LOPHOPTERA. 1lja 
fuscous brown terminal band, the inner margin tinged with brown ; 
cilia ochreous white; the underside with some brownish suffusion 
at middle of costa and striga on upper discocellular. 
Hab. Gown Coast, Kumasi (Whiteside) 1 ¢ type; 8. Nieeria, 
Ilesha (Humphrey), 25,19. Exp. 32 millim, 
Genus LOPHOPTERA. 
Type. 
Lophoptera, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 54 (1852) ....... Re adewdacseguees sguammigera, 
Bisco, \uifllle seayaiic teh) (C6108) Afaenconeansopocnocpdeebondosoosecdop5060c Serrinalis. 
Ciasa, Wk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool, vii. p. 165 (1864)......... pustulifera. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 
to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the drd short, porrect ; frons smooth, 
with tuft of hair above; eyes large, rounil; antennz of male almost simple; 
thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibia moderately 
{ringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 
the termen eventy curved and slightly crenulate; 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, 5 from angle of cell; 6, 7 
form upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
A. Fore wing with the costal area darker than the ground- 
colour. 
a. Hind wing with the interspaces hyaline-white to beyond 
the cell. 
a, Fore wing with white fascia below the dark area 
from base of costa along median nervure to beyond 
Gling, Geille wasesnonaonnqeccvauncacasdonnecopsbadacodasceaossanas squammigera, 
b1, Fore wing with faint whitish tinge below and beyond 
Grad) OP CElll Gostadeanactendon cHanbdudsesessdonsonnnsconos s068C aleuca, 
b. Hind wing with the interspaces indistinctly semihyaline 
fo beyond the cell S002... .2.-cs-<0+ce/-- ---sa+-n2+-20e~snc costata. 
B. Fore wing with the costal area not darker than the 
ground-colour. 
a. Fore wing without green markings. 
a, Hind wing hyaline-white, the terminal area black... me/hyulea, 
b', Hind wing with the interspaces clear hyaline to 
beyond the cell, the veins and terminal area dark. 
a2 Fore wing with the basal half deep rufous with 
oblique outer edge...............665 seouosnocoasboouesnec semirufa. 
22, Fore wing with the basal half not rufous. 
a?, Fore wing without white suffusion on post- 
medial costal area. 
a*. Hind wing with the hyaline area tinged 
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}4, Hind wing with the hyaline area not tinged =~ 
with blue. 
a. Fore wing with the medial line oblique 
to submedian fold, then bent inwards to 
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%8, Fore wing with the medial line oblique 
to submedian fold, then erect. 
a’. Fore wing with the postmedial line 
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b6, Fore wing with the postmedial line 
angled outwards kelow costa and 
excurved at middle, but not waved...... pheobasis, 
