724: LT.-COL. J. M. FAWCETT OX 



alHlonien. nnd fore wing mouse-colour, tlie brinds dark brown 

 shot with a coppeiy iridescence. Costal area dark brown from 

 base to middle, this brown patch extending through base of cell 

 to submedian interspace and being outwardly defined (except 

 along the costa) by the subbasal line ; two fine black medial 

 lines. Postmedial line I'epresented by a broad brown band angled 

 outwards at vein 3, from costa to inner mai'gin. Reniform 

 indistinct, defined by a brown line. A double black subterminal 

 line, oblique outwardly fiom costa to termen below apex, then 

 inwardly oblique to inner margin. These lines are succeeded by 

 a brown shade from vein 6 to tornus. A marginal dark brown 

 line. Cilia, greyish. Hind wing fuscous grey. Underside of 

 both wings fuscous with ochreous margins. 



Habitat. Kumasi, Ashanti, 1 5 (^-1. Norris). Exp. 64 mm. 



This form is neai-est to Calpe emarginata Fabr., from India. 



There is one specimen, as yet unnamed, in the B. M. Collection. 



Genus Lecasia, nov. 



Type, L. othello, sp. n. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi long, reaching well above 

 vertex of head, second joint densely scaled ; legs without hair, 

 the middle pair with two spurs, the hind pair with three. 

 Antennae filiform. Fore wing with apex more or less acute, 

 outer margin evenly curved. A tuft of long hairs below base of 

 cell on underside. Abdomen without crests. Veins 3 and 4 

 from lower end of cell, 5 from just above it; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 8 and 9 stalked near apex of wing. 



186. Lecasia othello, sp, n. (PI. I. fig. 4.) 



Descr'qjtion. — S- Vertex of head, palpi, and tegulse orange- 

 ferruginous ; thorax and abdomen fuscous. Both wings fuscous 

 black, thickly irrorated with pale ochreous atoms except imme- 

 diately before the subterminal line, where the irro ration is 

 sparse, giving the appearance of a black subterminal band on 

 the fore wing. Subbasal, ante- and postmedial lines obsolete. 

 Orbicidar represented by a minute whitish spot; renifoim with 

 a white spot in its lower lobe. Subterminal line represented by 

 an irregular row of seven white spots. Hind wing with faint 

 indications of a subterminal line ; cilia fuscous. Underside 

 fuscous irrorated with ochreous. 



$ . Larger and much browner in coloration. Postmedial 

 line distinct, angled sharply inwards on vein 3, below the di^co- 

 cellular spot, and thence straight to inner margin. The spots 

 of subterminal line obsolescent and foinied into an ii regular 

 indistinct ochreous subterminal band. Hind wing with an 

 ochreous subterminal band. Otherwise as in male. 



Habitat. Kedai, 19th Nov. 1911, 1 6. Durban, Natal, 18th 

 Dec. 1899, 1 $ . Exp., 6 40, $ 42 mm. 



