TOLN.\.. 4 / / 



discoidal bar and very indistinct medial, postmedial, and subterminal 

 lines, the postmedial line with slight white mark at discal fold and 

 the postmedial and subterminal lines with slight white marks at 

 subraediau fold. 



Hah. SiEERA. Leone {Clements), 4 c? ; S. Nigeria, Old Calabar 

 (Croynpton), 1 § , Bende (Simpson), 1 $ ; Cameroons, Mbongo, 1 5 ; 

 CoNao. .Exp>. 66-76 millim. 



7602. Tolna sypnoides. (Plate CCXVI. figs. 6 c? , 7 ? .) 



Achcsa sypnoides, B.itl. A.M. N. H. (5) ii. p. 464 (1878), c5'. 

 Ophiusa dcBdalea, Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. iii. p. 93 (1879). 

 Dysgnniu meandrica, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 469, f. 169 (1891), $. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some dark brown 

 and ochreous ; palpi, pectus, and legs oehreous tinged with red- 

 brown, the tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen grej'-brown, the 

 crests reddish brown, the ventral surface whitish tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing with the basal area and apical area to below vein 4 

 red-brown, the rest of wing white slightly irrorated Math brown ; 

 subbasal line black defined on inner side by white, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold; antemedial line strong, black, rather 

 irregularly waved, some blackish suffusion before it in the cell ; 

 small black spots at angles of cell with a blackish patch above them 

 on costa ; a faint waved brown line arising from it, excurved 

 beyond the cell, then incurved ; postmedial line black, obsolescent 

 from below vein 4 to below 2, forming a triangular spot at costa 

 defined on outer side by white, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 then waved, oblique below vein 4, a brown shade before it between 

 veins 6 and 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line whitish towards costa below which it is incurved, broadly 

 defined on inner side by black from vein 7 to below 4 and strongly 

 incurved at discal fold, then waved, below vein 4 faintly defined by 

 brown and with slight black mark before it below vein 3 ; some 

 black suffusion at apex ; a fine waved black line just before termen 

 with black points at the interspaces; cilia red-brown with fine 

 white line at base and chequered with white at tips. Hind wing 

 reddish brown with a slightly darker subterminal shade ; a faint 

 pale spot beyond the cell ; an oblique whitish bar from vein 2 to 

 termen at vein 1; an indistinct waved dark terminal line; cilia 

 Avhite with a brown line through them, faint except towards apex, 

 at middle, and towards tornus. Underside whitish tinged with 

 brown, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; fore 

 Aving with brown discoidal striga, curved postmedial line and sub- 

 terminal line angled outwards at vein 7, the area between the 

 postmedial and subterminal lines and the area beyond the sub- 

 terminal line from above vein 4 to the submedian fold brown ; 

 hind wing with faint brown discoidal bar, medial line excurved 

 below costa, curved postmedial line and waved subterminal line 

 excurved below vein 6, the area between the postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines brown to submedian fold. 



