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there is some variation, — in one female the dark Hne on the upper side of the second- 

 daries being succeeded outwardly by a band of pale sagittate spots forming a sub- 

 marginal series. Expanse, male, ^2-48 mm. ; female, 38-50 mm. 



The foregoing description is based upon a single defective specimen 

 brought home hy the Lang-Chapin ExpecUtion, and four males and six 

 females in the Holland Collection, collected by the late Dr. A. C. Good 

 at Kang\^e. The insect has long been standing in the cabinet awaiting 

 description, and I avail myself of the present opportunity to give it a 

 name. The type is a well-preserved male specimen contained in the 

 Holland Collection, taken at Kangve, on the Ogove River. The para- 

 type is a somewhat defective specimen, taken at Medje on April 6, 1910. 

 and is in The American Museum of Natural History. 



(601) 5. Deinypena obscura, new species 



Plate XIV, Figure 11, cf 

 cf . General color of the upper surface pale wood-brown, the under side lighter; the 

 fore wings near the base clouded with darker brown; two small black spots succeed 

 each other in the cell and are followed by an obscure reniform, which is lost in a dark 

 brown oblique median shade which runs from the costa to the inner margin and is 

 succeeded externally by a finely waved somewhat irregular denticulate dark band; 

 the apex and the tornus are clouded with dark brown ; the outer margin is defined by a 

 very fine brown line within which on the interspaces run fine transverse brown lines, 

 darker than the rest of the wing. The fringes are dark brown, not checkered. The 

 dark transverse brown shade of the fore wing is continued across the cell of the 

 secondaries, and beyond toward the anal angle are a few fine black denticulate lines; 

 the termen is darker than the rest of the wing, especially near the upper angle; on 

 the lower side the costal area of the wing is lighter than the rest of the wing; there is a 

 minute black dot in the middle of the cell and at the end of the cell a whitish point 

 accentuated before and behind by black scales, followed by a faint postmedian dark 

 denticulate line; near the apex the fore wing is somewhat lighter than the rest of the 

 wing and is marked with minute stria^. The hind wing is somewhat paler than the 

 fore wing, is crossed by an obscure median band running from about the middle of 

 the costa toward the inner margin, succeeded by a fine denticulate postmedian hne 

 succeeded by a submarginal light line defined externally and internally by deeper 

 brown lines; the termen is shghtly darker than the rest of the wing. Expanse, 

 45-48 mm. 



The type was taken at Medje, July 6, 1910, and is in The American 

 Museum of Natural History. The para type was taken at Medje, on July 

 17, and is in the Holland Collection in the Carnegie Museum. 



The foregoing enumeration of the Noctuids brought home by the 

 America n Museum Congo Expedition takes no account of a small residuum 

 consisting of eight or nine specimens thoroughly denuded of scales, lacking 

 antenna and legs, and otherwise imperfect. Any attempt to classify 

 them would be useless. They represent at least six additional species, to 



