618 NOCTUIDJE. 



7046. Neonegeta xanthobasis. (Plate CXC. fig. 11.) 



Ariola xantJiohasis, Hmpan. A. M. N. II. (7) xvi. p. 601 (1905). 



S . Head and thorax pale yellow ; palpi, tegnlse, except at 

 middle, and metatliorax tinged with rufous; pectus whitish, legs 

 mostly dark brown ; abdomen fuscous brown, ochreous at base, the 

 claspors large, white at sides, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 with the basal area pale yellow bounded by a curved, rather diffused 

 brilliant silver line from costa before middle to middle of inner 

 margin, the costa tinged with rufous ; the rest of wing uniform very 

 deep chocolate-brown. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown ; the 

 imderside pale, the costal and terminal areas broadly suffused with 

 fuscous, leaving a diffused whitish patch on costal area before 

 apex. 



$ . Pectus and legs more ochreous ; hind wing with a slight 

 rufous tinge. 



Hab. S. jSTigekia, Akassa {Lugard), 1 S type, Sapele (Scwijyson), 

 1 $ . Kvp. 24 millim. 



7047. Neonegeta atriflava, n. sp. (Plate CXC. fig. 12.) 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi and antennae, except 

 basal joint, fuscous ; tegulae and a patch on metathorax greenish 

 black ; fore tibiae and tarsi fuscous, the mid aud hind tibiae tinged 

 with fuscous at base : abdomen fuscous with the basal crest and 

 ventral surface ochreous Avhite. Fore wing white tinged with 

 ochreous yellow ; a triangular greenish-black patch at base of costa 

 and some fuscous on inner margin near base ; a broad greenish- 

 black medial band, its inner edge incurved at middle, its outer edge 

 slightly excurved ; a broad terminal black-brown band with a 

 piirple gloss, its inner edge incurved and narrowing to tornus ; 

 cilia with a cupreous tinge towards tornus. Hind wing ochreous 

 white suffused with fuscous, the costal area and postmedial 

 area to submedian fold not suffused ; cilia whitish at tips ; the 

 imderside ochreous white with a brownish mark below middle of 

 costa, the terminal area suffused with brown from apex to vein 2. 



IJab. Gold Coast, Kumasi {Whiteside), 1 d* type. Ed2). 

 24 millim. 



*7048. Neonegeta zelia. (Plate CXC. fig. 13.) 



Acontia sella, Druce, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 686 ; Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 144, pi. 1. 

 f. 20. 



S . Head and thorax white ; palpi ochreous ; antennae brown ; 

 tegula3 yellow-brown with a silvery gloss ; legs tinged with brown ; 

 abdomen white tinged with ochreous except at base. Fore wing 



