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13. Pareclipsis ansorgeata spec. nov. 



Forewings : lawii-colonr, thickly dusted with black scales, especially aloug the 

 costa, which is striated with black ; basal line at one-sixth, very obscnre, curved ; 

 a slight blur ou discocelhilar marks the cell-spot ; outer Hue at two-thirds, curved 

 from 6 to L', marked only by black vein-spots ; submarginal lino very iLdistinet, 

 paler and lunulate, only marked beyond cell and on snbmediau fold, where it passes 

 through a blotch of black scales ; that beyond cell larger and touching hindmargin ; 

 marginal spots black ; fringe concolorous, with black scales at base. 



Jl/'/tf/u'/'nf/s : with distinct black antemedian line, followed by a dark shade on. 

 inner margin touching a diamond-shaped black cell-spot with white centre ; outer 

 line as in forewings ; submarginal line marked by lunules filled uj) with blackish 

 between veins T and 8, beyond cell, and ou submedian interspace, this last double ; 

 marginal spots and fringe as in forewings. 



Underside the same, but redder ; the speckling and markings stronger ; fore- 

 wings with distinct black cell-spot with shade below it. Head, thorax, abdomen, 

 and antennae like wings. ( 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



1 ? from Agberi, Niger, December 1901 (Dr. Ansorge). 



The hindmargin of both wings is rounded and deeply crenulate. Cell in both 

 wings quite short ; in forewings 6 is short-stalked with 7, 8, 9 ; 10 and 11 coincident 

 anastomose with 12. Superficially the insect is very much like the species of 

 Ocoelopho>-<( Warr., but there is no fovea, and in tlie hindwings 3, 4 and 0, 7 are not 

 stalked. 



14. Plegapteryx anomalus H.-S., Auss. Schm. figs. 4G2. 403. 



A c? example from Sierra Leone, though from colour and markings evidently 

 belonging to this species, differs from Herrich-Schaeffer's figure in not having the 

 two yellowish spots in the cell of forewings, but instead a blackish discal sjiot, 

 preceded by three short double vertical pale streaks across the cell ; on the under- 

 side, however, these streaks are represented by a yellowish patch with a few red 

 scales on it, preceded by a less distinct single patch ; it is probable, therefore, that 

 in some examples these yellow spots appear, as in Herrich-Schaeffer's figure, on the 

 upperside also. The marginal third of the wings above and a narrower area beneath 

 have a strong plumbeous lustre, developed into a blotch at anal angle of forewings 

 both above and below, and at apex of hindwings above. The underside of the 

 forewings is in the main deep red. 



15. Plegapteryx segmentata. 



Syndeicnhs segmentata Warr., Nov. Zoul. ix. p. 535. 



The generic name Syndetodes must sink, the type-species being manifestly 

 congeneric with P. anomalus H.-S. From that species it is distinguished by its 

 olive-greenish colouring instead of chestnut-red, by the yellow underside of both 

 wings, and by the white cheeks and base of antennae. A second example of this 

 insect has been received, like that of P. anomalus above recorded, from Sierra 

 Leone ; the type was from Warri. 



