412 NOCTUID.^O. 



and black points on medial part of termen ; cilia white tinged vrith 

 brown, fuscous towards apex and tornus. Underside of both win^s 

 whitish, a medial black band difl'used on disk of fore wing, the 

 terminal area broadly black. 



II ah. Br. INT. Guinea, Mt. Kebea {Pratt), 2 S iype. Exi?. 34 

 millim. 



6748. Blenina chloromelana. (Plate CLXXXV. fig. 7.) 



Aoontia chloromelan.a, Mab. Ann. Soc. Enfc. Fr. (6) x. p. 39 (1890). 

 Eliocrcea chloroptila, HoU. Psyche, vii. p. 68 (1894). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with greenish grey ; 

 palpi with the 2nd joint black above ; pectus and legs whitish 

 tinged with rufous ; abdomen greenish grey suffused with rufous, 

 the ventral area whitish. Fore wing red-brown suffused with 

 blackish, the basal half pale green irrorated with white leaving the 

 costal edge and base of inner margin rafous, sometimes with 

 blackish patch on inner margin before the medial line ; a dentate 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an oblique sinu.ous 

 medial line ; two obliquely placed black discoidal points with 

 paler patch beyond them ; postmedial line irregularly dentate, 

 oblique from costa to vein 4, angled inwards on vein 2, then 

 excurved to inner margin, some white and green suffusion beyond 

 it on costal area ; a dark subterminal line, strongly angled outwards 

 at vein 7, excurved and minutely dentate at middle, bent inwards 

 at vein 2, then oblique to near tornus, some white beyond it 

 between vein 4 and submedian fold ; cilia brown intersected with 

 orange on apical half, whitish towards tornus. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown with a reddish tinge ; cilia yellow intersected with brown 

 from below apex to vein 2. Underside of fore wing fuscous brown, 

 the inner area whitish, some grey on costa from middle to near 

 apex, traces of a line from costa to lower angle of cell ; hind wing 

 whitish suffused with reddish brown leaving the costal area paler, 

 a diffused medial line from costa to submedian fold, a blackish 

 terminal band from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. SiEERA Leone (Bartlett), 1 $ ; S, Nigeria, Old Calabar 

 (CromjJton), 1 d" , 1 § , Ilesha (Humj^Jirejj), 1 $ ; Gaboon, Ogove II., 

 type t cJiloroptila in Coll. Holland. Exp^ 42 millim. Type f in 

 Coll. Mabille. 



*6749. Blenina smaragdina. (Plate CLXXXV. fig. 8.) 



Blenina smaragdiJia, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 223 (1906). 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with yellow-green ; palpi 

 with the basal half black, the 3rd joint with black bands at base 

 and tips ; frons with lateral black spots ; antennae black ; tegulae 

 black at tips, the pafcagia black on outer edge and at tips, the meta- 

 thoracic crests with some black ; pectus and legs white, the tibiae 

 and tarsi with black bands; abdomen white suffused with brown, 

 the crests black. Pore wing yellow-greeu, the terminal area 



