61b 



AGAEISTIDiE. 



luediul bisiiiuate olive-green line with silvery-blue scales on its 

 inner side; a silvery-blue spot with olive round it in middle of cell, 

 a bar across end of cell, and a discoidal bar with olive before and 

 bevond it ; a waved olive line from vein 8 beyond angle of cell to 



Fig. 268. — Lophonotidia nocturna, (^ \. 



inner margin; an obsolescent white band irrorated with olive and 

 red-brown from costa beyond middle to tornus ; the terminal area 

 irrorated with grey, and with some subterminal olive marks and a 

 .streak below vein 5. Hind wiug black, with large white patch 

 clothed with black hair and tinged with olive from subcostal 

 iiervure to middle of inner margm ; cilia chequered white and 

 black. 



Hah. l^R. C. Africa, Nyasa Land {Himom), 1 6 type. Exp. 52 

 millim. 



Genus COPIDRYAS. 

 Copidryas, Grote, Can. Ent. yiii. p. 99 (1876). 



Type. 



glovcri. 



Proboscis fully deyeloped ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with hair, the 

 3rd joint moderate, roughly scaled ; fruus with flattened, rather hollowed-out 

 tridentate corneous process ; antennae almost simple, slightly dilated beyond 

 middle; tibiix-. fringed with long hair: abdomen with dorsal crests on basal 

 segments. Fore wing with veins 3 and .5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell : ^ obsolescent from middle 

 of diseoccllulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



154. Copidryas gloveri. 



Eusc-hirropterus gloveri, Grote & Eob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 185 

 (1868); Eiley, Insect Life, i. p. 1U4, f.20; Kivby,Cat. Het. p. 39. 



Head and thorax clothed with dark brown and grey hair, the 

 extremity of 2nd joint of palpi and sides of frons white ; tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen orange, the dorsal crests and anal 

 tuft above black. Fore wing dark chocolate-brown strongly 

 irrorated with grey ; a white fascia from base of costa in and below 

 cell, its upper edge indented by the orbicular and reniform stigmata, 

 which have dark edges and leaden centres, then bent up to costa 

 before apex and with crenulate outer edge ; an oblique silvery- 



