in the British Museum. 17 



Antenn<ie dark brownish black. Head clear light grey, the 

 vertex surrounding tlie antennal bases iufuscated. ; coriii- 

 culus flatteued, sub-oval^ narrowed at the base, pale orange, 

 the surtace whitish-pubescent. Space between the eyes 

 broad. 



Pronotum dark brown. Mesonolal proescutum greatly 

 narrowed and projecting anteriorly over the pronotum, li^hc 

 reddish orange in colour without apparent darker markings ; 

 remainder of the mesouottim brown. Pleura pale, wdtli a 

 very broad, dark brown, dorsal stripe extending from the 

 pronotum to the base of the abdomen. Sternum dark 

 bnnvn, this colour continued across ttie outer faces oF the 

 middle and hind coxa;. Halteres pde yellow, the base of 

 the stem a little darker, the knobs large, dark brownish 

 black. Legs with the fore coxie light-colour d, tiie middle 

 a id hind coxte more or less int'unied on their outer faces ; 

 trochanters dull yellow ; remainder of the legs dark brown, 

 the femoral bases and the last tarsal segment paler. Wings 

 with a pale creamy tinge, the wing-base and costal region 

 more yellowish ; a heavy dark brown pattern as follows : — 

 a small seam at A ; a large dark brown mark just beyond the 

 arculus, extending from cell C to the \st Anal vein'; a large 

 sean at Sc^ \ a large U-shaped mark at the origin of Rs, on 3 

 branch embracing the tip of Sc^, the other the tip of Ry, tlie 

 end of cell Sc between being pale, this brown mark continued 

 caudad almost to vein M ; a large rounded area at the end 

 of vein i?2+3J cord and outer end of cell 1^/ J/^ seamed 

 with dark brown; brown spots at the ends of veins of O/i, 

 C'mi, 1*^ A, and 2nd A ; a large cloud beyond mid-length of 

 vein 1^^ A ; a paler brown subapical band extending from 

 cell R2 to M-i, the extreme wing-tip in cells R^, R-,, and J/2 

 creamy white; veins yellow, dark brown in the darkened 

 areas. Venation : Ro+s very long for a member of this 

 genus, gently bisinuous, approximately as long as the sector 

 itself, cell R^ being unusually long; cell l.y^ M.y closed ; 

 basal deflection of C'wi before the fork of J/, the distance a 

 little longer than in. 



Abdomen dark brown. 



Hub. Southern Nigeria. 



Holotijpe, (^ , Ikotobo, November 1913 (Dr. J. If. Scolt- 

 Mac fie) . 



Presented by the Imperial Bureau of Entomologv, 191 1. 

 48. 



Type in the collection of the British ^luseum (Natural 

 History). 



Ann. c£- Mag. X Ilist. Ser. '». Vvl. vi. 2 



