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otherwise dull purplish-fuscons, posterior margin itself whitish ; hiudwing less 

 iiTorated, but with similar shades. 



Mount Goliath, January — February 1911 (A. S. Meek). Type and three other 

 c? (J in coll. Rothschild. 



The wings are less produced apically than in the type species, scarcely longer 

 than in the South American genus Leptoctenopgis, to which {e.g. to L. subpurpurea 

 Warr.) the new species bears a curious superficial resemblauce. In the forewing SC'^ 

 anastomoses with SC!% as is normal in this group ; in the hindwing SO- and R' are 

 well stalked. Evidently variable ; one specimen is of a lilacine colour, only 

 weakly mixed with fulvous, the postmedian line rather faint, the distal wedge- 

 marks large and very black. 



8. Gerusia polydaedala spec. nov. 



(?, 47 mm. ; ? , 56 mm. Face brown, narrowly whitish above and beneath. 

 Palpus varied olivaceous grey, red and fulvous. Vertex and antennal shaft fleshy 

 grey ; collar and extreme front of thorax dark olivaceous grey, somewhat mixed 

 with brown. Thorax and abdomen above pinkish grey, with a slight violaceous 

 tone and with a few dark atoms ; thorax beneath very pale olivaceous grey ; 

 abdomen in ? very robust, beneath fulvous somewhat mixed with ferruginous. 

 Forecoxa, inner side of foreferaur, middle- and hindfemora and tibiae fulvous, 

 spotted and blotched with red. 



Wings in c? with termen irregularly crenulate, especially the hindwing, which 

 projects about R' and M' and bears the strongest tooth at R^ ; in ? almost entire- 

 margined, the forewing (as in cJ) with slight curved excision behind apex, then 

 strongly gibbous, hindwing only very weakly undulate. Forewing with SU' 

 anastomosing with G (at a point in c?, rather strongly in ?); hiudwing with C 

 in S normal, in ¥ closely appresaed to SO, but not anastomosing. 



Coloration exceedingly variegated. Forewing with the prevailing tone fleshy- 



or somewhat violet-grey, with some dark dusting (especially in the tj), basally and 

 distally somewhat paler than in the intermediate area, in the ? (especially distally) 

 slightly more yellowish-tinged ; a small dark discal spot ; antemedian dark line 

 indented on SO and the submedian fold, excurved between, oblique outwards to 

 posterior margin (in ? nearly obsolete, excepting the posterior end) ; two thick, 

 ill-defined red-brown lines from costa, the first (median) starting at two-fifths, 

 running very obliquely to posterior angle of cell, here bent at a right-angle, but 

 becoming almost obsolete, vaguely traceable again as a blotch at posterior margin : 

 postmedian starting similarly ob!i([uely to R', where it forms an acute angle, 

 becomes fine, black, and denticnlate, and runs about parallel with termen as far 

 as submedian fold, finally again brown and outbent to posterior margin ; in the 

 ? only, an oblique line, black at first, then brown, runs from apex and closely 

 accompanies the postmedian distally ; apical region somewhat dark-clouded, a white 

 subajncal spot between SC'' and R', in the S extended to costa near apex as 

 an interrupted white line, in the ? merely accompanied anteriorly by a minute 



white dot ; twin black subtermiual spots on either side of R-. lliiu/iving still 



more brightly variegated ; prevailing tone in the cell ochreous, somewhat marked 

 with reddish, a small blotch of the same on R- submarginally, and a paler one 

 near tornns ; between cell and SM- whitish, coarsely spotted with olive-grey ; 

 inner margin in ? reddish, in c? whiter, in both marked with fuscous ; a small 

 dark cell-spot and two thick transverse lines of reddish-grey or olive-grey at equal 



