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NOCTUIDiE. 



to tornus, the rest of wing fuscous black ; cilia tipped with Avhite 

 below veiu 2. Underside of fore wing deep fuscous ; hind wing 



Fig. 36. — CaUopMsmaflavicornis, J. \. 



fuscous brown irrorated with blue-white except on apical area, the 

 inner area bhie-white. 



Hah. S. KiGERiA, Akassa (Lugard), 1 (5 type; Up. Congo 

 (WoUaston), 1 $ ; Sudan, White Nile {Dunn), 1 $ . Exj?. 52-56 

 niillim. 



Genus EGYBOLIS. 



Caloptera, Blanch. Hist. Ins. ii. p. 363 (1845), nee Guer. Dipt. Type. 



1830 vaillantina. 



EgyhoUs, Boisd. Delegorgue Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 595 (1847). vaillantina. 



Egybolia, Wlk. ill. 765 (1856) vaillantina. 



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

 to above vertex of head and broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate and thickly 

 sealed ; irons smooth with slight tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; 

 antenna of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex ; thorax thickly 

 clothed with long hair and without crests ; tibia moderately fringed with hair, 

 the fore and hind tibite not spined ; abdomen with dorsal ridges of hair on 

 basal segments but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and hardly 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 the cell about 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. 



A. Fore wing with the subbasal band broad and not interrupted vaillantina. 



B. Fore wing with the subbasal band narrow and interrupted in 



the cell dohertyi. 



