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NOCTUIDiE. 



hind legs oehreous brown ; alxloraen ochreous with some blackish at 

 base and some scarlet at sides. Fore wing black-brown ; a white 

 fascia on basal half of costa leaving the costal edge blackish ; an 

 oblique white line from the fascia before middle to above inner 

 margin near base ; a narrow oblifiue white band fvom the extremity 

 of tile costal fascia to a crimson patch at tornus, the band with a 

 hooked black mark on its lower extremity, the crimson patch with 

 two small subterminal and two terminal black spots on it, the upper 

 terminal spot larger; a terminal black line with a naiTOW white 

 band before it ending at the tornal patch ; cilia brownish. Hind 

 wing crimson; atenninal black-brown band, broad at apex, narrowing 



Fig. 2. — Colhiisa euclidica, (^ . 



to toi-nus; a slight black sti-eak on 

 Underside of fore wing with the w bite 



inner 

 band 



margin 



extending 



above tonius. 

 to tomus 



and not extending to costa. 



Ab. 1. Hind wins* vellow. 



JIab. Gold Coast, Cape Coast Castle {Higlett), 1 S , Ashanti, 

 2 cJ, 1 2 type; S. Nigebia, Lagos, Olokeuiiji (Di/dyeoii), 5 d , 

 Mama (Diu'/f/eon), 1 $, Onitsha, 1 d' , 1 2- ' -E'-'-y. 30-48 millun. 



Genus ACANTHODELTA. 



Acanthodclta, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H, (8) i. p. 487 (1908) 



Type. 

 aistriga. 



Proboscis fully rleveloped ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of liead and moderately sealed, the 3rd porrect ; irons smooth, witli tuft 

 of hair above; eyes large, round ; antennae of male laminate; thorax clothed 

 entirely with hair and without crests; tibiae smoothly scaled, all the tibiiB 

 spilled ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing short and 

 broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; rein 3 from 

 well before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 the apex extending to well beyond tornus of fore wing, the termen crenulate ; 



