490 JTOCTUID.'E, 



Ab. 5. Fore wing with the medial area variegated with white. 



Ab. G. Fore wing with leaden grey suffusion in and below end 

 of cell and beyond lower angle of cell. 



Hah. SiERE.v Leone (Foxcroft), 1 5 type; Gold Coast, Cape 

 Coast Qastle (Hi c/Iett), 11 c? , 5 2, Aburi, Acrapong Mts. (Sir J. 

 Carter), 2 2 ', S. Nxgerta, Old Calabar (Cromjyton), 3 c? , Ilcsha 

 (Bumfre!/), 1 S , 1 $ . E.v^J. 40-56 millim. 



Genus ACHJEA. „ 



Type. 



Jck(ea, Huhn.Yerz. p. 209 (1827) meiicerfe. 



G^ma, Wlk. xiv. 13G6 (1858) ahhinaris. 



Pi'oboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tbe 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of bead and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate or long ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round; antennas of male typically ciliated; thorax clothed with 

 hair and hair-lilve scales and without crests; fore and hind tibia fringed with 

 long hair, the fore tibia3 not spined, the mid and hind tibife spined; abdomen 

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

 arched towards apex which is somewhat produced, the termen evenly curved 

 and crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to fo]-m the areola ; 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. 



Sect. I. Antennre of male bipectinate with long branches, tbe apex simple ; 

 femora and tibia tufted with scales and hair; palpi with the 2nd 

 and 3rd joints long. 



*7621. Achsea pectinicornis. 



Ophhisa pectinicornis, Beth.-Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) iii. p. 432 (1909). 



(5' . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with some yellowish 

 white ; palpi blackish at base and above ; frons with black bar 

 above; abdomen dorsally grey suffused with brown, ventrally 

 reddish ochreous irrorated with brown. Fore wing brownish 

 ochreous tinged with rufous, striated with brown and irrorated 

 with black ; a blackish subbasal band from costa to submedian 

 fold, its outer edge indented at median nervure ; an oblique 

 irregularly sinuous blackish antemedial band, excurved at median 

 nervure ; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform rufous defined 

 by blackish, narrow, constricted at middle ; postmedial line very 

 oblique from costa to vein 6, double between veins 7 and 6, some 

 whitish beyond it at costa and rufous before and beyond it below 

 vein 7, bent inwards at vein 6, then erect and with another line 

 before it from lower angle of cell to inner margin angled outwards 

 at vein 1 ; two white points beyond it on costa ; an oblique dark 

 shade from apex to vein 6 with some bluish white on it below 

 costa and an oblique subterminal series of small dark spots from it 

 to inner margin, towards which they are more distinct ; tbe 

 terminal area with a brown shade before middle ; a series of black 



