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slight dark discoidal points and brownish shades below and 

 beyond end of cell ; postmedial line double, dentate, with a 

 dark spot on the inner line at discal fold, incurved at sub- 

 median fold ; the apex with brown patch ; a terminal series 

 of blackish stride and a brown line through the cilia. 

 Hah. E. Peru, Pozuzo, 2 ? type. Exp. 30 mm. 



(40 a) '^Sylepta desmialis, sp, n. 



Hind tibi?e of male with very thick tufts of hair on upper 

 side. 



$ . Fuscous ; palpi at base, pectus, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen white; legs black and white. Fore wing with sub- 

 basal hyaline point in cell ; quadrate antemedial spots in cell, 

 the latter with a similar spot below it; a lunulate mark just 

 beyond the cell composed of five almost conjoined spots 

 between veins 3 and 8, the two middle ones larger. Hind 

 wing with oblique dark medial line ending above tornus ; a 

 quadrate discoidal hyaline spot with a short dark line on its 

 outer edge ; cilia of both wings with a fine white hue at 

 base. 



Hub. S. Nigeria, Lagos {Boug), ] S, Sapele (F. W. 

 Sampson), 3 S type. Exp. 24 mm. 



(40 c) Sylepta melanomma, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with dark 

 brown ; palpi white with blackish bands at middle and 

 extremity ; pectus and legs ochieous white, the fore tibise 

 with fuscous band at extiemity; abdomen ochreous white 

 banded with brown, the terminal segment with blackish 

 ])ateli, the ventral surl'ace white. Fore wing ochreous 

 white ; somesvhat oblique blacldsh subbasal and antemedial 

 bands, the latter confluent with a spot on its outer side 

 below the cell ; somewhat quadrate blackish spots in end 

 of cell and on discocellulars, confluent on median nervure, 

 and a band from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the 

 terminal area broadly blackish with a cupreous gloss, an 

 ochreous-white postmedial bar on it from costa to vein 6 ; 

 cilia whitish. Hind wing ochreous white ; a faint diffused 

 dark subbasal band; a blackish discoidal spot.; a dark post- 

 medial band, obhque to vein 3, then bent inwards to lower 

 angle of cell and oblique to above tornus ; terminal area 

 blackish with a cupreous gloss, joined at vein 2 by a spur 

 from postmedial band and witli an ochreous-white sub- 



