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the underside ^v]litish irrorated with brown, a small blackish 

 (liscoidal spot, curved sinuous postmedial line, aud diffused 

 subterniinal line. 



Hah. N. Nigeria, IMinna {Macfie), 2 ? type. Rrn. 

 18 mm. 



583.2 6. Lithacodia plumbifusa, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax black- brown suffused with leaden 

 grey; pectus, leg^, and abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing 

 black-brown suffused with leaden greV ; autemedial line grey 

 defined on outer side by brown suffusion, waved ; orbicMjlar 

 aud reniform absent ; postmedial line greyi.sli defined on 

 inner side by brown suffusion, somewhat oblique towards 

 costa, then dentate, incurved in submedian interspace ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, diffused, dark brown, excurved below 

 costa and at middle aud incurved at discal fold and below 

 vein 3 : a terminal series of black points. Hind wing greyish 

 suffused with glossy brown. 



Hub. N. NiGEKi.A, Minna (Macfie), 1 ? type. Kriy, 

 16 mm. 



Genus Callostrotia, nov. 

 Type, C.Jlatizonata. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the second joint 

 reacluug to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the third 

 rather long; frons with rounded prominence; eyes large^ 

 round ; antenna of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales, the metathorax with depressed crest; 

 abdomen with basal crest only. Fore wing rather long and 

 narrow, the termen evenly curved and not crenulatc ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a minute areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hing wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; .5 nearly 

 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle'; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5848 a. Callostrotia fhivhonata, sp. n. 



c? . Head and thorax black mixed with yellow ; antenme 

 yellowish with a black line between their bases; abdomen 

 black with yellow segmental lines, the extremity yellow, 

 lore wing with the base black with some yellow and silvery 

 scales; a yellow subbasal striga from co.^^ta ; a yellow ante- 

 medial band with .sinuous edges; medial area black iirorated 

 with yellow and silvery scales ; a small yellow spot in middle 



