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near base, the area beyond it, and the submedian interspace with 
rubbed appearance; subbasal line represented by slight double 
strie from costa filled in with grey; antemedial line with two 
oblique striz from costa and oblique dark bar to the lobe on inner 
Fig. 36.—Marathyssa cuneata, $. }. 
margin with white bar beyond it; reniform an ill-defined lunule 
with rufous tuft of scales at upper angle of cell; postmedial line 
faint, oblique, waved, from costa to vein 6, defined by grey on inner 
side; the terminal half of inner area with some grey and blackish 
stria ; some obscure dark points just before termen and a fine ter- 
minal line. Hind wing semilyaline whitish, the veins and terminal 
area suffused with brown; some dark striz on inner margin towards 
tornus and a rufous mark at extremity of vein 2; cilia whitish; 
the underside with two black discoidal points, traces of a curved 
medial line and a diffused subterminal band. 
Q. Fore wing with the rubbed appearance confined to the 
extremity of cell. 
Hab. Gorn Coast, Aburi (Johnson), 1 6,1 9; Br. E. Arrtca, 
Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 1 g type, Njoro(Cholmley), 2 9; Ucanna, 
intebbe (Minchin), 2 5, 2 9; Masnonatanp, Umtali (Marshall, 
Dobbie), 2 3, 3 9; Transvaat, White R. (Cooke), 1 9.. Eup. 
30-34 millim. 
6305. Marathyssa albidisca. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 9.) 
Eutelia albidisea, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 385 (1905). 
¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous irrorated with white and 
a few black scales; metathoracie crest white and rufous; tarsi 
ringed with white; abdomen with subdorsal tufts of white hair at 
base and white patch on terminal segment, the crests dark, the 
ventral surface whitish. Fore wing greyish fuscous irrorated with 
white, the cell and discal area pure white; a curved black ante- 
medial line bent outwards to inner margin; a curved black medial 
line interrupted in cell; a discoidal lunule and striga beyond upper 
angle of cell; postmedial line represented by a black point on costa, 
a black striga from below costa to vein 5 and an indistinctly double 
sinuous line from cell to inner margin ; subterminal line slight, 
white, irregularly dentate, excurved from below costa to vein 6 Se 
terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white, the ter- 
minal area fuscous, broadly so at costa, narrowing to tornus; the 
