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7371. Crypsotidia conifera, n. sp. (Plate CCIII. fig. 4.) 



c? • Head black with some grey, the vertex -whitish ; thorax 

 whitish mixed with black ; legs black mixed with grey, the tarsi 

 ringed with white; abdomen brownish white with black lateral 

 streaks, the ventral surface irrorated with black. Fore wing 

 ochreoLis brown irrorated with black, a diffused black medial patch 

 from cell to inner margin, the terminal area suffused with black 

 except at costa ; antemedial and medial blackish points on costa 

 and a faint discoidal mark ; postmedial line blackish, bent outwards 

 and obsolescent below costa, excurved and minutely waved to 

 vein 4, then oblique and sinuous ; a whitish subterminal line 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of white strife defined on inner side by black. Hind wing 

 white, the termen tinged with fuscous except towards tornus ; cilia 

 tinged with fuscous at apex ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with black, the apex suffused with black, an excurved 

 postmedial line from costa to vein 7. 



2 . Paler and more ochreous. 



Ilab. N. JJ^XGERiA, Zungeru (Macjie), 1 $ ; Bk. C. Africa, 

 Raronga Distr., N. liukuru Valley (Neave), 1 cJ type. Exj). 30 

 millim. 



Genus ACANTHODICA. 



lype. 



Acanthodica, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 241 (1894) grandis. 



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

 to middle of irons and moderatelj' scaled, the 3rd minute ; frons with trans- 

 verse rounded ridge-shaped prominence ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male 

 with long fascicular.e cilia, the basal joint with large tuft of hair ; thorax 

 clotlied chiefly with scales, the prothorax with rather ridge-like crest, the 

 metathorax with depressed crest; tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the fore 

 tibite not spined, the hind tibias spined, the hind tibiae of male with the medial 

 spurs absent ; abdomen long, with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore 

 wing long and very narrow, the apex rounded, the termen slightly crenulate, 

 excised below vein 2 ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, which is sometimes 

 small with veins 7 and 10 from beyond it ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the 

 cell about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base, then approximated to it for a 

 short distance. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line single, erect and slightly 

 excurved below costa. 



a. Fore wing with the inner medial area white splendens. 



b. Fore wing with the medial area not white. 



a'. Fore wing with white apical patch peiiicilla, 



b^. Fore wing with pale brownish apical patch. 



«.^. Fore wing with some green on median nervure and 

 svibterminal area. 

 d^. Fore wing with the inner medial area not dark 



purple-brown cobra. 



b^. Fore wing with the inner medial area dark purple- 

 brown hages. 



