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abdomen grey-brown, the hair on dorsum rufous. Fore wing red- 

 brown tinged in parts with grey and irrorated and striated with 

 black ; traces of a blackish subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; 

 traces of a diffused antemedial line ; a minute black point in middle 

 of cell ; traces of diffused oblique medial and postmedial bands 

 obsolescent towards costa ; a semi-elliptical violaceous white patch 

 slightly irrorated with black on costa from beyond middle to near 

 apex, with traces of two diffused dark subterminal lines from it to 

 inner margin, filled in with greyish between veins 6 and 2. Hind 

 wing scarlet, the hair on inner margin brown ; a black fascia above 

 medial part of vein 1 ; an oblique black patch beyond the cell 

 between veins 7 and 5 followed by an excurved line to vein 4 and 

 a rounded patch between veins 4 and 2 ; a black terminal band 

 from costa to below vein 2 and a patch at vein 1, the inner edge of 

 the band slightly sinuous and angled inwards at vein 2 ; the termen 

 and cilia red-brown tinged with scarlet. Underside of fore wing 

 with the disk scarlet, blackish fasciae on costa and in subraedian fold 

 to beyond middle, a diffused obliquely curved black postmedial band 

 from below costa to submedian fold ; hind wing brownish white, 

 the inner area scarlet, a series of black points in discal fold and of 

 black scales in the interspaces of terminal half. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Ashanti (McDowall), 1 J ; Cameroons, 1 J . 

 Ex^:). 106 millim. 



Genus MINIOPHYLLODES. 



Type. 



Miniophi/llodes, de Joan. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912, p. 331 aurora 



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

 to vertex oC head and rather broadly fringed with hair aboTe and below, the 

 3rd long, fringed with hair above and below and spatulate at extremity ; frons 

 with large pointed tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male with long 

 bristles and cilia; thorax clothed with hair only and without crests ; fore tibia; 

 moderately fringed with hair, the mid and hind tibies smoothly scaled, all the 

 tibiffi spilled ; abdomen with the basal segments dorsally clothed with rough 

 hair but without crests. Fore wing with the costa highly arched, the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crennlate, the inner margin highly 

 arched ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 

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

 with the cell about one-half length of wing ; vein 3 from just before angle ; 

 6 fully developed i'rom just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



*7512. Miniophyllodes aurora. 



Miniophyllodes aurora, de Joan. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912, p. 331. 



cJ . Head and thorax fiery red mixed with some yellow and with 

 a brown dorsal streak ; antennae, palpi, pectus and legs grey-brown ; 

 abdomen fiery red, the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing 

 yellow suffused with fiery red and with numerous pale yellow striae, 

 the terminal half sufi"used with grey -brown, redder towards costa, 

 the veins and costa greyish ; a diffused blackish brown medial 

 line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell where it is angled 



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