LOPHOPTERA. 175 



fnscous brown terminal band, the inner margin tinged with brown ; 

 cilia oclireous white ; the underside with some brownish suffusion 

 at middle of costa and striga on upper discocellular. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Kuinasi (Whiteside) 1 c? type; S. Nigeria , 

 Ilesha {Humphrey), 2 6,1 $ . Exjy. 32 millim. 



Genus LOPHOPTERA. 



Type. 



LopJioptera, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 54 (1852) squammigera. 



Evia, Wlk. xxvii. 89 (1863) forrinalis. 



C'iasa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool, vii. p. 165 (1864) 'pustidifera. 



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

 to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect ; frons smooth, 

 with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round; antennse of naale almost simple; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tlie 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 6 from angle of cell ; G, 7 

 form upper angle ; 8 anastomosing witii the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the costal area darker than the ground- 



colour. 

 a. Hind wing with the interspaces hyaline-white to beyond 

 tlie cell. 

 ct}. Fore wing with white fascia below the dark area 

 from base of costa aloug median nervure to beyond 



the cell squammigera. 



b^. Fore wing with faint whitish tinge below and beyond 



end of cell aleucci. 



h. Hind wing with the interspaces indistinctly semihyaline 



to beyond the cell costata. 



B. Fore wing with the costal area not darker than the 



ground-colour. 

 a. Fore wing without green mai-kings. 



fli. Hind wing hyaline- white, the terminal area black ... oncihyalca. 

 h^. Hind wing with the interspaces clear hyaline to 

 beyond the cell, the veins and terminal area dark. 

 a^' Fore wing with the basal half deep rufous with 



oblique outer edge , semirufa. 



Ir. Fore wing with the basal half not rufous. 



a^. Fore wing without white suffusion on post- 

 medial costal area, 

 a*. Hind wing with the hyaline area tinged 



with bhie abbreviata. 



b*. Hind wing with the hyaline area not tinged 

 with blue. 

 aP. Fore wing with the medial line oblique 

 to submedian fold, then bent inwards to 



inner margin litigiosa. 



b^. Fore wing with the medial line oblique 

 to submedian fold, then erect, 

 a". Fore wing with the postmedial line 



mi nutely waved hemithyris. 



¥'. Fore wing with the postmedial line 

 angled outwards below costa and 

 excurved at middle, but not waved ph^eobasis. 



