EARIAS. BOL 
6860. Earias ogovana. (Plate CLXXXVII. fig. 8.) 
Earias ogovana, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 898 (1893). 
@. Head and thorax yellow-green; palpi brown and white; 
antenne brown; pectus and legs white, the fore tibie and tarsi 
dark brown, the latter ringed with white; abdomen dark brown, 
the ventral surface white except towards extremity. Fore wing 
yellow-green ; a medial dark green line, oblique from costa to 
median nervure, then erect; postmedial line dark green, excurved 
from costa to submedian fold; the costal edge towards apex and 
the cilia dark nurple-brown. Hind wing whitish wholly suffused 
with purple-brown, the cilia paler with a brown line through them. 
Underside of fore wing whitish suffused with purple-brown; hind 
wing whitish, the costal area and terminal area to vein 3 irrorated 
with brown. 
Hab. Gown Coast, Bibianaha (Spurrell), 1 9; 8. Nienrra, Olo- 
kemeji (Dudgeon), 1 9 ; Llesha (Humphrey), 1 2; GaBoon, Ogove R., 
type fin Coll. Holland. xp. 28 millim. 
6861. Earias biplaga. 
Earias biplaga, Wik. xxxv. 1773 (1866); Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 282. 
Earias fusciciliana, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xv. p. 86 (1872); Kirby, Cat. Lep. 
Het. p. 282. 
Earias maculana, Snell, Tijd. v. Ent. xv. p. 86 (1872); Kirby, Cat. Lep. 
Het. p. 282. 
Earias plaga, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 108. f. 20 (187+). 
Head and thorax yellow-green ; palpi brown mixed with white ; 
antenn brown; pectus and legs white, the fore tibise and tarsi 
and the extremities of mid and hind tarsi chocolate-brown irrorated 
with white; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brownish. Fore 
wing yellow-green; traces of medial and postmedial waved lines, 
oblique and green from costa to discal fold, then dark brown filled 
in with brown irrorated with dark brown and with the indistinct 
dark discoidal spot on its inner edge; traces of a green subterminal 
line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; cilia with the tips 
chocolate-brown irrorated with grey. Hind wing semihyaline 
white, the termen and cilia suffused with purplish brown from apex 
to vein 2. Underside of fore wing and costal area of hind wing 
yellowish, the costal areas slightly irrorated with brown. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with series of dark points on the lines, the dark 
discoidal spot prominent, the area between medial and postmedial 
lines not filled in with brown on inner half. 
Ab. 2. fusciciliana. Fore wing without brown discoidal spot or 
postmedial brown area. 
Hab. Sturra Leone (Morgan), 1 2 type; 8. Nicrrta, Lagos, 
Ebute Meta (Boag), 1 2, Calabar (Simpson), 1 9, Aro (Simpson), 
1 9; N. Nicurra, Zungeru (Macfie), 1 9, Borgu, Yelwa Lake 
(Migeod),1 3 ; Lr. Gurvea; Br. KE. Avrica, Taveta (Rogers), 22, 
Nairobi (Crawshay), 1 9, Eb Urra (Betton), 1 2 ; Br. ©. Arrica, 
