620 NocTuiD.^!;, 



■white lines, the area beyond it white shading into golden bronze 

 on terminal area ; an indistinct, rather maculate subterminal line, 

 unusually remote from termen, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 inwards in discal and submedian folds and excurved at middle. 

 Hind wing pale golden bronze. Underside of fore wing pale golden 

 bronze with the inner area whitish. 



5 . .Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas much 

 browner. 



Hah. S. NiGEEiA, Lagos (Boag), 1 cf , Old Calabar (Crompton), 

 1 c? type, Akassa (Lujard), 1 c? , Bapele (SamjJson), 2 2 • ^^i). 

 28 millim. 



7051. Neonegeta pollusca. 



Leocyma pollusca, Scbans, Lep. Sierra Leone, p. 35, pi. 2. f. 12 (1893). 



5 . Head white tinged with brown ; thorax and abdomen 

 whitish suffused with brown. Fore wing pale violaceous grej-- 

 brown ; a fine straight oblique dark antemedial line ; a black 

 point at upper angle of cell and minute white spot at lower angle ; 

 postmedial line fine, dark, erect to vein 6, then oblique ; a sub- 

 terminal series of small obscure blackish spots ; a fine white line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown ; a fine white line at base 

 of cilia; the underside whitish tinged with brown. 



Hah. Sierra. Leone ; Gold Coast, Ajinah {Dudgeon), 1 $ . Exp. 

 24 millim. 



Genus METALEPTINA. „, 



Type. 



Metcdeptina, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 650 (1893) oiigribasis. 



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

 of head and moderately iringed with scales in front, the 3rd long; frons 

 smooth with ridge of scales above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely wilh scales and without crests, the patagia 

 typically with thick fringe of scales at extremity; tibias of male witli thick 

 fringe of hair, the hind tibite greatly dilated and with large tuft of long hair on 

 inner side ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, long in male. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; vein 

 3 from before angle of cell ; 6 from j ust above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; U from cell. Hind wing 

 with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. The patagia with thick fringe of scales at extremity ; tibiae of male 

 with thick fringe of hair, the hind tibite greatly dilated and with largo 

 tuft of long hair on inner side. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line minutely dentate microcyma. 



B. Fore wing witli the postmedial line not dentate. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line arising from costa 



before apex and slightly incurved below vein 4 albihasis. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line arising from apex, 



oblique and straight. 



