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the latter angled at vein 6; a darker median sliade, also bent below costa, <hen 

 parallel and near to first line ; snbmargiual line i)a!o, regnlarly zigzag ; space 

 between it and onter line filled up with grey, forming a fascia ; a grey marginal 

 cloud beyond cell ; marginal spots black ; fringe sandy ; cell-spot brown. 



Hi?it//n'iii/s: like forewings, but without basal line of dots ; hindmargin 

 creunlate. 



Underside with ground-colour paler, whitish ; markings darker, fuscous 

 brown ; forewings speckled with brown ; middle line and submarginal fascia 

 distinct, brown, the latter connected with the brown marginal cloud ; outer and 

 marginal lines of spots ; middle line crossing cell-spot on forewings, preceding it 

 on hiudwings. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings. 



Expanse of wings : c? 30 mm. ; ? 3.5 mm. 



2 £?<?, 1 ?, from Agberi, Niger, July— September, and 1 cJ from Ase, Niger, 

 August 1901 (Dr. Ansorge). 



Named in honour of the captor. 



Type: <?, September. 



Subfamily FIDONIINAE. 



Neostega gen. no v. 



Forewings: triangular; costa straight; apex rounded; hindmargin oblique, 

 faintly curved below. 



Iliiuiwinys : broad, triangular ; hindmargin rounded ; both angles well 

 marked. Antennae of S simple, subserrnlate, pubescent ; palpi porrect, short ; 

 tongue and frenulum present ; legs short and stout ; hindtibiae thickened, with 

 four spurs. 



Neumtion : forewings, cell less than half as long as wing ; discocellular 

 vertical ; first median nervule at five-eighths, second at seven-eighths ; lower radial 

 from a little above middle of discocellular, upper from upper angle of cell ; 7, 10, 

 8, 9 stalked from before end of cell, 10 anastomosing at a jmint with 12 ; 11 absent 

 (coincident with Iti?): hiudwings, costal shortly anastomosing near base with 

 subcostal ; veins 3 and 7 before angles of cell ; first median at three-fourths ; no 

 radial. No fovea in either wing. 



Type : Neostega Jlaviguttata spec. nov. 



11. Neostega flaviguttata spec. nov. 



Forewings : dark purplish grey with darker striations ; costa spotted with 

 yellowish towards apex ; two indistinct darker waved lines at about one-third 

 and two-thirds, each accompanied by a dull yellow blotch from costa as far as 

 vein 4, and sliglitly yellow marked at inner margin ; fringe dark with slight pale 

 marks beyond veins. 



Jlimlwinqs : with an obscure central line, marked with yellow below costa 

 and at inner margin. 



Underside similar, the yellow markings indistinctly shown. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen concolorous with wings. 



Expanse of wings : 19 mm. 



1 $ from Oguta, Niger, July 1001 {\)x. Ansorge). 



