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is apparent]}' an organ of friction (the specimen conld not be further examined, as 

 dissection was not allowed). 



Hal). West Africa : Lolodorf, f'ameroons (Couradt). 



One ? (ti/pt') in coll. CUias. ()lic;rthur. 



Barorabi and Interior (Prenss), 1 c? and I ? in coll. Staudinger : this species? 



tii)6. Polyptychus enodia (PI. I. f. 'i, ?)• 



*Dai<iinia fiinilin Holland, Trans. Amer. Eid. Soc. xvi. p. 60. n. 24. t. 4. f. 3 (18S9) (Kangwe :— coll. 

 HolLind) ; Kirby, Gd. Lep. Hel. i. p. 702. n. T, (1892) (W. Africa). 



? . Tongne short, bnt not very weak. Palpns rather stont for a ? , truncate, 

 pointed in side-view. Antenna andromorphic, strongly compressed, with long 

 fascienlated ciliae. Abdominal tergites not spinose except edges. Tibiae with 

 long scales distally ; spurs short, not spinose. Underside of body bright rufous, 

 costal margin of forewing, and the hindwing below, also rufous ; tip of abdomen 

 grey. A large subbasal i)atch on forewing above, the stigma, a patch near apex, 

 another near hinder angle, and on hindwing a transverse patch near anal angle, of 

 a ])eculiar grey-olive colour. The lines on the forewing above not very distinct, one 

 at base of M-, the second finite indistinct between M" and M', the third just beyond 

 base of M' ; the fourth on disc, dentate at the veins ; on the underside there are two 

 large yellow patches on the disc of the forewing between R' and M-. Hindwing, 

 below, with a dentate line just beyond cell, another two-thirds the way to outer 

 margin ; U- far below centre of cell, ])- very obliipie, three times as long as D', this 

 equal to D'. Tip of abdomen ashy white. 



Hah. Kangwe, Ogow(5 R. 



One ? in coll. Dr. Holland, here figured. 



207. Polyptychus falcatus spec. nov. (PI. X. f. 12, ?). 



?. Head small : tongue short and weak. Joint of palpns 0{)en. Spurs of 

 mid- and hindtibiae spinost^ ; hindtibia as long as tarsal segments 1 and 2, with 

 brush of long scales between the two pairs of spurs. Antenna heavily ciliated, 

 strongly compressed and grooved. Forewing strongly produced at apex, which is 

 acute, outer margin slightly dentate at R-, evenly sinuate between apex and R^ ; 

 hindwing dentate, especially at posterior veins ; D- of hindwing very obliipie, twice 

 as long as D^, this as long as U'. Abdominal tergites spinose all over, without 

 large underscales. 



Body, (ibocr, ])ale grey, abdomen witli some black dispersed scales ; underside 

 bnffish ; mid- and hindtibiae with a white dot at base on upperside. 



Wings, (ihovc, sprinkled over with single black scales. Forewing ]iale grey, 



crossed by blackish brown lines ; a thin line at costal margin near base, followed 

 behind cell by two rather heavy dots, three antemedian lines, curving costad, oblique 

 and almost straiglit from cell to internal margin, the first 2 mm. proximal of M-, the 

 Mcond at base of M'-', and the third 2 mm. Iieyond M-, the interspace between lines 

 2 and :{ filled up by blackish scaling, which forms together with tlie lines a band 

 that is narrowest behind; a vestige of a blackish stigma; three, almost parallel, 

 dincul lines, rather close together, the middle one at juncture of SC and Sd"', the 

 iDterH]>aces more or less blackish, the band thus formed broadest at R', measuring 

 here 5 mm., while at M- the band is only 2J mm. broad, slightly curving costad in 

 front, feebly concave behind ; a dentate postdiscal line, nearly parallel to the discal 



