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it on inner half, sinuous, oblique to submedian fold, then inwardly- 

 oblique ; a minute black point in middle of cell and diffused brown 

 discoidal spot ; postmedial line slight, dark, faintly defined on outer 

 side by brown suffusion, excurved below costa and at middle, 

 incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; subterminal line formed 

 by black striae defined on outer side by slight grey spots except 

 towards costa, excurved to discal fold, then incurved to vein 3; a 

 series of slight dark points just before termen. Hind wing dull 

 reddish brown, the terminal half slightly darker ; cilia brownish 

 white. Underside pale greyish, the terminal areas broadly suffused 

 with brown, in male the whole hind wing clothed with bright 

 ochreous androconia, the costa narrowly brown. 



Ab. 1. Tore wing darker especially the postmedial area, tlie 

 subterminal line with prominent black marks on its inner edge 

 above and below vein 6 and some greenish grey on its oiiter edge 

 at submedian fold. 



Hah. W. Afkica, 1 J ; S, Nigeria, Ilesha (Ilumfrei/), 1 $, 

 Afikpo {Simpson), 1 $ ; S. Nigeria, Lokoja (Dudgeon), 1 2 '■> 

 Gaboon, Ogovell.,1 $ co-type; N.E, Rhodesia, Kulungwisi Distr. 

 {Neave), 1 $ . Exp. 60-68 millim. 



7583. Anua despecta. (Plate CCXV. fig. 16.) 



]\linucia despecta, Holl. Psyche, vii. \>. 70, pi. iii. f. 1 (1894). 



2 . Head and thorax red-brown ; pectus whitish tinged with 

 red-brown ; palpi, legs, and abdomen grey-brown, the last ventrally 

 whitish. Eore wing red-brown with slight dark irroration ; sub- 

 basal line brown, oblique, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line' dark brown, inwardly oblique, straight ; reniform defined on 

 inner side by a straight brown line, very faintly defined and excised 

 on outer side; postmedial line dark browi], obtusely angled out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique ; subterminal line slight, brown 

 with small black spot on it above vein 7 and conical spot defined on 

 outer side by whitish below vein 7, incurved and with slight dark 

 points on it between veins 5 and 2 ; a crenulate blackish line just 

 before termen. Hind wing fuscous brown, the terminal area 

 darker; the termen and cilia white from apex to vein 4 ; a slight 

 waved dark line before termen ; cilia red-brown from vein 4 to 

 tornus. Underside of fore wing grey-white, the inner and terminal 

 areas fuscous ; hind wing grey-white with a broad fuscous sub- 

 terminal shade. 



Huh. S. Nigeria, Sapele {Sampson), 1 $ ; Gaboon, Ogove E. 

 Exp. 54 millim. 



