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NOCTUID^. 



Hob. SiEREA Leone, 'Qai'k?iU-a {Fitzgerald), 1 d ; Gold Coast, 

 Bibianaha [Spurrell), 1 c? ; Nigeria, Old Calabar {Crompton, 

 Sampson), 2 d" , 2 $ , Sapele (Sampson), 3 d , 3 2 , Ilesha {Hum- 

 frey), 4 $ ; Gaboon, Ogove K,., 1 d , co-type ; Uganda, Entebbe 

 (Minchin), 1 J . ^^t^^. 60-70 millim. 



Genus PARAaAEISTA. 



Type. 

 Paragarista, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 255 (1906) albostriata. 



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

 of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd long and slightly dilated at tip ; frons 

 smooth, with tuft of hair ; eyes large, round; antennte of male minutely 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed vpith hair mixed with some scales and scale-like hairs 

 and without distinct crests ; tibite moderately fringed with hair, the fore and 

 hind tibife not spined ; abdomen clothed with rough hair at base but without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 slightly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell less than half length of wing ; veins 3, 4, 5 from lower angle ; 

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



*7385. Paragarista albostriata. 



Paragarista albostriata, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 255 (1906). 



S . Head, tegnlae, and patagia deep chocolate-brown irrorated 

 with white ; thorax orange ; palpi at base, sides of frons and 



Fig. 35. — Paragarista albostriata, d. \. 



pectus 5'ellowish white ; abdomen chocolate-brown suiTused with 

 blue, the base orange, the anal tuft yellowish white. Fore wing 



