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Genus VIII. GNOPHODES. 



Gnophodes E. Douhleday. 



Body slender ; head large ; eyes naked ; fore wings strongly angulated below the apex, dilated on the inner margin, 



and bearing a large oval tuft of silky hairs. 

 Head large, finely hairy. 



Eyes large, very prominent, naked. 



Antennce very slender ; terminating in a long, very slender, gradually formed club, subobtuse at the tip. 



Labial Palpi short, thick, compressed, nearly erect, the tip nearly level with the top of the eyes, very thickly 

 squamose in front of the middle joint ; back of this joint with a tuft of hairs applied to the face ; terminal 

 joint very small and slender. 

 Thorax short, robust, convex. 



Fore Wings rather large and broad. Fore margin strongly arched ; apex truncated. Apical margin strongly 

 angulated below the tip at the extremity of the lower discoidal vein, below whicli it is very deeply emarginate 

 and scalloped. Inner margin very much dilated in the males. The space between the median and submedian 

 veins, near the middle of the length of the wing, occupied by a large oval tuft of silky hairs on the upper side 

 of the wing. Veins arranged as in Cyllo. 



Hind Wings large, subtriangularly ovate. The costal margin nearly straight. Outer margin scalloped ; its 

 middle produced into a short tail at the extremity of the third branch of the median vein ; tlie space within 

 the extremity of the first branch cut into a deep scallop. Veins arranged as in Cyllo. 



Fore Legs of the male very minute, scarcely hairy. The tarsal portion very short, exarticulate, not brush-like. 



Four Hind Legs very slender, moderately elongate, almost destitute of fine spines on the under side. 

 Abdomen slender. 



This is another genus proposed by E. Doubleclay in Plate LXI. of this work, of which no characters have been given, and which 

 appears to ine to ap])roxiraate as closely to Cyllo as Zophoessa does to Debis ; the dilated hind margin of the fore wings, and the 

 oval patch of fine silky hairs in the middle of the wing towards the hinder margin, being its chief distinctions. The under surface of 

 the wings of the typical species of the genus (of which I have only seen males) is thickly irrorated with black, brown, and bulf ; some 

 more distinct dai-k brown clouds a})pearing in the middle of the fore wings, and some blackish spots in the hind wings, which have 

 a rather broad pale subcostal streak, and several small whitish spots in the ordinary place of the ocelli. 



There is another species (Gn. ? Morpena JV.) from Ashanti and Congo, in the British Museum, rather larger than Gn. Parmeno, 

 the male of which has the fore wings also dilated along the hinder margin, but it does not bear any ])atch of silken hairs ; the hind 

 wings, on the contrary, have a large patch of silky white scales on the upper side, covered by the dilated hind margin of the wings. 



GNOPHODES. 



I. Gno. Parmeno Doubleday MS.; Doubl. Westw. &; Hewits. Gen. , 2. Gno. ? Morpena Wcstw. 



Diiirn. Le]/. yi\. 6l. f. 2. '' Confjo, Aslianti. B. M. 



Sierra Leone. B. M. I| 



Genus IX. HiETERA. 



H.a5TERA Fdbricius, Syst. Gloss. 

 Satyrus Sect. C. 1). God'. Enc. M. ix. 



CiTHiERIAS, PlERIS, and ANTIRRHiEA Hubn. 



HjEtera and Antirrh.(EA Boisduval MS., E. Doubleday. 



Body slender ; wings elongate, often diaphanous ; hind pair often angulated, or tailed. 

 Head moderately broad, very finely hairy. 



Eyes large, prominent, naked. 



Labial Palpi large, very compressed, ascending obliquely higher than the level of tlie top of the eyes, and 



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