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brown as far as the middle of the wings, where 

 there is a narrow yellow line running across the 

 whole surface in the posterior, but abbreviated in 

 the anterior, and placed rather beyond the middle, 

 the space beyond this band covered with a kind of 

 greyish dust. Body brown, the thorax clothed with 

 hairs of the same colour as the base of the wings, an- 

 tennae blackish, annulated with white on the under 

 side. 



This is an African insect, and seems to be con- 

 fined to the coast of Guinea. Pap. Corax of 

 Cramer (PI. 379, fig. D, E) seems to be a variety 

 of the female. The individual figured by Boisduval 

 {Spec. Gen. PL 22) appears to differ considerably 

 from Cramer's figures, as well as Fabricius' and Go- 

 dart's description: it is represented as having a 

 distinct ocellus at the base of the tail. 



