180 NOCTUID 2. 
on vein | and outwards above inner margin; reniform defined by 
blackish, constricted at middle; postmedial line double, blackish, 
strongly bent ontwards below costa, then dentate, some whitish 
points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish, dentate ; 
a terminal series of black strive defined on inner side by whitish ; 
cilia grey with two fine blackish lines towards base, chequered 
white and fuscous at tips. Hind wing black-brown, the basal half 
with hyaline streaks in, below, and heyond cell and above and below 
vein 1; cilia white at tips; the underside with the basal half grey, 
the terminal half fuscous, a dark bar from middle of cell and 
indistinct postmedial line exenrved below costa. 
Hab, Cameroons, Ja R., Bitje (Bates), type T Sd, Q in Coll. 
Druce. wp. 28 millim. 
6413. Lophoptera abbreviata. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig 
on 
21.) 
Lophoptera abbreviata, Wik. xxxiii, 921 (1865). 
¢. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some fuscous; tarsi 
black-brown ringed with whitish ; abdomen fuscous brown slightly 
tinged with grey. Tore wing red- brown slightly tinged in parts 
with fuscous ; subbasal line Tepresented by two ‘slight strive from 
costa; antemedial line indistinct, double, dentate, angled outwards 
above inner margin; claviform and orbicular represented by tufts 
of blackish scales on their outer edges ; reniform indistinctly defined 
and with points of raised scales on its edges ; medial line indistinct, 
dark, angled outwards in cell and excurved in submedian inter- 
space; postmedial line double, strongly bent outwards below costa, 
then minutely dentate and oblique, a band of fuscous suffusion on 
its outer side defined by a series of spots formed of raised pale and 
black scales, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; subterminal 
line indistinct, greyish defined on outer side by fuscous suffusion, 
dentate; a terminal series of slight fuscous lunules ; cilia fuscous 
chequered with rufous at tips. Hind wing black-brown with 
bluish hyaline streaks in lower part of cell, below and beyond the 
cell, the streaks above and below vein 6 extending to nearer 
termen ; the inner area with three bluish hyaline streaks extending 
to well beyond middle ; cilia white with some brown at base. 
Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), 1 ¢ ; Ausrratia, 1 ¢ type. 
Exp. 34 millim. 
6414. Lophoptera litigiosa. 
Avamea litigiosa, Boisd. Faun, Ent. Madag. p. 93, pl. 16. f. 3 (1833). 
Lophoptera cristigera, Guen. Noet. iii, p. 55 Fea 
Stictoptera alutacea, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 112. f. 4 (1874). 
Lophoptera squamulosa, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 440, f. 147 (1880). 
Head and thorax brown tinged with grey; pectus grey; tarsi 
blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown, the crest on 
