GIGANTOCERAS. 



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extremities ; abdomen ochreous brown with the genital tufts 

 whitish. Pore wing greyish suffased with sap-green and brown ; 

 subbasal line indistinctly double with black points on its inner 

 side, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double with black strise 

 from costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved; medial line slightly waved, with blackish spot on it above 

 vein 1 ; two black discoidal points ; postmedial line double, dentate 



Fig. 51. — Gigantoceras geo7netroptera, S . \. 



and produced to black points on the veins, excurved from costa to 

 vein 3, then bent iiiwards ; subterminai line grey defined on inner 

 side by black-brown, minutely waved, angled inwards below costa, 

 at discoidal fold, and vein 2, with short black streaks beyond it on 

 veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2 ; a terminal series of small brown lunules defined 

 by a waved silvery grey line. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 red-brown, an indistinct dark discoidal patch, the terminal area 

 fuscous brown ; cilia whitish ; the underside paler except the 

 discoidal patch and terminal area. 



Hah. Gaboon, OgoweE. ((?oo J), typefc? in Coll. Holland. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



.Sect. II. Frons normal, the eyes not approximated. 



A. Fore wing with the anteraedialline curved and waved solaiidalis, 



B. Fore wing with the antemedial line almost straight, not 



waved , recti/iiica. 



6406. Gigantoceras solstitialis. 



Gigantoceras solstitialis, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 549, pi. 21. f. 9 (1893). 

 Stictoptera crinopis, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 533 (1905). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey ; frons deep 

 black ; tegulee ochreous at base bounded by a deep black line, then 

 greenish grey ; metathorax with slight black crest, pectus whitish ; 

 legs very long, the tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen with the 

 slight dorsal crests dark. Fore wing green suffused with brown 

 and irrorated with black, the basal, inner, postmedial and apical 

 areas darker, the discal area paler ; subbasal line double, oblique, 

 black, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, curved, 

 minutely waved; orbicular rather U-shaped; reniform concave 

 towards base and with brown central line forming a spot at lower 



