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cilia whitish mixed with hrown. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with brown ; cih'a whitish with a l)laokish line through 

 them ; the underside '^rej irrorated with dark brown, a 

 slight dark discoidal spot, rather diffused waved postmedial 

 line indistinct except towards costa, and faint subterminal 

 shade. 



Hab. C. China, [Chungking (IF. R. Brown\ 1 ? type. 

 E.rp. 30 mm. 



3880 a. Lophotarsia minuta, sp. n. 



Head and thorax grey-brown ; antennse blackish ; tarsi 

 black ringed with white; abdomen grey-brown suffused with 

 black, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing reddish brown 

 suffused with fuscous and irrorated with grey ; traces of a 

 curved dark antemcdial line ; the orbicular and rcniform 

 represented by some grey scales ; faint traces of a curved 

 postmedial line; subterminal line represented by some 

 minute blackish streaks in the interspaces ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing pure white, the costa tinged 

 with brown towards apex ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, a terminal series of dark points 

 except towards toinus. 



Hub. N. Nigeria, Minna {Macjie), 1 J" , 1 ? type. Exj). 

 20 mm. 



3913 a. AmpJddrina melanosema , sp. n. 

 ?. Head and thorax white tinged with rufous; palpi 

 pale rufous with some blackish at sides; legs pale rufous, 

 the fore tibise black, the tarsi black with pale rings ; abdo- 

 men greyish tinged with rufous and irrorated with blackish. 

 Fore wing pale j)urpli.sh grey tinged in parts with rufous 

 and irrorated with blackish ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, blackish, oblique and slightly sinuous ; orbicular 

 a minute black spot defined by whitish ; reniform black 

 with whitish anuulus, produced at lower extremity, a blacki.sh 

 patch above it on costa ; postmedial line double, black filled 

 in with wliiiish, oblique to vein G and slightly incurved below 

 vein 4- ; a terminal series of minute black lunules. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown with a cupreous gloss ; cilia whitish 

 tinged with brown; the utulcrside grey-white irrorated Avith 

 blackish, a small black discoidal spot and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Huh. Lorenzo ^Marques, 1 ? type. E.rp. 31' mm. 



3933 a. Athelis atrispherica, sp. n. 

 (^ . Head aid thorax red-brown ; antemue with dark 

 rings ; palpi black at sides except at tips; tarsi black ringed 



