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N0CTUID2E. 



especially on terminal area; a fine waved brown terminal line; 

 cilia ochreous Avhite with a few brown scales ; the underside 

 oohreous white slightly irrorated with brown, the costal area 

 tinged with red before apex, a slight discoidal stigma and terminal 

 series of points. 



Hah. Bechtjanaland, N'Gami (Lugard), 1 $ type- Exp. 

 30 millim. 



Genus THYATIRODES, nov. 



Type, T. godalma. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd 

 moderate, porrect; frons with large rounded prominence with short elliptical 

 corneous process at middle with raised edges and corneous plate below it ; 

 eyes large, round; antennae of male laminate and almost simple; thorax 

 clothed with scales and hair mixed and with broad dorsal ridge of erectscales; 

 tibia? moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base 

 hut without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved, crenulate ; reins 3 and 5 iroin near angle of cell; (> from upper 

 angle; 5) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 'A, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



3894. Thyatirodes godalma. 

 Thyatira godalma, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 152 (1904). 



J . Head and thorax whitish mixed with pale rufous and on 

 metathorax with greyish fuscous ; palpi and sides of frons dark 

 brown; pectus and legs rufous, the throat dark brown, the tarsi 

 dark brown with pale rings ; abdomen rufous, the extremity and 

 ventral surface tinged with dark brown. Fore wing whitish ; the 

 basal area dark brown, its outer edge nearly erect from costa to 

 vein 1, then excurved; a large diffused rounded red-brown patch 



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Fig. 



■ Thyatirodes godalma, <$ . 



on medial area from cell to above inner margin, conjoined to another 

 beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3 ; a small dark spot on middle 

 of costa ; the outer edge of the pale medial area excurved from 

 costa to vein 3 near termen, then incurved ; the terminal area 

 red-brown with some whitish points on costa, an oblique whitish 

 stibterminal line from costa to vein 6 and waved line from vein 3 

 to inner margin ; a terminal series of small blackish lunules 

 defined on inner side by a waved whitish line ; cilia blackish with 

 whitish lines at base and middle. Hind wing whitish tinged with 



