SCHAUSIA. LOPHOXOTIDIA. (U7 



152. Schausia leona. 

 /Ecjocera leona, Schaus, Lep. S. Leone, p. 20, pi. i. 1". 1 (1893). 



Deep chocolate-brown ; palpi fringed with fulvous ; coxa; with 

 fulvous hair. Fore wing with very oblique diamond-shaped silvery- 

 white patch from eosta to middle of snbmedian fold ; a larg(> luiiulate 

 spot beyond the cell between veins S and 3 ; a purplish silvery- 

 brown spot on middle of inner margin, an oblique line across end "of 

 cell to near torn us, where it is dilated into a large patch : a discoidal 

 bar, a subterminal series oC lunulale spots, and a terminal band. 



Fig. 267. — Schausia leona, S- \- 



Hind wing yellowish Avhite, with a broad black-brown terminal 

 band with an irregularly sinuous inner edge, running to costa at 

 middle where it is contiiiued to the base as a wavy streak : the 

 terraen tinged with chocolate. 



Hah. Sierra Leone {Morgan), 1 6, (Clements)! d : Niger R., 

 Sapele (Sampson), 1 $ . Krp., S -^8, ? 52 millim. 



Genus LOPHONOTIDIA, nov. 



Type, //.' nociurnu. 



Proboscis fully (IcTeloped ; palpi uiitiirncd, reaching vertex of bead, clothed 

 witli long liair, tJie ;5rd joint Hiiuutc, hairy ; tVous with large pointed trinngulai- 

 prominence; antenna^ inoderately dilated towards extremity ; head and thorax 

 clothed with long hair; tibi:f iVinged with long hair, the spurs moderate: 

 abdomen with large dorsal crests on 1st three segments. Fore wing with vein-; 

 ;3 and 5 from close to angle ot' cell; from upper angle; 9 I'rom 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to fori.n the areole ; the termen crenulate. Hind wing with vein 

 2 from before angle of cell ; .S, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellidars ; 6, 7 from iijiper angle : the termen sinuous and slightly excised 

 between veins 4 and (i ; male with lateral tufts at base of abdomen. 



151). Loplionotidia nocturna, n. sp. 



(f . Head and thorax dark red-brown, mixed with white hair; 

 antenine irrorated with blue ; pectus in front and bc-low tlio wings, 

 and fore coxa; orange ; fore legs irrorated with white and with the 

 fringe on til)ia' mixed witli while : the tufts at base of abdomen 

 rufciis ; abdomen black, the dorsal tufts red-brown, tlie anal tutt 

 mixed witli white. Fore wing deep chocolate red-brown ; an ante- 



