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L^flELiA Stephens 



(613) 1. Lselia lignicolor Holland 

 Loelia lignicolor Holland, 1893, Psyche, VI. p. 431, PI. x, fig. 17. 



One specimen taken "near Nouvelle Anvers, VII, 23, 1909." 

 The insect, upon comparison with the type, is found to agree perfectly. 



(614) 2. Lselia hildoides, new specie.s 



cT. Eyes deep black ; palpi brown edged below with white; antennae with cul- 

 men white, setae testaceous; frons brown, edged on either side, near the eyes, with a 

 narrow whitish line; tegulae rosy fawn, edged inwardly with brown, so as to cause the 

 brown shade of the upper side of the head to appear to be produced backwardly as a 

 short dark shade; patagia and upper side of thorax rosy fawn; upper side of abdomen 

 pale fawn; pectus whitish with a few brownish hairs below; lower side of thorax and 

 abdomen whitish; legs white, except that the anterior pair are inwardly dark brown. 

 The fore wings on the ui)per side are prevalently rosy fawn ; at the base there are two or 

 three very minute dark punctulations; a dark brown transverse 

 diagonal line, defined outwardly by white, runs from the costa a 

 little before its middle and reaches the inner margin a little more 

 than the fourth of its length before the base ; the position of the reni- 

 f orm is indicated by a few light scales, and there is a short dark bar 

 at the end of the cell, defined outwardly by a narrow whitish line. 

 , '^ \^ „ From a point a little before the apex there runs a dark rather 



Lmia hildoides tio\\a.nd . ,. ,. . . , . 



, 1 heavy postmedian Ime, termmatmg upon the inner margm at 



its middle, and sharply defined outwardly by a narrow band 

 of pure white. A regularly outwardly curved submarginal line, composed of dark spots 

 defined externally with white, runs from the same point where the postmedian line 

 originates upon the costa, parallel to the outer margin, and reaches the inner margin 

 about three-fourths of its length from the base. The hind wings on the upper side 

 are pale, almost white, creamy at the base, deepening into very pale fawn externally, 

 with minute dark punctulations at the end of the veins on the margins. On the under 

 side both wings are creamy white, the fore wing towards the apex and the hind wing 

 on the costal half marked by minute pale stria? and punctulations. The postmedian 

 line on the fore wing reappears faintly on the lower side and on the same side of the 

 secondaries there is an imperfect transverse narrow submarginal line, running from 

 the costa as far as vein 4. There is also a faint reproduction of the bar with which 

 the end of the cell of the ])rimaries is closed on the upper side, this being represented 

 on the lower side by a few dark scales. 



9 . The female does not differ, except in its sexual characteristics, from the 

 male, the size being greater, however, and the wings broader. The markings both of 

 the upper and lower sides are very much the same. Expanse, d", 22-35 mm.; 9, 

 35-40 nun. 



The foregoing description is founded upon fourteen males in the 

 collection in the Carnegie Museum, and three females, from the French 

 Congo and Cameroon, including the female specimen brought back l\y 

 the American Museum Congo Expedition from Medje. 



