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Avith reddisli brown and irrorated with brown ; antemedial line 

 hardly traceable, oblique, sinuous, a black point before it above 

 inner margin ; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform faintly 

 defined by brown and with faint curved brown striga in centre ; 

 traces of an oblique sinuous brown line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line arising from vein 7 below apex and 

 oblique to inner margin, red-brown defined on inner side by pale 

 oehreous; a faint slightly waved oblique grey subterminal hne 



Fig. I'd.— Mods frvgalis, S- 



with a series of black points at the veins ; a faint oblique dark 

 shade from apex; a fine waved dark terminal line; cilia with 

 brown line at middle except towards tornus. Hind wing greyish 

 suffused with brown ; a brown postmedial line slightly excurved at 

 diseal fold ; a double diffused subterminal line expanding into 

 a diffused patch on apical area; a sHght brown terminal line; 

 cilia with a brown line at middle except towards tornus; the 

 underside silky grey-brown "with a fine dark terminal line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with black suffusion above middle of vein 1 

 and beyond the postmedial line. 



Hah. S. Nigeria, Lagos, Ebute Meta (Bociff), 1 d , 1 ? , Old 

 Calabar (Cockburn, Crompfon), 3 $, Sapele (Sampson), 2 6 

 N. Nigeria, Zungeru (Simpson), 1 6 ; Congo (Gurror), 1 6 

 Up. Egypt ; Sudan, Port Sudan (Mrs. Waterfield), 1 c? , 1 $ 

 Br. C. Africa, Mlangi Boma (Neave), 1 $, Fort Maguire 

 (Neave), 2 6 , Matope (de Jersey), 1 6 , Ruo Valley (Neave), 

 2 2 , Lr. Shire Valley (Neave), 2 c?, 1 $ ; N.E. Rhodesia, 

 Luangwa R. (Neave), 1 6 ; Natal, Durban (GoocJi, Clark, 

 Leigh), 1 6,2 $ ; Madagascar, EUongo (Bartlett), 1 $ ; 

 Comoro Is., Mayotta (Meade -Waldo), 2 $ ; Mauritius 

 (Manders), 1 ? ; Aden (Yerlury), 1 6 , Shaik Othman (O. 



