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very fine, composed of regularly curved brown lines interrupted with white points at 

 the tips of the nervules, beyond which the fringes are lighter, becoming a little darker 

 toward their tips near the anal angle, but not near the upper angle, where they appear 

 to be concolorous. 



The foregoing description is based upon two male specimens, each 

 of which has an expanse of 45 mm., and five female specimens, which 

 expand from 43 to 48 mm., and which are contained in the Carnegie 

 Museum. The male type was taken at Lolodorf, Cameroon, December 

 17, 1914, by J. A. Reis; the female allotj^pe was taken at Banza Manteka, 

 Belgian Congo, by A. L. Bain. Of the paratypes, three were taken at 

 Lolodorf, two bj- J. A. Reis and one by H. L. Weber, at various dates; 

 the fourth taken at Duala, Cameroon, on June 13, 1913, by A. I. Good. 



Of this ineect there are in the Lang-Chapin Collection five ragged 

 and rubbed specimens taken at Medje in July and August, and I have 

 several eciuall}' poor and defective specimens in my own collection com- 

 ing from the region of the Ogove River, which I took with me to the 

 British Museum in 1905 for determination, and one of which l)ears the 

 mark "not in B. M." I have long known this insect b}' defective speci- 

 mens, unfit for description, but it is only comparatively recently that 

 we received from Cameroon a number of beautifully perfect speci- 

 mens which have enabled me to prepare the foregoing diagnosis of the 

 species, which I refer without hesitation to the genus Pseudogonitis 

 Hampson, with which, according to the figures and description given by 

 Hampson, it agrees perfectly. The insect is evidently exceedingly vari- 

 able, the variation being due to the difference in the intensity of the 

 bands and markings, which may become almost obsolete, or may become 

 very deep and pronounced in color, or melt into each other. There is, 

 however, more or less uniformity shown in the markings on the undei' 

 side of the wings. 



Acontiinae 

 Metaleptina Holland 

 (541) 1. Metaleptina digramma ( Hampson) 



Westermannia digramma Hampsox, 190.5, Ann. JNIag. Nat. Hist., (7) XVI, p. 592. 

 Metaleptina digramma Hampson, 1912, Cat. Lep., Phal., XI, p. 623, fig. 



One specimen taken at Bolengi, July 20, 1909. 



