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area in the costal cell immediately above Rs ; other areas in 

 the ends of cells Cu and Is/ A ; beyond the cord in cells 

 2nd /?! to R 5 ; a small spot in the end of cell ft-, ; outer two- 

 thirds of cell Mi largely pale ; a large rounded spot near 

 the end of cell Cu x ; tiny white spots before the arculus, at 

 the end of cell 2nd M. 2 and near the base; of cell M 3 ; veins 

 dark brown. Venation : Rs short, less than R.> ; petiole of 

 cell Mi very short, but little longer than m ; basal deflection 

 of Cu l a little before mid-length of cell 1st M 2 . 



Abdominal tergites yellowish orange, variegated with 

 reddish, the margins einnamon-brown ; pleural membrane 

 dark brown ; sternites orange-yellow ; terminal segments 

 dark brown. Ovipositor with the valves dark brown, the 

 tergal valves broadly tipped with horn-colour, slightly up- 

 curved at the tips ; sternal valves straight, slender. 



Hub. Southern Nigeria. 



Holotype, ? , Akwete, May 13, 1910 (J. J. Simpson). 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Lecteria laticincta may be readily distinguished from the 

 closely allied L.triacanthos, Alexander, and L.simpsoni, so. n., 

 by the broader bands on the wing and the entire absence of 

 small spots and dots in the hyaline interspaces. 



Lecteria simpsoni, sp. n. 



Similar to L. triacanthos, Alexander, but the wings longer 

 and narrower, with darker interrupted cross-bands and com- 

 paratively few dots in the interspaces. 



Male. — Length 14'5 mm. ; wing 13'5 mm., its greatest 

 width 3*2 mm. 



Closely related to L. triacanthos, from which it differs as 

 follows : — 



Legs with the pale bands on the femora and tibiae more 

 yellow than white (tarsi broken). Wings narrower, the 

 large brown spots on the wings much darker, this effect 

 produced by the much broader dark margins that surround 

 the spots, the pale centres often indistinct ; these large spots 

 are broken up so that they appear as interrupted bands ; the 

 spots occur at the origin of Rs ; fork of Rs narrowly con- 

 nected with a large seam along the cord ; a large, somewhat 

 isolated spot at r and the fork of /» 2 +3 ; another spot at the 

 tip of R 2 ; the small dots on the wing are relatively few in 

 number, much fewer than in L. triacanthos : thus in cell C 

 there are but six or seven small scattered spots ; none in 

 cell R proximad of the spot at the origin of Rs ; only two 



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