204 Sir G. F. Hampson on neiv 



mixed witli brown, the tarsi blackisli ringed with ochreons; 

 abdomen dark brown, the ventral surface irrorated with 

 grey. Fore wing purpHsh grey, the terminal area dark 

 brown ; a slight dark siibbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, dark, sinuous, defined on inner 

 side by pinkish towards costa ; a sinuous dark medial line 

 excurved at median nervnre and with band of dark suffusion 

 beyond it; a pinkish white discoidal striga; postmedial line 

 double, dark tilled in with grey and defined on outer side by 

 grey, slightly incurved at discal and submedian folds, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; a slight greyish subtcnniiial 

 line somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 blackish terminal line defined on inner side by slight whitish 

 lunuh s. Hind wing dark brown with a cupreous gloss ; the 

 underside slightly irrorated with grey. 



Hab. N. Nigeria, Minna {Macjie), 2 (^ type, Zungeru, 

 1 c? . E»^p- 18 mm. 



6760 a. Lithacodia mesomela, sp. n. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with rufous and some 

 blackish ; antenna and palpi blackish ; abdomen grey-white 

 mixed with dark brown, the crest on third segment blackish. 

 Fore wing with the ba-al area and the costal area and cell to 

 the reniform whitish suft'uscd with rufous ; a subbasal black 

 point in the cell ; antemedial line slight, doul)le, incurved in 

 cell, oblique and filled in with white below the cell ; the 

 inner half of medial area black-brown ; a black point in 

 middle of cell ; reniform elliptical with white aiinulus defined 

 by black, its centre white above, fuscous below, and in- 

 comi)letely defined by black; postmedial line douijle and 

 filled in uith white, excurved below costa. then foiming the 

 outer edge of reniform, incurved and waved below it; the 

 terminal area whitish sufliised with brown ; subterminal line 

 whitish defined on inner side irregularly by black, dentate at 

 veins 7, 0, 4, 8, 2 and incurved at discal fold ; an oblique 

 blackish mark from apex ; a pnnctilbrm blackish terminal 

 line; cilia with dark lines at middle and tips. Hind wing 

 reddish bi'own ; a fine dark terminal line; cilia whitish with 

 a dark line through tlum ; the underside Avhitish tinged 

 with ochrcons and irrorated \\\i\\ fuscous; a blackish dis- 

 coidal spot, minutely waved jjostmcdiai line, indistinct waved 

 subterminal line, and ternnnal sciics ol" black striie. 



Hab. Hr. E. Akrica, Nairoln {Ah<Iits<jii), 1 c?, 4 ? type. 

 Eip., cM^; ? -f) m"i- 



