LOPHOPTERA. 181 
3rd segment black, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing brown 
suffused with grey ; subbasal line double, black, curved, from costa 
to submedian fold; antemedial line double, irregularly dentate ; 
claviform and orbicular represented by tufts of raised black scales 
at their extremities; reniform rather incompletely defined by 
raised black scales; medial line black, oblique and slightiy sinuous 
to submedian fold, bent inwards to inner margin; postmedial line 
double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved 
and filled in by minute whitish lunules, incurved at discal fold and 
below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa and a series of 
small pale and blackish spots, incurved below vein 4, the two black 
spots below costa more distinct; a minutely waved greyish sub- 
terminal line with slight black streaks beyond it in the interspaces, 
the black streak below costa more prominent; a terminal series of 
black striz defined on inner side by whitish ; cilia with two slight 
blackish lines through them. Hind wing black-brown, the cell 
and interspaces below and beyond it hyaline, the inner area with 
hyaline streaks above and below vein 1 to beyond middle ; cilia 
white at tips; the underside with dark bar from middle of costa 
and indistinct postmedial line. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing darker brown. 
Ab. 2. Fore wing grey suffused with ftscous, the medial area 
paler. 
Ab. 3. Fore wing with white points before the tufts of scales 
representing the claviform, the orbicular and reniform filled in 
with white. 
Ab. 4. Fore wing with band of black suffusion beyond the 
antemedial line. 
Ab. 5. Fore wing rufous to the medial line. 
Hab. 8. Leone (Bartlett), 1 g ; Gorp Coasr, Kumasi ( Whiteside), 
19; 8. Nigeria, Lagos (Dudgeon), 2 9 ; Br. #. Arrica, Eb Urru 
(Betton), 1 g, Neugia (Crawshay), 2 3 ; Br. C. Arrica, Chiromo 
(Weave), 1 g¢ ; N.E. Ruaoprsta, E. Luangwa Distr., Petauke 
(Neavze), 1 3,19 3 Transvaat, White RK. (Cooke), 1 g ; Navat, 
Durban (Leigh), 2 3 ; Carn Corony, Transkei (Wiss 2. Barrett), 
1 2 ; Mapagascar, Forét d Ambre (Meade-Waldo),1 3. vp. 24- 
30 millim., 
6415. Lophoptera hemithyris. (Pilate CLX XVIII. fig. 22.) 
Stictoptera hemithyris, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 534 (19095). 
Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown mixed with some 
grey; pectus mostly grey; abdomen with the dorsal crests dark, 
the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing dark reddish brown slightly 
tinged with grey, the basal area rather darker, the discal area 
paler; a dark elliptical subbasal patch defined by brown from 
costa to median neryure; a slightly waved antemedial line with 
striga of raised black scales beyond it from subcostal nervure to 
submedian fold; a medial line oblique from costa to submedian 
