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  SIi" 
  G. 
  F. 
  Hampson 
  on 
  new 
  

  

  mixed 
  with 
  brown, 
  the 
  tarsi 
  blackish 
  ringed 
  with 
  ochreotis 
  ; 
  

   abdomen 
  dark 
  brown, 
  the 
  ventral 
  surface 
  irrorated 
  with 
  

   grey. 
  Fore 
  wing 
  purplish 
  grey, 
  the 
  terminal 
  area 
  dark 
  

   brown 
  ; 
  a 
  slight 
  dark 
  subbasal 
  line 
  from 
  costa 
  to 
  snbmedian 
  

   fold 
  ; 
  antemedial 
  line 
  double, 
  dark, 
  sinuous, 
  defined 
  on 
  inner 
  

   side 
  by 
  pinkish 
  towards 
  costa 
  ; 
  a 
  sinuous 
  dark 
  medial 
  line 
  

   excurved 
  at 
  median 
  nervure 
  and 
  with 
  band 
  of 
  dark 
  suffusion 
  

   beyond 
  it; 
  a 
  pinkish 
  wbite 
  discoidal 
  striga; 
  postmedial 
  line 
  

   double, 
  dark 
  filled 
  in 
  with 
  grey 
  and 
  defined 
  on 
  outer 
  side 
  by 
  

   grey, 
  slightly 
  incurved 
  at 
  discal 
  and 
  submedian 
  folds, 
  some 
  

   pale 
  points 
  beyond 
  it 
  on 
  costa 
  ; 
  a 
  slight 
  greyish 
  subterininal 
  

   line 
  someAvhat 
  exciu'ved 
  below 
  vein 
  7 
  and 
  at 
  middle 
  ; 
  a 
  

   blackish 
  terminal 
  line 
  defined 
  on 
  inner 
  side 
  by 
  slight 
  whitish 
  

   lunulps. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  dark 
  brown 
  with 
  a 
  cupreous 
  gloss; 
  the 
  

   underside 
  slightly 
  irrorated 
  with 
  grey. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  N. 
  Nigeria, 
  Minna 
  {Macfie), 
  2 
  ^ 
  typ^j, 
  Zungeru, 
  

   1 
  cJ 
  • 
  Exj). 
  18 
  mm. 
  

  

  5760 
  «. 
  Lithacodia 
  mesomela, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  Head 
  and 
  thorax 
  grey-wliite 
  mixed 
  with 
  rufous 
  and 
  some 
  

   blackish 
  ; 
  auteiniae 
  and 
  palpi 
  blackish 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  grey- 
  white 
  

   mixed 
  with 
  dark 
  brown, 
  the 
  crest 
  on 
  third 
  segment 
  blackish. 
  

   Fore 
  "wing 
  with 
  the 
  ba-al 
  area 
  and 
  the 
  costal 
  area 
  and 
  cell 
  to 
  

   the 
  reniforra 
  whitish 
  suffused 
  with 
  rufous 
  ; 
  a 
  subbasal 
  black 
  

   point 
  in 
  the 
  cell 
  ; 
  antemedial 
  line 
  slight, 
  double, 
  incurved 
  in 
  

   cell, 
  oblique 
  and 
  filled 
  in 
  with 
  white 
  below 
  the 
  cell 
  ; 
  the 
  

   inner 
  half 
  of 
  medial 
  area 
  black-brown 
  ; 
  a 
  black 
  jDoint 
  in 
  

   middle 
  of 
  cell 
  ; 
  reniform 
  elliptical 
  Avith 
  white 
  annulus 
  defined 
  

   by 
  black, 
  its 
  centre 
  Avhite 
  above, 
  fuscous 
  below, 
  and 
  in- 
  

   completely 
  defined 
  by 
  black 
  ; 
  ])ostmedial 
  line 
  double 
  and 
  

   filled 
  in 
  with 
  white, 
  excurved 
  below 
  costa. 
  then 
  fo/ming 
  the 
  

   outer 
  edge 
  of 
  reniform, 
  incurved 
  and 
  waved 
  below 
  it; 
  the 
  

   terminal 
  area 
  whitish 
  suffused 
  with 
  brown; 
  subterminal 
  line 
  

   whitish 
  defined 
  on 
  inner 
  side 
  irregularly 
  by 
  black, 
  dentate 
  at 
  

   veins 
  7, 
  6, 
  4, 
  3, 
  2 
  and 
  incurved 
  at 
  discal 
  fold 
  ; 
  an 
  oblique 
  

   blackish 
  mark 
  from 
  apex 
  ; 
  a 
  punctiform 
  blackisli 
  terminal 
  

   line 
  ; 
  cilia 
  with 
  dark 
  lines 
  at 
  middle 
  and 
  tips. 
  Hind 
  wing- 
  

   reddish 
  brown 
  ; 
  a 
  fine 
  dark 
  terminal 
  line 
  ; 
  cilia 
  whitish 
  with 
  

   a 
  dark 
  line 
  through 
  them; 
  the 
  underside 
  Avhitish 
  tinged 
  

   with 
  ochreous 
  and 
  irrorated 
  with 
  fuscous 
  ; 
  a 
  blackish 
  dis- 
  

   coidal 
  spot, 
  minutely 
  waved 
  postmedial 
  line, 
  indistinct 
  waved 
  

   subteiminal 
  line, 
  and 
  terminal 
  seiies 
  of 
  black 
  strife. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Br. 
  E. 
  Africa, 
  jNairobi 
  (Anderson), 
  1 
  (^, 
  4 
  $ 
  tyj)e. 
  

   E.vj)., 
  J 
  18, 
  ? 
  20 
  mm. 
  

  

  