PLUSIOCALPE.—HYPODEVA. 599 
scaling before it; the scale-tooth at tornus tipped with dark 
brown, Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown, the fringe 
of thick hair on inner margin dark brown; cilia whiter at tips. 
Hab. Mavsaeascar (Saalmuller), 1 3. Exp. 32 millim. 
Sect. II, Hind wing of male without fringe of long hair on inner area. 
7016. Plusiocalpe pallida. 
Plusiocalpe pallida, Holl, Psyche, vii. p. 29, pl. 1. f. 1 (1894). 
Head and tegule pale rufous, the Jatter tipped with white ; 
palpi browner at sides; thorax white faintly tinged with brown 
and irrorated with a few brown scales; pectus and legs ochreous 
tinged with brown; abdomen ochreous white dorsally suffused 
with brown. Fore wing silky white tinged with brown and 
sparsely irrorated with brown scales ; an indistinct oblique sinuous 
brown. antemedial line strongly excurved below the cell; post- 
medial line brown, oblique to vein 6, inwardly oblique from vein 5 
Fig. 240,—Plusiocalpe pallida, S. }. 
to submedian fold near the antemedial line, then excurved above 
and below vein 1 on which it is angled inwards; an indistinct 
brownish subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle 
and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds. Hind wing 
ochreous white suffused with brown especially on terminal area ; 
cilia with a pale line at base. Underside of fore wing brown, 
the costa ochreous white on terminal half; hind wing ochreous 
white. . 
Hab. 8. Nieerta, Old Calabar (Ltutherford, Crompton), 2 5,1 9, 
Sapele (Sampson), 1 ¢; N. Nigeria, Dekina (Macfie), 1 5; Gaxoon, 
Ogové R., 1 2 co-type; Ueanpa, Entebbe (Minchin), 1 go. Evp. 
30 millim, 
Genus HYPODEVA. i 
Hypodeva, Holl, Psyche, vii, p. 27 (1894) ........cesccseceneecnesseeees barbata. 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and rather slenderly scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth ; eyes large, 
round; antenne of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, 
the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests, the patagia clothed with rough 
curled-upwards spatulate scales; pectus clothed with long hair, the tibiae 
moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal 
