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whitish hand before it and brownish suffusion beyond it ; post- 

 medial line whitish, oblique from costa to discal fold, then in- 

 wardly oblique to submedian fold and bent outwards to inner 

 margin, some brownish suffusion beyond it on costal area ; the 



Fig. Q>$.—Hypercalymnia metaxantha, $ . \. 



terminal area rufous with an ill- defined oblique whitish bar across 

 apex ; a terminal series of slight brownish points ; cilia brownish 

 white. Hind wing pale yellow. 



Hub. Congo, Katanga Distr. (Neave), 1 3 type. Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus MUSOTHYMA. 

 Musothyma, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1897. p. 375... 



Type. 

 cyanastis- 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi slender, upturned to above vertex of bead ; 

 frons witb rounded prominence witb small corneous plate below it ; eyes 

 smooth ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; thorax smoothly scaled ; abdomen 

 with dorsal crests on 1st three segments, the crest on 3rd segment large, the 

 male with large lateral tufts at base from edge of stigmata. Fore wing with 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8, 9 stalked ; 

 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomos- 

 ing with the cell near base only. 



*4542. Musothyma cyanastis. 



Musothyma. cyanastis, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 375. 



<5 . Head and tegula3 pale ochreous, the 3rd joint of palpi and 

 frons above black ; thorax olive-brown ; abdomen olive-brown, 

 whitish below. Fore wing brownish ochreous thickly irrorated 



Fig. 70. — Musothyma cyanastis, rf ■ }• 



with large black scales to the postmedial line ; a slate-coloured 

 fascia on inner margin, bent upwards on inner side of postmedial 

 line to vein 2 where it is met by an obscure diffused oblique 

 blackish band from middle of costa; postmedial line whitish, 



