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NOCTTJIDiE, 



ochreous brown. Fore wing white mixed with red-brown and 

 fuscous ; subbasal line slight, blackish, sinuous, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line indistinct, dark slightly defined on 

 inner side by white, sinuous, sometimes produced and somewhat 

 bifid in cell ; two black discoidal points and a small spot above end 

 of cell; a large whitish spot defined by black below end of cell, its 

 outer edge excised ; the veins beyond the cell with slight dark 

 streaks ; postmedial line black slightly defined on outer side by 

 white, minutely waved, oblique from costa to vein 4, then inwardly 



Fig. 27. — Tachosa acronyctoides, S • }■ 



oblique ; subtermiual line white, dentate, oblique from costa to 

 below vein 7 ; the terminal area with slight black streaks in the 

 interspaces ; cilia fuscous intersected with whitish. Hind wing 

 reddish brown, the terminal area tinged with fuscous ; the under- 

 side brownish ochreous with the terminal area fuscous. 



Hah. S. Nigeria, Lagos, Olokemiji {Dudgeon), 1 J , 2 5 , Ilesha 

 {Humfrey), 1 $ ; Congo (Marsden), 1 c? type. Rvj^. 42-46 

 millim. 



Genus LOPHOTIDIA, nov. 



Type, L. trisema. 



Proboscis fully deTeloped ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaeliing to middle 

 of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect ; frons with transverse 

 ridge not clothed with scales, a corneous plate below it and flattened tuft of 

 scales above ; eyes large, round ; antennte of male with fascicles of cilia ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiEe moderately 

 fringed with hair, the fore tibiag slightly spined at extremity, the hind tibiae 

 spined ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with tlie cell more than half the 

 length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from just above 

 angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



