620 NOCTUIDX. 
white lines, the area beyond it white shading into golden bronze 
on terminal area; an indistinct, rather maculate subterminal line, 
unusually remote from termen, angled outwards at vein 7 and 
inwards in discal and submedian folds and excurved at middle. 
Hind wing pale golden bronze. Underside of fore wing pale golden 
bronze with the inner area whitish. 
2. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas much 
browner. 
Hab. 8. Nieurta, Lagos (Boag), 1 ¢, Old Calabar (Crompton), 
1 ¢ type, Akassa (Lugard), 1 $, Sapele (Sampson),2 9. Kup. 
28 millim. ! 
7U51. Neonegeta pollusca. 
Leocyma pollusca, Schaus, Lep. Sierra Leone, p. 35, pl. 2. f. 12 (1893). 
2. Head white tinged with brown; thorax and abdomen 
whitish suffused with brown. Fore wing pale violaceous grey- 
brown; a fine straight oblique dark antemedial line; a black 
point at upper angle of cell and minute white spot at lower angle ; 
postmedial line fine, dark, erect to vein 6, then obliqne; a sub- 
terminal series of small obscure blackish spots ; a fine white line at 
base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown; a fine white line at base 
of cilia; the underside whitish tinged with brown. 
Hab. Sterra Leonr; Gorp Coasr, Ajinah (Dudgeon), 1 9. Lep. 
24 millim. 
Genus METALEPTINA. Type 
Metaleptina, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 550 (1893) -.......0....00eeeceenes nigribasis. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd long; frons 
smooth with ridge of scales above; eyes large, round; antenne of male ciliated ; 
thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests, the patagia 
typically with thick fringe of scales at extremity; tibie of male with thick 
fringe of hair, the hind tibi greatly dilated and with large tuft of long hair on 
inner side ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, long in male. Fure 
wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; vein 
5 from before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle; 6 from upper angle ; 
9% and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing 
with vein 3 from close to angle of cell; 4,5 from angle; 6,7 from upper angle ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Sect. I. The patagia with thick fringe of scales at extremity; tibia of male 
with thick fringe of hair, the hind tibis greatly dilated and with large 
tuft of long hair on inner side. 
A. Fore wing with the postmedial line minutely dentate 
BL. Fore wing with the postmedial line not dentate. 
a. Fore wing with the postmedial line arising from costa 
before apex and slightly incurved below vein 4 ......... albibasis. 
6. Fore wing with the postmedial line arising from apex, 
oblique and straight. 
ndecoc microcyma. 
