622 



NOCTTTIDJi;. 



dorsally suffused with brown. Fore Aving ochreous white suffused 

 with red-brown and irrorated with a few blackish scales ; a white 

 patch with brown scales mixed at base of inner margin, defined by 

 an obliquely curved dark line ; a white point defined by brown in 

 middle of cell and two small white discoidal spots defined by 

 brown ; an oblique straight dark brown line from apex to middle 

 of inner margin ; cilia brown with a fine white line at base. Hind 

 wing ochreous white tinged with brown ; the underside white. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Kumasi ( Whiteside), 1 (S ; (jaboon, Ogove E., 

 type t iu Coll. Holland. Exp. 32 millim. 



7055. Metaleptina nigribasis. 



Metale2:>tina nigribasis, HoU. Psyche, vi. p. 551, pi. 21. f. 11 (1893). 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some grey ; pectus 

 and legs creamy M'hite, the mid tibise tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 dark reddish brown mixed with some grey, the basal crest blackish, 

 the ventral surface white. Fore wing pale red-brown slightly 



Fig. 249. — Metaleptina nigribasis, J. \. 



irrorated with black ; an oblique black-brown fascia on base of 

 inner margin ; a minute black point at upper angle of cell ; an 

 oblique rufous line from apex to inner margin just beyond middle. 

 Hind wing uniform fuscous brown ; the underside creamy white, a 

 diffused curved brown postmedial line, the termen tinged wilh 

 brown except at apex and tornus. 



Hah. S. jSTigeria, Ilesha {Humfrey), 1 S • Coi^^go, Kangwe 

 (Good), type t d in Coll. Holland. Exp. 30 millim. 



7056. Metaleptina alMlinea, n. sp. (Plate CXC. fig. 18.) 



5. Head white; palpi suffused with brown at sides; antennte 

 brownish ; thorax brown mixed with white ; pectus white ; legs 

 white suffused with brown ; abdomen white, dorsally suffused with 

 brown. Fore wing whitish suffused with brown and irroraf ed with 

 fuscous, the costal edge white ; a fuscous point in middle of cell 

 and points at upper and lower angles ; postmedial line brown 

 defined on outer side by white, oblique and straight from apex to 

 inner margin beyond middle ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; a fine pale line at base of 

 cilia; the underside whitish tinged with brown, a diffused brown 

 postmedial shade, obtusely angled at vein 5, then oblique. 



Hah. S. NiGEKiA, Ilesha {Humfrey), 1 $ type. Exp. 34 millim. 



