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rufous, the terminal area tinged with grey-brown, the area before 

 and below the antemedial line and between the postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines chocolate-brown ; antemedial line greyish, obliquely 

 curved from costa to middle of submedian fold where it is met by 

 the obliquely downcurved postmedial line ; orbicular a minute round 

 chocolate-brown spot; reniform defined by chocolate-brown, con- 

 stricted at middle ; subterminal line faint, defining the outer edge 

 of the dark area, arising from costa close to the postmedial line, 

 bent iuAvards at vein 5 to near the postmedial line, then oblique to 

 tornus ; a series of whitish points just before termen. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, the basal half paler to median nervure and vein 2 ; 

 the termen and cilia whitish towards apex. Underside pale 

 brownish grey, the basal half of both wings clothed with ochreous 

 scales except on inner areas. 



Hah. (joLD Coast, Ashanti (McDowaV), 1 d" , Kumasi ( Whiteside), 

 1 d type. Ua^j). 56 millim. 



Genus MINUCIA. 



O'phiodes, Giiea. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1841, p. 77 (riec Wagl. Kept. Type. 



1 828) lunaris. 



Minucia, Moore, Lep. Oeyl. iii. p. 159 (1884) lunaris. 



Ascalapha, Hiibn. Tent. p. 2, ined. (nee Ascalaphus, Fabr. Neiir. 



1776) lunaris. 



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

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long and oblique ; frons smooth, 

 with sharp tuft of liair abore; antennie of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with 

 hair only and with sharp dorsal ridge-like crest ; fore femora and tibiaa of 

 male fringed with long hair, the hind tibise fringed with hair on lower side, 

 the fore tibise not spined, the mid and hind tibia; spined ; abdomen with dorsal 

 ridges of hair on basal segments but without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 slightly produced and acute, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosinc 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one- 

 third 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 postmedial blackish spot on costa viscotti. 



E. Fore wing without postmedial blackish spot on costa lunaris. 



7537. Minucia viscotti. (Plate CCXIV. fig. 1.) 



PscudopMa ivisJcotti, Piing. Iris, xiv. p. 332 (1901) ; Wiskott, Iris, xriii. 

 pi. X. ff. 11, 12. 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi, frons, and 

 antenn39 red-brown ; fore and mid tibiae and the tarsi brown : 

 abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale ochreous 

 red-brown ; antemedial line indistinct, pale faintly defined on 

 inner side by brown, curved ; a brown point in middle of cell ; 

 reniform defined by a few brown scales, narrow and constricted at 

 middle : a postmedial blackish spot on costa with the whitish 



