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then with small black lunules on its inner edge, incurved at 

 discal fold, incurved and waved below vein 4, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line double, blackish, 

 Avaved, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; a diffused 

 dark mark at middle of terminal area and a series of black 

 striee just before termen defined on inner side by white. 

 Hind wing cupreous red-brown, the cilia with a whitish line 

 at base and whitish tips ; the underside Avhitish irrorated 

 with brown, a small brown discoidal lunule and crenulate 

 postmt dial line incurved below vein 3. 



Hah. S. Nigeria, Ilesha {Humphrey), 1 S type. Exp. 

 26 mm. 



3437 b. Eriopiis nana, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some ochreous ; 

 pectus and legs with more ochreous, the tibiae and tarsi with 

 dark brown and ochreous bands ; abdomen fuscous brown 

 with pale rings, the crests ochreous and rufous, the ventral 

 surface whitish. Fore wing dark red-brown mixed with 

 some greyish ochreous; subbasal line double filled in with 

 whitish, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double 

 filled in with whitish, sinuous, a white spot before it above 

 vein 1 ; orbicular an oblique pale bar with black point in 

 centre ; reniform pale with black striga in centre, constricted 

 at middle; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, 

 bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below 

 vein 4, slightly excurved at vein 1, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; traces of a waved whitish subterminal line with 

 a series of rather lunulate dark patches before it, an oblique 

 white dash beyond it above vein 4 ; a terminal series of small 

 black spots defined on inner side slightly by white. Hind 

 wing dark cupreous brown ; cilia with a fine whitish line at 

 base and Avhitish tips ; the nnderside grey-white irrorated 

 and suffused with brown, a brown discoidal lunule, curved 

 postmedial line slightly defined on outer side by whitish, 

 and terminal series of slight dark lunules. 



Hab. S. NiGEKiA, Ilesha {Humphrey), 1 c? type. Exp. 

 22 mm. 



3438 a. Eriopus cyanopera, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax purplish red-brown mixed with 

 some ochreous ; palpi in front and lower part of frons 

 whitish ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown, the 

 dorsal crests dark brown and white at tips, the ventral surface 

 purplish red-brown irrorated with ochreous. Fore wing 



