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Hindwings bright shining ferruginous at the base, shading 
outwardly to cupreous ; cilia purplish fuscous at the apex, shading 
to tawny grey and pale ferruginous towards the base ; hind lobe 
very slender, with a cupreous black spatule af its apex. Abdomen 
dark ferruginous, shading to tawny fuscous at the sides. Legs, the 
anterior and middle pairs pale ferreginous with a rich ferruginous. 
fan-shaped tuft towards the end of the tibiz ; posterior pair thickly 
clothed to the tarsal joints with dark ferruginous scales, the tibial 
tufts banded at their base with reddish ferruginous, on their outer 
half bright ochreous. 
Type. &. Mus. Wlsm. 
Hab. Yoruba—Idanre (Sir G. Carter, 1894) ; French 
Congo—Kanewé, Ogowé River (Rev. A. C. Good). 
Auucita, L. 
Tyee. Phalena (Alucita) pentadactyla, L. (Poda, 1761). 
atucita, L. (nec Meyr.) = acipritia, Hb. = aciprius, 
Z. = *pTEROPHORUS (Geofir.) Meyr. 
Alucita similalis, Wkr. 
n. syn. = malacensis, Z. 
Aciptilus similalis, Wkr., Cat. Lep. Ins. B.M., XXX., 
949 (1864)!; Aciptilia malacensis, Z. Hor. Soc. Ent- 
Ross., XILIL., 485-6 (1877). 
Hab. Arrica—Sierra Leone, 10, I. (Dr. Clements) ; 
French Congo—Kangwé, Ogowé River (Rev. A. C. 
Good) ; Asta—Malacca? ; Bornec—Sarawak! ; Celebes— 
Macassar, 500 ft. (W. M. Doherty). 
This species has not hitherto been recorded from 
Africa. 
Alucita candidalis, Wkr. 
Aciptilus candidalis, Wkr., Cat. Lep. Ins. B.M., XXX., 
948 (1864)!; Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, 282?. 
Hab. Sierra Leone’ ?; French Congo—Kanegwé, 
Ogowé River (Rev. A. CU. Good); Natal-— Spring 
Vale, LI? 
