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NOCTUID^. 



hind legs oclireous bro\^a-i ; abdomen oclareous witli some blaekisliat 

 base and some scarlet at sides. Fore wing black-brown ; a white 

 fascia on basal half of costa leaving the costal edge blackish ; an 

 oblique white line from the fascia before middle to above inner 

 margin near base ; a narrow oblique white band from the extremity 

 of the costal fascia to a crimson patch at tornus, the band with a 

 hooked black mark on its lower extremity, the crimson_ patch with 

 two small subterminal and two terminal black spots on it, the upper 

 terminal spot larger; a terminal black line with a naiTOW white 

 band before it ending at the tornal patch ; cilia brownish. Hind 

 wing crimson; a terminal black-brown band, broad at apex, narrowing 



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Fig. 2. — Colbusa eiicUcUca, cS ■ 



to tornus ; a slight black streak on inner margin above tornus. 

 Underside of fore wing with the white band extending to tornus 

 and not extending to costa. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing yellow. 



Mai. GrOLD Coast, Cape Coast Castle (Hiffletf), 1 J, Ashanti, 

 2 c? , 1 2 type; S. Nigeeia, Lagos, Olokemiji (Dudgeon), 5 S, 

 Mama {Dudgeon), 1 5, Onitsha, 1 c? , 1 ?• Exp. '60-^^ millim. 



Genus ACANTHODELTA. 



AcanthoMta, Htupsn. A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 487 (1908) 



Type. 

 distriga. 



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

 Tertex of bead and moderately scaled, the 3rd porrect ; frons smooth, with tuft 

 of hair above; eyes large, round ; antennae of male laminate; thorax clothed 

 entirely with hair and without crests ; tibife smoothly scaled, all the tibiae 

 spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing short and 

 broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; vein 3 from 

 well before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 the apex extending to well beyond tornus of fore wing, the termen crenulate ; 



