562 ARCTIADJE. 



patches in cell and above inner margin ; a similar postmedial patch 

 above inner margin and a spot on costa ; the apical area tinged 

 with fuscous and with a blackish subapical spot ; cilia brown. 

 Hind wing brownish white. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Bibianaha (Spurrell), 3 c? ; S. Nigeria, 

 Old Calabar (Crompton), 1 § type. Exp. 14 millim. 



*5Ud. Manoba albina. (Plate XXX. fig. G.) 



Manoba albina, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 231 (1912). 



$ . Head and thorax silvery white, the latter with some cupreous 

 bi'own on dorsum ; antennae brown except towards base ; abdomen 

 brown, the anal tuft white ; palpi, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing silvery white; a 

 patch of pale cupreous brown suffusion on basal costal area defined 

 on inner and outer sides and below by black ; a blackish striga from 

 middle of costa ; postmedial line with oblique blackish striga from 

 costa, then faint, incurved below costa and in submedian interspace 

 and excurved at middle and above inner margin, a cupreous brown 

 tinge before it except at costa ; a blackish spot on costa towards 

 apex, then a line formed of somewhat dentate cupreous brown 

 marks, excurved below costa and at middle ; a terminal series of 

 small brown spots. Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown. 



Hob. Br. N. Guinea, Angabunga R. (Ifeek), typef ? in Coll. 

 Bothschild. Exp. 16 millim. 



*544 e. Manoba alboplagiata. (Plate XXX. fig. 7.) 



Manoba alboplagiata, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 232 (1912). 



5 . Head and thorax silvery white ; antennae red-brown except 

 at base ; fore legs tinged with red-brown in front ; abdomen white, 

 dorsally suffused Avith brown towards extremity. Fore wing pale 

 red-brown ; the inner area silvery white from base of costa to 

 beyond middle, and a large silvery white patch on costal area from 

 end of cell to apex, extending to lower angle of cell ; the brown 

 area with deeper red-brown sinuous antemedial line and discoidal 

 bar; a small elliptical red-brown spot beyond lower angle of cell; 

 postmedial line red-brown, obsolescent on the white area, excurved 

 to discal fold, then approximated to the somewhat dentate recl- 

 brown subterminal line which forms a small patch at costa and is 

 excurved below costa ; a terminal series of small dark brown spots. 

 Hind wing white tinged w r ith red-brown. 



Hal. Br. N. Guinea, Mambare R., Biagi {Meek), type f $ in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 14 millim. 



Genus PARASCAPTIA. 



Type. 

 Parascaptia, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 195 (1908) biplagata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi xipturned, very slender, reaching' about 



