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the first two within the basal third very oblique, the third and 

 fourth within the middle third also oblique, the fifth straight at 

 the commencement of the apical third, and the sixth and seventh 

 (also straight and more than twice the length of the others) immedi- 

 ately before the apex all these streaks are narrowly margined on 

 both sides with dark fuscous and with a few lilac-metallic scales at 

 the lower extremities of the third and fifth streaks ; in the orange 

 space between the fifth and sixth costal streaks is an isolated, oblique, 

 bright metallic lilac patch similarly margined ; cilia purplish 

 fuscous, interrupted at the upper third of the outer margin by a 

 small wedge-shaped pale straw-coloured spot. Underside dirty 

 ochreous all the pale straw-coloured streaks being distinctly white. 

 Exp. /., g 14 mm. ; $ 15-20 mm. Hindwings bronzy ochreous, 

 shaded with brownish fuscous around their margins ; cilia slightly 

 paler, with an ill-defined darker parting line along their base. 

 Abdomen bronzy ochreous, whitish cinereous beneath. Ley* 

 cinereous with bronzy brown spots and shading on the hind tibiae 

 and tarsal joints. 



Type. $ ? . 



Hob. French Congo Kangwe, Ogowe River (Rev* 

 A. C. Good) ; three specimens. 



[Hilarographa was proposed by Zeller, Hor. Soc. Ent. 

 Ross., XIII., 186-7(1877) as a subdivision of his existing; 

 genus Setiostotna, and having as its types swederiana> 

 Stoll, and ribbei, Z. 



Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 286, raised 

 Hilarographa to generic rank, giving a careful 

 structural description, and adding a new species, zapyra 

 from New Guinea, the type of which is in my collection, 

 and it was from this specimen, differing in neuration 

 from swederiana, Stoll, that his generic description was 

 probably taken, as it conforms in every particular, and 

 no reference was made to either of Zeller's original 

 types. 



I have not been able to examine the neuration of 

 ribbei, Z. (the type of which is in Staudinger's cabinet), 

 to see whether it agrees in structure with swederiana, 

 Stoll ; but of this I have specimens, and I select it as the 

 type of Hilarographa, Z., with the following generic 

 characters : 



