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  Sir 
  G. 
  F. 
  Hanipson 
  on 
  new 
  

  

  brown, 
  an 
  indistinct 
  diffused 
  curved 
  postmedial 
  line^ 
  and 
  

   terminal 
  series 
  of 
  black 
  striie. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  N, 
  Nigeria^ 
  Zungeru 
  [Macfie), 
  1 
  c? 
  type. 
  Exp. 
  

   20 
  mm. 
  

  

  Sash 
  otiisifikju. 
  

   6494 
  a. 
  Characoma 
  stictiyrapta, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  ? 
  . 
  Head 
  and 
  thorax 
  grey 
  mixed 
  with 
  brown 
  ; 
  palpi 
  with 
  

   the 
  second 
  joint 
  black 
  behind; 
  antennije 
  blackish; 
  tegulse 
  

   blackish 
  towards 
  tips, 
  the 
  patagia 
  with 
  minute 
  black 
  spot 
  at 
  

   base; 
  forelegs 
  suffused 
  with 
  brown, 
  the 
  tarsi 
  with 
  whitish 
  

   rings; 
  abdomen 
  whitish 
  tinged 
  with 
  brown. 
  Fore 
  wing 
  

   grey 
  tinged 
  with 
  red-brown 
  and 
  irrorated 
  with 
  black 
  ; 
  a 
  

   curved 
  subbasal 
  black 
  striga 
  from 
  costa 
  and 
  spot 
  in 
  and 
  

   below 
  the 
  cell 
  ; 
  an 
  obliquely 
  curved 
  antemedial 
  series 
  of 
  

   four 
  small 
  black 
  spots 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  spot 
  beyond 
  it 
  in 
  sub- 
  

   median 
  fold 
  ; 
  a 
  small 
  black 
  discoidal 
  spot 
  ; 
  a 
  ])ostmedial 
  

   series 
  of 
  nine 
  small 
  black 
  spots, 
  excurved 
  from 
  below 
  costa 
  

   to 
  vein 
  4, 
  then 
  incuived, 
  a 
  blackish 
  shade 
  beyond 
  it 
  on 
  

   costal 
  area 
  ; 
  an 
  interrupted 
  maculate 
  black 
  suhterminal 
  

   line, 
  excurved 
  below 
  vein 
  7 
  and 
  at 
  middle 
  ; 
  a 
  terminal 
  series 
  

   of 
  minute 
  black 
  spots. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  whitish 
  suffused 
  with 
  

   reddish 
  brown. 
  Underside 
  of 
  fore 
  wing 
  fuscous 
  brown; 
  

   hind 
  wing 
  pale 
  brown, 
  the 
  termen 
  darker. 
  

  

  Ab. 
  1. 
  B'ore 
  wing 
  with 
  rounded 
  medial 
  black 
  patch 
  in 
  

   snbmedian 
  interspace. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Gold 
  Coast, 
  Aburi 
  [Armstronrj), 
  3 
  ? 
  type 
  ; 
  Natal, 
  

   Maritzburg 
  [Berensburg) 
  , 
  1 
  ? 
  . 
  Exji. 
  26 
  mm. 
  

  

  Larva. 
  Feeds 
  in 
  the 
  pods 
  of 
  Kola 
  and 
  Cacao 
  and 
  forms 
  a 
  

   cocoon 
  of 
  white 
  silk 
  dorsally 
  angled 
  in 
  front. 
  

  

  6568. 
  Giaura 
  leucopaso, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  (J 
  . 
  Head 
  and 
  thorax 
  white 
  irrorated 
  with 
  some 
  biown 
  and 
  

   black 
  scaks 
  ; 
  palpi 
  with 
  the 
  second 
  and 
  third 
  joints 
  blackish 
  

   towards 
  base; 
  abdomen 
  red-brown 
  with 
  the 
  crests 
  white, 
  the 
  

   extremity 
  grey 
  ; 
  the 
  ventral 
  surface 
  white. 
  Fore 
  wing 
  white 
  

   irrorated 
  with 
  black 
  to 
  middle 
  of 
  costa 
  and 
  inner 
  margin 
  

   beyond 
  middle, 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  wing 
  grey-white 
  irroiatcd 
  with 
  

   red-brown 
  ; 
  a 
  brown 
  and 
  blackish 
  patch 
  on 
  basal 
  part 
  of 
  

   costa 
  ; 
  antemedial 
  line 
  fine, 
  black, 
  sinuous, 
  angled 
  inwards 
  

   in 
  cell; 
  a 
  spot 
  formed 
  of 
  brown 
  and 
  black 
  scales 
  in 
  middle 
  

   of 
  cell 
  and 
  a 
  diffused 
  patch 
  of 
  red-brown 
  scales 
  below 
  middle 
  

   of 
  cell 
  ; 
  medial 
  line 
  double, 
  the 
  inner 
  line 
  indistinct 
  and 
  

   interrupted, 
  the 
  outer 
  black, 
  waved, 
  and 
  somewhat 
  oblique, 
  

   another 
  oblique, 
  waved, 
  black 
  line 
  from 
  just 
  beyond 
  it 
  on 
  

  

  