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finely towards point ; orbicular paler than the wing, nearly round, 

 greyish in centre and denned by dark shading ; reniform rather narrow, 

 defined by white (indistinctly towards costa), the distal side lunular, 

 proximally produced along M ; postmedial line separating the dark- 

 brown and violet areas, sinuous, bent out at costa, curved round cell 

 and gently incurved from K 3 to hind margin; subterminal line pale, 

 sinuous, defined on each side by dentate dark marks (especially behind 

 R 2 ) ; a slight dark terminal line, thickened between the veins ; fringe 

 white with a dark line at middle and some distal dark scales. 



Hind wing grey irrorated with fuscous (especially on distal half), 

 with a slight dark discal spot and marginal line ; fringe ochreous-white 

 with a dark line at middle. 



Underside of both wings grey irrorated with brown ; a little paler 

 towards abdominal margin of hind wing ; margins and fringes as 

 above ; hind wing with a slight discal spot. 



Congo Beige: on Ruwenzori, Christmas, 1919. (T. A. Barns.) 

 One 2 . 



ACRONYCTINAE. 



Plusiopha.es gen. n. 



Proboscis fully developed ; irons with a small prominence, overhung 

 by a thick, pointed tuft of hair ; eye large, round, slightly overhung by 

 cilia ; palpus moderate, upturned against frons, the second joint a little 

 thickened with hair above and below, the third thick and blunt ; 

 $ antenna typically ciliate ; retinaculum almost concealed by hair ; 

 thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales ; abdomen dorsally clothed 

 with rough hair and with a moderately large crest on first segment ; 

 pectus, femora and tibiae hairy, the latter without spines, the spurs 

 moderate, unequal, the terminal spurs of hind tibia missing (probably 

 broken off) ; neuration of fore wing normal, the areole rather long ; 

 hind wing with E 2 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; R 3 and 

 M l from lower angle of cell, M 2 somewhat removed from angle ; wings 

 fairly broad, non-crenulate, fore wing with the distal margin vertical 

 from apex to M 1 , then incurved but without any angle. 



It is possible that this genus should be placed in the Guculliinae 

 rather than in the Acronyctinae, but as the ciliation of the eye is not 

 strong, and there is nothing in the Guculliinae to which it seems to 

 bear any relationship, I have preferred to place it in the Acronyctinae. 

 Perhaps distantly related to the American genera Ghalcopasta and 

 Neumoegenia. 



