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line of fore wiii;^, less irregular postmcdiaii and more 

 oclircous hind wing, marked more as xnfuher, IIoll. Rather 

 variable in colour and especially in the strength of the 

 markings; an al)crration in which the antemediau lines are 

 weak and the median shade strong and black may be named 

 ab. unilinea, ab. n. 



26, AcJuen cymotias, sp. n. 



c?.— 77-80 mm. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous-brown, above darker. 

 Palpus with third joint rather short. Antenna almost 

 simple ; mid-tarsus without hair ; first and second joints o£ 

 hind tarsus fringed with hair above. 



Fare wing warm brown (ochreous mixed with dark 

 olivaceous brown), between antemediau and median lines 

 muL'h paler, strongly overlaid with violaceous, in distal area 

 variegated; antemediau line fine, almost straight, from oue- 

 tliird eosta to two-fifths hind margin, whitish-edged distally ; 

 reniform narrow, crescentie, darkest and thickest at its 

 ends, placed midway between antemedian and median ; 

 median line gently excurved in anterior part, incurved in 

 l)osterior; postmediau from two-thirds eosta to four-fifths 

 liind margin, strongly bicurved (outwards between K' and 

 M', inwards between M^ and hind mai'gin), dark-shaded 

 proxinially and edged by a fine white or whiti>h line distally; 

 distal area whitish violaceous near the postmediau line and 

 in an ill-defined oblique shade from middle of suhterminal 

 to teruien about fold, narrowly darkeued at ternicn from 

 this point to near apex, otherwise mostly olive-brownish ; ati 

 oblicpie blackish shade from apex towards outer lobe of 

 postmediau ; faint traces of zigzag whitish suhterminal 

 line; a black dot at fold close to termen ; terminnl dark 

 line ill-defined ; fringe with a pale line at base and a second 

 beyond middle. 



Hind icing more fuscous ; an indistinct slightly curved 

 oblique pale median line ; very faint indications of other 

 pale lines or shades distally ; a whitish apical spot ; termen 

 and fringe nearly as on fore wings, the fringe paler anteriorly 

 than posteriorly. Both wings beneath grey-brown with 

 crescentie cell-mark (on hind wing rounder), curved median 

 and crenulate postmeilian line and vague pale creuuhite 

 suhterminal, accompanied proximally by a dark shade; 

 terminal area paler, especially in distal half, which contains 

 a row of small iuterneural black dots. 



Bitje, Ja ilivcr, Cameroous, 20U0 feet {Bates), 3 <^ c?, the 



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