ECTOLOPHA. 



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4579. Ectolopha viridescens. 

 Ectolopha viridescens, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 383 (1902). 



Head and thorax yellowish white with some red-brown on head, 

 dorsal edge of tegulse, and vertex of thorax ; patagia rufous and 

 green on dorsal edge ; abdomen yellowish white dorsally suffused 

 with rufous except at extremity. Fore wing pale yellow-green ; 

 subbasal line purple-grey, obliquely curved, from costa to median 

 nervure ; a purplish grey patch on middle of costa crossed by the 

 darker double antemedial, single medial, and double postmedial 

 lines; an irregularly conical yellowish white patch on middle of 

 inner margin, its inner and outer edges angled outwards on vein 1, 

 irrorated with rufous, defined by rufous and traversed by the rufous 

 postmedial line ; the antemedial and medial lines obsolete except 

 on the costal patch, the postmedial line oblique towards costa, 

 angled outwards on vein 6, oblique to vein 4, dentate to vein 2, 

 then incurved, with purple-grey patch before it beyond lower angle 



of cell ; a subterminal series of slight rufous points : cilia green 

 with fuscous lines at middle and tips. Hind wing greyish fuscous, 

 the inner area yellowish white ; cilia ochreous mixed with brown. 

 Underside of fore wing fuscous with the base and inner area, 

 yellowish white ; hind wing yellowish white, the terminal half 

 suffused with fuscous except on inner area. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial grey patch on costa almost 

 obsolete, some dentate whitish marks on subterminal line towards 

 costa. 



Bab. Br. E. Africa, Taveta (Rogers), 2 $, Kikuyu (Crawshay), 

 1 $ ; Uganda, Mulema (Doggett), 1 $ ; Mashonaland, Salisbury 

 (Marshall), 4 $ type ; Transvaal (Pead), 2 $ . Exp. 40 millim. 



4580. Ectolopha marginata, n. sp. (Plate CXLII. fig. 9.) 



Head red-brown ; thorax yellowish white tinged with green, the 

 base of tegulse and pro- and metathoracic crests red-brown ; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen ochreous suffused with red-brown. Fore wing 

 yellowish white tinged with pale green especially in submedian fold ; 

 the costal edge brown ; a minute brown point at upper angle of 

 cell; a terminal purple-brown band narrowing to a point at apex 

 and with slight double rufous somewhat sinuous line on its inner 



