524 Colonel C. Swinhoe on the Gcometridee of 



1 $, Madagascar. 

 The generic name seems to have been suggested by 

 Westwood and described by Duncan. 



Genus Coptopteryx, Holland, Ent. News, 1893, p. 174. 

 COPTOPTERYX BRUNNEA. 



Azelinopsis hrunnea, Warr., I.e., iv, p. 115, $ (1897). 

 Neuropolodes fuhata, Warr., 1. c, viii, p. 19, $ (1901). 



1 $, Pt. Lokko, Sierra Leone. 1 $, Asaba, W. Africa. 



The types, a male from Asaba and female from Sierra 

 Leone, are in coll. Rothschild ; the hyaline lunule at the 

 end of the cell is of a very peculiarly twisted nature in the 

 hind-wings, and this is represented in both sexes, together 

 with all the colour markiugs, but the female has no hyaline 

 lunules visible on the fore-wings. 



Coptopteryx homochroa. 



Coptopteryx homochroa, Holland, Ent. News, 1893, p. 175, 

 pi. 9, f. 19. 



1 $, Ogove River {Holland). 



The type, a male, is also from the same locality, and is 

 in coll. Holland. 



Coptopteryx nigraria, nov. 



$ . Palpi, frons, head, and fore-part of thorax pinkish-red, rest of 

 the body and the wings above dark purplish-brown, striated evenly 

 with purple ; the apex of fore-wing is not produced, the excavation 

 below the middle of the outer margin is deep and makes the upper 

 part look square-shaped ; there is a blackish suffused patch at the 

 excavation, a suffused shade on the lower middle of the wing, and on 

 the medial portion of the hind- wing ; there are no other markings 

 visible ; the anal tip is pinkish-red, and on the under-side the legs, 

 body, and wings are of the same colour, pale and uniform in shade ; 

 there is a large pink patch at apex of fore-wings, pinkish suffusion on 

 outer margin of hind- wings, and the whole of both wings is evenly 

 striated with brown. 



Expanse of wings liV inches. 



Hah. Port Lokko, Sierra Leone {Penny). 



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