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near base, the area beyond it, and the submedian interspace with 

 rubbed a^jpoarance ; subbasal line represented by slight double 

 stria) from costa lilled in with grey ; antemedial line with two 

 oblique stria3 from costa and oblique dark bar to the lobe on inner 



Fig. 36. — Marathyssa cuneata, S. \. 



margin with white bar beyond it ; reniform an ill-defined luiii^le 

 with rufous tuft of scales at upper angle of cell ; postmedial line 

 faint, oblique, waved, from costa to vein 6, defined by grey on inner 

 side; the terminal half of inner area with some grey and blackish 

 8tria3 ; some obscure dark points just before termeu and a fine ter- 

 minal line. Hind wing semihyaline whitish, the veins and terminal 

 area sufi^used wdth brown ; some dark striae on inner margin towards 

 tornus and a rufous mark at extremity of vein 2 ; cilia whitish ; 

 the underside with two black discoidal points, traces of a curved 

 medial line and a difi^used subterminal band. 



$ . Fore wing with the rubbed appearance confined to the 

 extremity of cell. 



Hob. Gold Coast, Aburi (Johnson), 1 J , 1 $ ; Be. E. Afkica, 

 Athi-ya-Mawe [Betton), 1 cJ type, 'Njoro {Chohnleij), 2 $; Uganda, 

 Entebbe (Minchin), 2 J , 2 § ; Mashonaland, Umtali (Marshall, 

 Dohhie), 2d, 3 $; Transvaal, White K. (CooJce), 1 $. Eaj). 

 30-34 millim. 



6305. Marathyssa albidisca. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 9.) 



Eutelia albidisca, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 385 (1905). 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous irrorated with Avhite and 

 a few black scales ; metathoracic crest white and rufous ; tarsi 

 ringed with white; abdomen with subdorsal tufts of -white hair at 

 base and white patch on terminal segment, the crests dark, the 

 ventral surface whitish. Fore wing greyish fuscous irrorated with 

 white, the cell and discal area pure white ; a curved black ante- 

 medial line bent outwards to inner margin ; a curved black medial 

 line interrupted in cell ; a discoidal lunule and striga beyond upper 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line represented by a black point on costa, 

 a black striga from below costa to vein 5 and an indistinctly double 

 sinuous line from cell to inner margin ; subterminal line slight, 

 white, irregularly dentate, excurved from below costa to vein 6 ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white, the ter- 

 minal area fuscous, broadly so at costa, narrowing to tornus ; the 



