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3rd segment black, the ventral surface wuitish. Fore wing brown 

 suffused with grey ; subbasal line double, black, curved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemeiial line double, irregularl}'- dentate ; 

 claviforra and orbicular represented by tufts of raised black scales 

 at their extremities ; reniform rather incompletely defined by 

 raised black scales ; medial line black, oblique and slightly sinuous 

 to submedian fold, bent inwards to inner margin; postmedial lino 

 double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved 

 and filled in by minute whitish lunules, incurved at dJscal fold and 

 below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa and a series of 

 small pale and blackish spots, incurved below vein 4, the two black 

 spots below costa more distinct ; a minutely waved greyish sub- 

 terminal line with slight black streaks beyond it in the interspaces, 

 the black streak below costa more prominent; a terminal series of 

 black striae defined on inner side by whitish ; cilia with two slight 

 blackish lines through them. Hind wing black-brown, the cell 

 and interspaces below and beyond it hyaline, the inner area with 

 hyaline streaks above and below vein 1 to beyond middle; cilia 

 white at tips ; the underside with dark bar from middle of costa 

 and indistinct postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing darker brown. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous, the medial area 

 paler. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with white points before the tufts of scales 

 representing the claviform, the orbicular and reniform tilled in 

 with white. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing with band of black suffusion beyond the 

 antemedial line. 



Ab. 5. Fore wing rufous to the medial line. 



Hah. S. Leone (Bartlett), 1 J ; Gold Coast, Kumasi (Whiteside), 

 1 $ ; S. Nigeria, Lagos {Dudgeon), 2 5 ; Br. £. Africa, Eb Urru 

 (Betton), 1 j, ISfeugia (Crawsliay), 2 (S ; Br. C. Africa, Chiromo 

 (Nectve), 1 c? ; IN.E. IIuodesia, E. Luangwa Distr., Petauke 

 (Neave), 1 d' , 1 $ ; Transvaal, White 11. {Ooolce), 1 c? ; Natal, 

 Durban {Leigh), 2 cJ ; Cape Colony, Trauskei {Miss F. Barrett), 

 1 5 ; Madagascar, Foret (Jl Ambre {Meade- Waldo), 1 (S • Kvp. 21- 

 30 millim. 



6415. Lophoptera hemithyris. (Plate CLXXVIII. tig. 22.) 



Stictoptera hemithyris, Ilmpsu. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 534 (1905). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown mixed with some 

 grey; pectus mostly grey; abdomen with the dorsal crests dark, 

 the ventral su]'faco whitish. Fore wing dark reddish brown slightly 

 tinged with grey, the basal area rather darker, the discal area 

 paler ; a dark elliptical subbasal patch defined by brown from 

 costa to median nervure; a slightly waved antemedial line with 

 striga of raised black scales beyond it from subcostal nervure to 

 submedian fold ; a medial line oblique from costa to submedian 



