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outer side; a black streak on vein 2 from cell to the postmedial line, 
which is double, minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, 
then incurved, with a rather dentate black mark beyond it below 
costa ; subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being 
paler except at apex, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 
middle; a terminal series of slight dark lunules. Hind wing with 
59.— Gigantoceras solstitialis, 3. }. 
Fic. 
the interspaces of basal half pale, the veins and terminal half 
fuscous; the underside with dark discoidal lunule showing through 
to upperside. 
Ab, 1. Fore wing with white fascia on inner margin from base to 
antemedial line. 
Hab. Goto Coast, Obuassi (Bergmann), 1 Q type erinopis ; 
Gaxoon, Ogowé R. (Good), type f ¢, Q in Coll. Holland. Zvp. 
3 30, 2 34-36 millim, 
6407. Gigantoceras rectilinea, n. sp. (Plate CLX XVIII. fig. 17.) 
Head and thorax pale green mixed with brownish grey; palpi 
with some brown; frons with black band above; tegule with black 
band at base; patagia except at base and metathorax black-brown : 
pectus whitish; legs tinged with brown; abdomen brown, the 
ventral surface ochreous white with a black line near extremity. 
Fore wing whitish suffused with pale olive-green and irrorated with 
silvery and a few black scales; subbasal line black, slightly angled 
outwards below costa and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line double, 
formed of raised black scales, almost straight, some brownish before 
it; reniform hardly traceable, elliptical with a bar of raised black 
scales in centre; a blackish striga froin middle of costa and diffused 
spot on vein 1 ; postmedial line with double dark striz from costa, 
then almost obsolete, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 
minutely waved and with black points beyond it on the veins, 
strongly angled inwards below vein 3, then oblique to inner margin ; 
apical area red-brown defined by an oblique black streak from 
costa to vein 6 near termen; a faint crenulate whitish subterminal 
line with greenish mark on it below costa, dark mark between 
veins 3 and 2 and oblique brown bar before it below vein 2; the 
veins of terminal area streaked with black; a terminal series of 
blackish lunules slightly defined on inner side by whitish; cilia 
brownish white. Hind wing semihyaline whitish with broad 
