171 the British Musfium. ;^39 



area in the costal cell immediately al)Ove Fis ; otiier areas in 

 tlie ends of cells Cu and I.9/ A ; beyond the cord in cells 

 2nd /?, to /?., ; a small spot in the end of cell R^ ; outcn* two- 

 thirds of cell Mx largely pale ; a lar-oe rounded spot near 

 tlie end of cell (^n^ ; tiny white spots before the arculus, at 

 the end of cell 2nd Mo and near the base of cell M^ ; veins 

 dark brown. Venation : Rs' short, less than R.2 ; petiole of 

 cell -T/, very short, but little longer than m ; basal deflection 

 of Ciii a little before mid-leiiuth of cell 1.9/ Afg. 



Abdominal tergites yellowish orange, variegated with 

 reddish, the margins cinnamon-brown ; pleiu-al membrane 

 daik brown ; sternites orange-yellow ; terminal segments 

 dark brown. Ovipositor with the valves dark brown, the 

 tergal valves broadly tipped with horn-colonr, slightly up- 

 curved at the tips ; sternal valves straight, slender. 



Hab. Southern Nigeria. 



Holoti/pe, ? , Akwete, May 13, 1910 (/. /. Simpson). 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Lecteria laticincta may be readily distinguished from the 

 clos'dy allied L.triacanthofi. Alexander, and L.shnpsoni,S[). n., 

 I)y the broader bands on the wing and the entire absence of 

 small spots and dots in the hyaline interspaces. 



Lecteria simpsoni, sp. n. 



Similar to L. triacanthos, Alexander, but the wings longer 

 and narrower, with darker interrupted cross-bands and com- 

 paratively few dots in the interspaces. 



Male. — Length 14'5 mm. ; wing 13'5 mm., its greatest 

 width 3"2 mm. 



Closely related to L. triacanthos, from which it differs as 

 follows : — 



Legs with tiie pale bands on the femora and tibite more 

 yellow than white (tarsi broken), ^^'ings narrower, the 

 large brown spots on the wings much darker, this effect 

 produced by the much hroader dark margins that surround 

 the spots, the pale centres often indistinct ; these large spots 

 are broken up so that thoy appear as interrupted bands ; the 

 spots occur at the origin of Rs \ fork of Rs narrowly con- 

 nected with a large seam along the cord ; a large, somewhat 

 isolated spot at /• and the fork of /^._,_3 ; another spot at the 

 tip of /?2 ; the small dots on the wing are relatively few in 

 number, much fewer than in L. triacanthos : thus in cell C 

 there are but six or seven small scattered spots ; none in 

 cell R proximad of the spot at the origin of Rs ; only two 



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