412 NOCTUID A. 
and black points on medial part of termen; cilia white tinged with 
brown, fuscous towards apex and tornus. Underside of both wings 
whitish, a medial black band diffused on disk of tore wing, the 
terminal area broadly black. 
Hab. Br. N. Goriyea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 2 ¢ type. Exp. 34 
millim. 
6748. Blenina chloromelana. (Plate CLXXXYV. fig. 7.) 
Acontia chloromelana, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) x. p. 89 (1890). 
Eliocrea chloroptila, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 68 (1894). 
Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with greenish grey; 
palpi with the 2nd joint black above; pectus and legs whitish 
tinged with rufous; abdomen greenish grey suffused with rufous, 
the ventral area whitish. Fore wing red-brown suffused with 
blackish, the basal half pale green irrorated with white leaving the 
costal edge and base of inner margin rufous, sometimes with 
blackish patch on inner margin before the medial line; a dentate 
subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique sinuous 
medial line; two obliquely placed black discoidal points with 
paler patch beyond them; postmedial line irregularly dentate, 
oblique from costa to vein 4, angled inwards on vein 2, then 
excurved to inner margin, some white and green suifusion beyond 
it on costal area; a dark subterminal line, strengly angled outwards 
at vein 7, excurved and minutely dentate at middle, bent inwards 
at vein 2, then oblique to near ternus, some white beyond it 
between vein + and submedian fold ; cilia brown intersected with 
orange on apical half, whitish towards tornus. Hind wing fuscous 
brown with a reddish tinge; cilia yellow intersected with brown 
from below apex to vein 2. Underside of fore wing fuscous brown, 
the inner area whitish, some grey on costa from middle to near 
apex, traces of a line from costa to lower angle of cell ; hind wing 
whitish suffused with reddish brown leaving the costal area paler, 
a diffused medial line from costa to submedian fold, a blackish 
terminal band from apex to vein 2. 
Hab. Sterra Leone (Bartlett), 1 9; 8. Nieerta, Old Calabar 
(Crompton), 1 ¢,12, lesha (Humphrey), 12; Gaxsoon, Ogove R.., 
type t chloroptilain Coll. Holland. wp. 42 millim. Type f in 
Coll. Mabille. 
*6749. Blenina smaragdina. (Plate CLXXXYV. fig. 8.) 
Blenina smaragdina, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool, xiii. p. 223 (1906). 
¢. Head and thorax white mixed with yellow-green ; palpi 
with the basal half black, the 3rd joint with black bands at base 
and tips; frons with lateral black spots; antenne black; tegule 
black at tips, the patagia black on outer edge and at tips, the meta- 
thoracic crests with some black; pectus and legs white, the tibiz 
and tarsi with black bands; abdomen white suffused with brown, 
the crests black. Fore wing yellow-greev, the terminal area 
