DERMALEIPA. LAGOPTERA. 413 



Hah. Sene&al; Gold Coast (Dudyeon), 1 c? , Bibianaha (Spurrell), 

 2 c? , Ashanti (Graham), 1 c5' ; S. Nigeria, Old Calabar (Crornpton), 

 1 2, Sapele (Sampson), 3d, 1 ?, Hesha (Humfrey), I 2: 

 N.E. Ehodesia, Lake Eangweolo (Neave), 1 S. Eocp. 46-62 

 millim. Guenee's plate 21, fig. 5 represents Mods remigioides. 



7524. Dermaleipa inetaphaea, n. sp. (Plate CCXII. fig. 5.) 



2 . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the anal tuft yellowish. Fore wing purplish grey 

 irrorated with fuscous, the costal area suffused with reddish brown ; 

 subbasal line whitish, oblique, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line whitish defined on outer side by brown, very oblique ; 

 a blackish point in middle of cell ; reniform brown slightly defined 

 by whitish, narrow ; postmedial line whitish defined on outer side 

 by brown, very oblique and ending at tornus towards which it is 

 slightly excurved, a slight fuscous mark beyond it in discal fold ; 

 siibterminal line whitish defined on outer side by black poiuts on 

 the veins, slightly sinuous; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the costal area, termen, and cilia tinged 

 with ochreous ; a more or less prominent narrow oblique ochreous 

 post-medial band from below costa to submedian fold. Underside 

 brownish ochreous, the fore wing with fuscous discoidal lunule and 

 indistinct diffused fuscous subterminal band obsolete towards costa 

 and inner margin. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the reniform filled in wifh black. 



Ilab. Gold Coast, Tarkwa (Justice),! $, Kumasi (Whiteside), 

 2 2 ; S. Nigeria, Sapele (Sampson), 1 2 , Olokemeji (Dudgeon), 

 1 2 type. E.r^p. 56-62 raiHim. 



Genus LAGOPTEKA. 



Jype. 

 Thi/as, Hiibn. Samnil. Exot. Schrnett. ii. Index, p. 4 (1806), non 



descr hnvesta. 



Lagoptera, G-uen. Noct. iii. p. 223 (1852) honesta. 



Artena, Wlk. xiv. 1388 (1858) submira. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the second joint reaching to 

 about vertex of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd short or moderate ; 

 froiis smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely vyith hair and vpithout crests ; fore and hind tibijB of male 

 fringed with long hair, the fore tibiae not spined, the mid tibiae spioed, tlie 

 hind tibiae spined betvreeu the medial and terminal spurs only ; abdomen with 

 dorsal ridges of hair on basal segments. Fore wing with the costa highly 

 arched towards apex which is somewhat produced and acute, the termen 

 evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and .5 from near angle of cell ; 

 from Tipper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of wing; vein 3 

 from near angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only ; the underside in male clothed 

 with silky androc )nia. 



