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Genera and Species <)/ XocfuiiliO. 171 



■with whitish and darker hiown, a rufous patcli l)cvoud tlie 

 cell; an oblique white medial line; postmedial line slight, 

 whitish, minutely dentate and witli minute black streaks at 

 the veins; traces of a pale minutely waved subterminal line; 

 a dark terminal line and white line at base of cilia which 

 have waved brown lines through them ; the underside white 

 irroratcd with brown, an indistinct brown line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin, and traces of a waved 

 subterminal line. 



flab. Gold Coast, Kumasi [Sunders), 1 ^ type. Exp. 

 22 mm. 



5264 a. Eublemma melahasis, sp. n. 



^. Head and tegulse brownish white: thorax pale grey 

 with some fuscous on outer edge of patagia arul extremity 

 of metathorax ; pectus and legs whitish, the fore and mid 

 tibiae fuscous, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 brownish white. Fore wing white very finely and thickly 

 striated with brown ; the antemedial area suftuscd with 

 black, bounded by the inwardly oblique black antemedial 

 line ; a small diffused black discoidal annulus, with a black 

 point a'nove it on costa ; postmedial line black and very 

 oljlique from costa to near termen above vein 4, then hardly 

 traceable and incurved, two minute l)lack streaks beyond it 

 on costa ; an oblique black streak from apex to the post- 

 medial line, diffused below and angled outwards at vein 7 ; 

 some black points before inner half of termen ; a brownish 

 terminal line. Hind Aving white irroratcd with brown ; 

 some black points before termen towards tornus; the 

 underside white slightly irroratcd with Ijrown. 



Hub. N. NiGEKiA, Zuugeru (Mucjie), 1 (^ type, Exp. 

 18 mm. 



Genus Lophocuyptis, nov. 

 Type, L. aryyropJiora. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 

 second joint reaching to about middle of frons, the third mode- 

 rate; frous smooth ; eyes large, round; antennje of female 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed entirely with scales and without 

 crests ; tibiae slightly fringed with liair; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the teruieu 

 sligiitly excised below apex, excurved at vein 4, then 

 oblique; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 7 shortly stalked witli 8, 9; 10, 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with a large tuft of elongate scales in end of ceil 

 on upperside; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully 



