174 NOCTUID-^. 



outer side ; a black streak on vein 2 from coll to the postmedial line, 

 •which is double, minutely dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved, with a rather dentate black mark beyond it below 

 costa ; subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being 

 paler except at apex, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules. Hind wing with 



Fig. 55. — Gigantoceras soldiiialis, cJ. }-. 



the interspaces of basal half pale, the veins and terminal half 

 fuscous ; the underside with dark discoidal lunule showing through 

 to upperside. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing wdth white fascia on inner margin from base to 

 antemedial line. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Obuassi (Berr/mann), 1 5 type erinopis ; 

 Gaboon, Ogowe E. (Good), type t d" , ? in Coll. Holland. Ex^). 

 cJ 30, ? 34-36 millim. 



6407. Gigantoceras rectilinea, n. sp. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 17.) 



Head and thorax pale green mixed with brownish grey ; palpi 

 with some brown ; froiis with black band above ; tegulse with black 

 band at base ; patagia except at base and metathorax black-brown ; 

 pectus whitish ; legs tinged with brown ; abdomen brown, the 

 ventral surface ochreous white with a black line near extremity. . 

 Fore wintr whitish suffused with pale olive-green and irrorated with 

 silvery and a few black scales; subbasal line black, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line double, 

 formed of raised black scales, almost straight, some brownish before 

 it ; reniform hardly traceable, elliptical with a bar of raised black 

 scales in centre ; a blackish striga from middle of costa and diffused 

 spot on vein 1 ; postmedial line with double dark striae from costa, 

 then almost obsolete, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved and with black points beyond it on the veins, 

 strongly angled inwards below vein 3, then oblique to inner margin ; 

 apical area red-brown defined by an oblique black streak from 

 costa to vein 6 near termen ; a faint crenulate whitish subterminal 

 line with greenish mark on it below costa, dark mark between 

 veins 3 and 2 and oblique brown bar before it below vein 2 ; the 

 veins of terminal area streaked with black; a terminal series of 

 blackish lunules slightly defined on inner side by whitish ; cilia 

 brownish white. Hind wing semihyaline whitish with broad 



