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large postmedial white lunule with dentate outer edge extending 

 fi'om vein 8 to 2 and placed on the sinuous dark postmedial line 

 which is retracted to below angle of cell. Hind wing with large 

 white lunule beyond the cell with dentate outer edge, and with 

 the oblique postmedial line rising from it ; both wings with pale 

 line at base of cilia. 



Hah. Sierra Leone {Clements). Exp. 24-28 mm. Types in 

 B.M. and Coll, Schaus. 



Genus 45. Mesocondtla. 



Mesocondyla Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p, 392. 



Eulepte Hiibn. Zutr. vi. 3. i. B. 1 (1827), non descr. 



Palpi upturned, the 3rd joint long with downturned scales in 

 front, forming a hook at its base ; maxillary palpi filiform ; 

 frons rounded ; tibiae with the outer spurs half the length of inner. 

 Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7 curved and 

 approximated to 8, 9, to which 10 also is approximated. Hind 

 wing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for a short 

 distance ; 6, 7 shortly stalked, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Fig. 45. 



Mesocondyla dardusalis, S • 



Sect. I. {Mesocondyla). Antennse of male dilated and with tufts of 

 scales at middle ; patagia short ; fore tarsi fringed with hair 

 on inner side. 



Type. (1) Mesocondyla dabdusalis Wlk. xviii. 513. S. America. 



„ stigmatalis Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1883, p. 392, 



pi. 13. f. 3, 



Sect. II. {Eulepte). Antennae of male with the basal joint im- 

 mensely dilated and bearing tufts of hair on inner side ; 

 patagia extending to middle of abdomen. 



(2) Mesocondtla cokcoebalis Hiibn. Zutr. vi. 3. i. B. 1. ff. 1-4. 



W. Indies; S. America. 

 Bot\js gastralis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 346. 

 „ peranthusalw Wlk. xviii. 610. 

 t „ ogmiusalis Wlk. xviii. 730. 

 Phalania socialis Sepp, Surinam, iii. pi. 114. 

 Botys levalis Hulst, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xiii, p. 152. 



