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nearly in the middle of the thigh ; four hind legs fulvous ; tibiae 

 paler, with a dusky broad ring near the base; ungues short, broad, 

 terminated by four or five sharp teeth ; pulvillus broad ; wings 

 narrow ; principal veins fulvous ; stigma long, orange brown ; 

 fore wings suffused at the base, and all the wings with an apical 

 cloud of fulvous brown ; all the wings with from nine to eleven 

 oblique discoidal cells dependent on the ordinary radial sectors, 

 the veinlets dividing the cells slightly curved. 



40. M. tropica. Westw. Brunneo-picea, flavo-varia, prothorace 

 subelongato, lineis duabus obliquis flavis ; scutellis margi- 

 neque postico segmentorum abdominalium tenuissime flavis, 

 femoribus anticis intus et extus brunneis, margine tenui 

 pallido, antennis gracilibus, 29-articulatis. Tab. 18, fig. 2. 



Long. corp. lin. 4J — 5| ; expans. alar, antic, lin. 9 — 11. 



Habitat Africa tropicali occidentali, Gambia. Mus. Westwood. 



Allied to M. Cora, Newman. Head bright yellow ; clypeus and 

 a broad bar across the place of insertion of the antennae black ; 

 crown of the head with a transverse brunneous fascia ; palpi 

 fulvous; antennae slender, about 2\ lines longer than the head, 

 28 or 29-jointed, fulvous, basal joint yellow, moderate sized, 

 2nd small, 3rd slightly longer than the fourth, which, with the 

 following, is short and transverse ; prothorax pitchy brown, 

 rather long and slender, dilated in front, the fore margin not wider 

 than the hind part of the eyes, with two tubercles separating the 

 dilated from the cylindrical part, which is but moderately trans- 

 versely rugose ; the tubercles are yellow, and from each of them 

 extends backwards a slender oblique yellow line ; meso- and meta- 

 thorax pitchy brown, with the scutella yellow ; abdomen pitchy 

 brown, the anterior segments slenderly margined with yellow, the 

 hinder segments yellow above, sides pitchy brown ; fore legs dark 

 chesnut, upper and lower edge of the femur paler; tibiae with a 

 dark longitudinal line on each side ; tarsi terminated by a very 

 minute single claw ; four hind legs fulvous-buff, femora and base 

 of the tibiae dusky; ungues moderately long, curved, armed with 

 several teeth at the tips ; wings nearly colourless, principal veins 

 brown, stigma long dark red, tips of the wing with a minute brown 

 cloud, disc with eleven oblique cells dependent on the ordinary 

 radial sectors, the veinlets separating the cells being considerably 

 curved, fore wings also slightly stained with brown at the base. 



41. M. areolaris. Westw. Fusca, flavo-varia, facie nigra, flavo- 

 marginata ; prothorace elongato angustato, parum transverse 



