622 NOCTUID”. 
dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing ochreous white suffused 
with red-brown and irrorated with a few blackish scales ; a white 
patch with brown scales mixed at base of inner margin, defined by 
an obliquely curved dark line; a white point defined by brown in 
middle of cell and two small white discoidal spots defined by 
brown ; an oblique straight dark brown line from apex to middle 
of inner margin; cilia brown with a fine white line at base. Hind 
wing ochreous white tinged with brown; the underside white. 
Hab, Gotv Coast, Kumasi ( Whiteside), 1 g; Gaxsoon, Ogové R., 
type f in Coll. Holland. Zep. 32 millim. 
7055. Metaleptina nigribasis. 
Metaleptina nigribasis, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 551, pl. 21. f. 11 (1893). 
Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some grey; pectus 
and legs creamy white, the mid tibie tinged with brown; abdomen 
dark reddish brown mixed with some grey, the basal crest blackish, 
the ventral surface white. Fore wing pale red-brown slightly 
Fig. 249.—Metaleptina nigribasis, §. 3. 
irrorated with black; an oblique black-brown fascia on base of 
inner margin; a minute black point at upper angle of cell; an 
oblique rufous line from apex to inner margin just beyond middle. 
Tfind wing uniform fuscous brown ; the underside creamy white, a 
diffused curved brown postmedial line, the termen tinged with 
brown except at apex and tornus. 
Hab. S. Nieerta, Ilesha (Humfrey), 1 ¢: Coneo, Kangwe 
(Good), type T ¢ in Coll. Holland. Zxp. 30 millim. 
7056, Metaleptina albilinea, n. sp. (Plate CXC. fig. 18.) 
Q. Head white; palpi suffused with brown at sides; antenne 
brownish; thorax brown mixed with white; pectus white; legs 
white suffused with brown ; abdomen white, dorsally suffused with 
brown. Fore wing whitish suffused with brown and irrorated with 
fuscous, the costal edge white; a fuscous point in middle of cell 
and points at upper and lower angles; postmedial line brown 
defined on outer side by white, oblique and straight from apex to 
inner margin beyond middle ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. 
Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; a fine pale line at base of 
cilia; the underside whitish tinged with brown, a diffused brown 
postmedial shade, obtusely angled at vein 5, then oblique. 
Hab. 8. Nigurta, lesha (Humfrey), 1 2 type. Exp. 34 millim. 
