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prothorax with a bar, the patagia with an oblique stripe at 

 base ; pectus and legs gre)', the pectus in front yellow tinged 

 with crimson, the femora and fore tibiae in front"^ tinged with 

 crimson- abdomen crimson, the extremity greyish, the ventral 

 surface whitish tinged with yellow and crimson. Fore wing 

 orange-yellow, usually more or less suffused with crimson, and 

 more or less thickly mottled with red-brown ; a more or less 

 distinct oblique dark streak from middle of costa to termen at 

 vein 2 with traces of an oblique line from it at median nervure 

 to inner margin ; small white spots defined by black on upper 

 and lower discocellulars and a spot beyond lower angle of cell 

 which is either round, elliptical, or rather triangular ; traces of a 

 curved line beyond the cell, a postmedial line, and of a subterrainal 











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Fig. 91. — Mhiiodes discolor, (^ 



line excurved below vein 7 and at middle; cilia dark brown. 

 Hind wing crimson, the cilia fulvous yellow, grey-brown towards 

 tornus. Underside of fore wing crimson, the terminal area broadly 

 yellow, the costa and termen mottled with purplish fuscous ; hind 

 wing jellowish striated with purplish fuscous, the inner area 

 crimson with some fuscous in submedian fold. 



Hah. SiEKRA Leone, 1 c? , 2 § ; Gold Coast {Johnston), 1 (^ , 

 Ashanti, Obuassi (Oraham), 1 § ; S. Nigeria, Lagos {Straclian), 

 1 2 , Ebute Meta (Boag), 1 5 , Old Calabar {Cockhum, Cromplon), 

 1 c? , 2 2 , Sapele (Sampson), 3 5 , Ilesha (Humfrei/), i 2 5 

 Uga>^da, Ketoma (Daggett), 1 2 '■> LoKireuKSE S. ArracA ( JVooIli- 

 croft), 1 $; Natal, Durban. A'.r^?. 82-0f> millim. 



