucAPNODEs, gen. nov. 



Palpi long, porrect, densely clothed with 

 hairs; first joint long, extending beyond the 

 front; second joint two-thirds the length of 

 the first; third joint short, lanceolate, the 

 hairs at its outer extremity widely diverging, 

 giving it a fan-like shape. The antennae at 

 the base are greatly swollen, the joints at 

 their insertion forming a short peduncle 

 heavily clothed with hairs, projecting from 

 the vertex above the palpi, in a conspicuous 

 manner. The remaining three-fourths of 

 the antennae in the male are very finely 

 ciliate. The primaries are subtriangular 

 with the costa near its insertion incrassated 

 on the lower side; convex before the apex. 

 The inner margin is straight; the outer mar- 

 gin evenly rounded. The secondaries are 

 suboval with the costa slightly convex, the 

 outer and inner margin rounded, the inner 

 margin slightly excised at the anal angle. 

 The legs have the femora and tibiae very 

 heavily clothed with long and dense hair. 

 The tibiae of the last pair are armed with 

 long double, terminal and median spurs. 

 The tarsi are short and naked. 



I erect this genus for the reception of Cap- 

 nodes sex-maciilata. Walk. This species is 

 generically very distinct from Capnodes, to 

 which Walker assigned it, and may be at 

 once distin^'uished by the very peculiar for- 

 mation of the palpi and antennae. 



Capnodes, Guen. 



78. C. (?) /laemaio'issa, sp. nov. $. 

 Front dark brown with a minute white spot 



