CRYPSOTIDIA. 



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with the cell more than half the length of wing ; veins 4, 5 typically shortly 

 fetalked ; 6 fully developed from lower angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Palpi with the 3rd joint long, downturned and thickly scaled ; hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked, 5 from angle of cell. 



7369. Crypsotidia mesosema, n. sp. 



Hypoglaucith sp., Longstaif, Butterfly Hunting, pi. v. f. 6. 



c?. Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and fuscous; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous white irrorated 

 with brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing grey-white 

 suffused with red-brown and irrorated with blackish ; a subbasal 

 black striga from costa ; antemedial line blackish defined on inner 

 side by whitish, oblique, sinuous ; a blackish mark from middle of 



Fig. 30. — Crypsotidia mesoiiema, (^ . |. 



costa and some blackish suffusion in and below end of cell ; post- 

 medial line black defined on outer side by whitish, excurved and 

 minutely waved from below costa to vein 4, then retracted to lower 

 angle of cell and again excurved above inner margin ; subterminal 

 line whitish defined on inner side by fuscous, minutely dentate and 

 with dentate black marks before it above and below vein 7 ; a 

 waved black terminal line defining a series of white points ; cilia 

 white at tips. Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area brown ; 

 cilia ochreous white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with fuscous, a slight waved postmedial black line from costa to 

 discal fold, subterminal shade except towards tornus, and some 

 black points in submedian fold. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing tinged with reddish brown. 



Hab. Sudan, Khartum (Lonr/staff), 2 J type ; Be. E. Afeica, 

 Kilima'njaro (Jackson), 1 cS • E.vp- 28-30 millim. 



