528 NOCTUIDJ!;. 



6900. Aiteta escalerai. (Plate CLXXXVII. fis'. 27.) 



Aiieta cscahrai, Klieil, Mem. Soc. Espan. i. p. 494 (190U). 



$ . Head violaceous grey -brown, the antennoe with the outer 

 side of basal joint white ; thorax deep sap-green ; pectus and legs 

 violaceous brown, the fore coxte fiery red; abdomen violaceous grey 

 with whitish segmental lines, dorsally with some fulvous red hair 

 and the basal crest grey, ventrally red. Fore wing violaceous grey 

 suffused with chocolate-brown especially between lower angle of 

 cell and tornus ; the basal inner area deep sap-green ; an indistinct 

 curved minutely waved dark antemedial line ; a black-brown patch 

 on costa beyond middle with an indistinct oblique line from it to 

 inner margin ; a slight piinctiform dark subterminal line, oblique 

 to vein 6, then incurved and ending on termen at vein 3 ; the 

 apical part of termen and cilia black-brown. Hind wing yellow 

 tinged with red. Underside of fore wing pale red; hind wing 

 3'ellow, the apical area tinged with red. 



Hah. S. Nigeria, Lagos, Ebute Meta (Boar/), 1 $ ; Spanish 

 Guinea, Biafra, Cabo de San Juan. i?.v/). 28 niillira. 



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6901. Aiteta paralella, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXVII. fig. 28.) 



5 . Head and thorax chocolate-red ; pectus and legs with some 

 whitish ; abdomen pinkish red. Fore wing pinkish grey irrorated 

 with dark brown, the apical area ochreous tinged with reddish 

 brown, broad at costa and narrowing to a point at vein 3 ; an oblique 

 pale antemedial line with some chocolate-brown suffusion beyond it; 

 an oblique pale line from costa beyond middle to termen at vein 2, 

 some chocolate-brown suffusion before it, widening at middle and 

 some beyond it wider at costa and with rather dentate outer edge ; 

 an indistinct maculate brown subterminal line, incurved below 

 costa and at vein 5 and ending on termen at vein 3 ; a terminal 

 series of brown stride. Hind wing orange-red. Underside orange- 

 red, the apical area of fore wing paler. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Kuraasi (Whiteside), 1 5 tvpe. E.vp. 

 30 millim, 



6902. Aiteta meterythra. (Plate CLXXXVII. fig. 29.) 



Aiteta metenjtla-a, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 593 (1905). 



cJ . Head and thorax deep rufous ; fore tibiae and tarsi and mid 

 and hind tibiae streaked with rufous, the fringe of very long hair 

 on hind tibiae tinged with fuscous ; abdomen orange-red, the base 

 and extremity of dorsum tinged with brown. Fore wing deep 

 rufous slightly suffused with grey except on medial area and with 

 slight dark irroration ; antemedial line defined by grey on inner 

 side, outwardly oblique, almost straight ; a slight blackish point in 

 cell towards extremily and blackish discoidal bar ; postmedial line 

 defined by greyish on outer side with some deeper rufous suffusion 



