LOPHOTIDIA. HYPOTACHA . 



7364. Lophotidia trisema, n. sp. 



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(^ . Head, tegulse, and a bar on prothorax black mixed with 

 brownish grey, the rest of thorax whitish mixed with brown ; 

 pectus ochreous white ; legs black mixed with ochreous white, the 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing 

 whitish tinged in parts with ochreous and brown and irrorated 

 with black, the costal area browner to end of cell, the inner area 

 except at base and the terminal area except at apex suffused with 

 blackish ; a slight subbasal black spot defined on outer side by red- 

 brown on costa ; aritemedial line black defined on inner side by 

 red-brown and towards inner margin by whitish, oblique, sinuous ; 

 a slight black discoidal lunule with oblique blackish mark above it 

 from costa, a somewhat figure-of-eight shaped pale mark defined by 

 black before it from discal to submedian folds with a slight dark 



Fig. 28. — Lophotidia trisema, c? . { . 



line from it to inner margin ; postmedial line double, dark filled in 

 with whitish and with whitish suffusion before it, excurved and 

 minutely dentate, the outer line with a blackish mark at costa and 

 a dentate black mark below vein 7 with an elliptical ochreous 

 mark above it extending to termen ; subterminal line slight, white, 

 waved, interrupted at the ochreous mark ; a waved black terminal 

 line with short black streaks before it below veins 7 and 6. Hind 

 wing white, the termen and base of cilia brown except towards 

 tornus ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hah. Be. E. Afbica, Kirbehs (Betton), 1 ^ type. Exp. 28 

 raillim. 



Genus HYPOTACHA, nov. 



Type, H. retracta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect ; frons smooth 



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