( 575 ) 



(^?. Eye-lashes uut deuse. External row of spines of foretarsus simple, 

 with scarcely any additional spines at and near the normal ones, which are 

 slightly prolonged ; njiperside of foretibia brown like the body, alidominal sternites 

 with a series of white dots towards each side, no dots at the lower edges of 

 the tergites. 



Body olivaceous drab lirowii, underside with a russet tint, palpus below 



somewhat paler, underside of tarsi pale buflf. Forewing, above, drab with 



greyish flush, a minute dii'ty white stigma, lines blackish olive ; a broad shadowy 

 band of this colour obliipiely across wing, its jiroximal edge rather well defined, 

 concave behind and ending at tip of SM-', distally the band gradually fades 

 away, with the jjale interspaces of the lines more or less distinct ; apex of winf 



acute, distal margin bisinuate, angulate at R-, fringe paler between veins. 



Hindwiug uniformly brown, lines vestigial in side-light, fringe butf, with brown 

 vein-ilots. 



Underside rnsset-olive, basal half of forewing blackish olive, disc more or less 

 walnut-brown, especially in ?, three discal lines on both wings, first of forewino- 

 indistinct, distal margin with brown Ijand, which is more distinct in ? than in rf . 



(J. Tenth tergite (PI. XLIV. f 40) feebly convex above, apex trnncate-sinuate ; 

 sternite obtusely acuminate. Friction-scales large, four in number ; harpe (PI. L. 

 f. G) ending in a broad compressed process. Penis-sheath (PI. LVI. f. 2) with 

 the edge incrassate, the right edge proximally prolonged into a free, pointed jirocess, 

 tlic left edge dentate, without free process. Scent-tuft at base of abdomen pink. 



I lab. Sierra Leone ; probably more widely distributed over the West Coast 

 of Africa. 



In the Triug Museum c? J, 8 ? ¥ from Sierra Leone. 



oii4. Temnora plagiata (PI. VII. f. 20, i ; l'1, ?). 



I.djiliiirrm iliiiiiiui Boisduval, in Deleg., V'lij. Afr. Aiix/i: p. 594 (1847) (Natal ; iiom. iiml. ; liaoo. 



spec, teste Boisd. IBTa). 

 *Tnnnora jilarjitil'i Walker, LUt Lqi. Ins. IS. .1/. viii. p. lii.j. u. 2 (1856) (Xata) ;— Mus. lirit.). 

 *l'aiia<:ni nmfum id., /..-. viii. p. IGl. n. 10 (1K.',(!) (Xatal ;— Mus. Brit.). 

 OryUni rwifnxitm, Boisduval, Sj/cr. Gin. L<[>. Hit. i. p. 304. n. 3 (1875) (Xatal). 

 *A'iile(hin diranus id., I.r. i. p. ,307. n. 4 (1875) (Caft'aria ; Zululaud ; — coll. Charles Obertliiir). 

 Loplwrn plaijiahi, Butler, Trans. Zoid. Sot'. Loml. ix. p. 537. n. 1 (1877) (Xatal; = mn/nsa). 

 iMjihiirtm pliirjiiilH, Kirby, Oil. Leji. lid. i. p. 04 1. n. 4 (18'J2) (Xatal). 

 *I.iiplii,run inamlatum Rothschild, Nnv. Zoiii.. i. p. 71 (18',)4) (Xat,al ;— Mus. Tring). 



(? ? . Palpi obtuse. Antenna of S heavy. Eye-lashes not dense. IIind(U' 

 edge (if mideoxal merum not cariuiform. Uiiperside of tibiae like breast. Under- 

 side of abdomen with two series of brown dots. Forewing, above : the pair 



of autemedian lines strongly curved, conspicuous, more or less filled in with 

 brown ; a brown [^stigma divided by a pale line ; a large costal disial ])atch 

 sliarplyjlcfiiied, stopi)ing at U', (jnadrangular, a smaller subapical costal patcli, 

 a Miljniarv'inal spot W — M' ; distal margin bisinuate, strongly convex in middle, 



iVeljIy denticulate, apex more or less acuminate. Hindwing: olivaceous cinnamon 



rufous, or. almost 'mummy brown, a more or less distinct brown jwstdiscal line, 

 distal mai'gin also brown; fringe white, with brown vein-dots. 



I'it(ln:v(li: nearly like npjiersiih' of hindwing, rather more grey, third discal 

 line dentate on both wings, and distal marginal band olivaceous brown, liul not 

 i'onH|iicuous ; basal half of forewing rather more olivaceous than disc. 



4. Abdominal scent-tuft chiyish. Tenth tergite (PL XLIV. f 4'Jj slender. 



