rLUSIOCALI'lO. — UYI'ODKVA. 



599 



scaling before it ; the scale-tooth at tonius tipped with dark 

 brown. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown, the fringe 

 of thick hair on inner margin dark browu ; cilia whiter at tips. 

 Hah. Madagascar (Saahnilller), 1 J . Kv/i. 32 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing of male without I'ringe of long liair on inner urea. 



7010. Plusiocalpe pallida. 



riusiocal-pe pallida, PIoll. Psyclie, vii. p. 29, ])1. 1. f. 1 (189t). 



Head and teguloe pale rufous, the latter tipped with white; 

 palpi browner at sides ; tliorax white faintly tinged with brown 

 and irrorated with a few brown scales ; pectus and legs ochreous 

 tinged with brown ; abdomen ochreons white dorsally suffused 

 with brown. Eore wing silky white tinged with browu and 

 sparsely irrorated with brown scales ; an indistinct oblique sinuous 

 brown anteniedial line strongly excurved below the coll ; post- 

 medial line brown, oblique to vein 0, inwardly oblique from vein 5 



Fig. 240. — IHusloculpe pallida, J. J. 



to submcdian fold near the ajitemedial line, then excurved above 

 and below vein 1 on which it is angled inwards ; an indistinct 

 brownish subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle 

 and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds. Hind wing 

 ochreous white suffused with brown especially on terminal area ; 

 cilia with a pale line at base. Underside of fore wing brown, 

 the costa ochreous white on terminal half; hind wing ochreous 

 Avhite. 



lldh. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar {liiiiherford, Cromjtton), 2 c? , 1 $ , 

 Sapele (/S'amjwoM), 1 c5' ; N. Nigeria, Dekina (A/Vu^^), 1 c? ; Gaboon, 

 Ogovc 11., 1 $ co-type ; Uganda, Entebbe {Mhwkin), 1 J . Exp. 

 tJO millim. 



Genus HYPODEVA. 



Tjpe. 

 Hypodeva, HoU. Psjche, vii. p. 27 (1804) barbata. 



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

 of head and rather slenderly scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennae of male ciliated ; tliorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, 

 tlie pro- and metathorax with spreading crests, the ])atagia clothed witli rough 

 curlcd-upwards spatulate scales; pectus clothed with long hair, (lie tibiic 

 moderately I'ringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal 



