628' N0CTiiiD.3i:. 



7067. Negeta mesoleuca. (Plate CXC. fig. 2S.) 



Tarache mesoleuca, Holl. Psyche, yn. pp. 128, 144, pi. 5. f. 27 (1894), 



c?. Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with rufous; fore 

 legs suffused with fuscous. Fore wing white suffused with pale 

 rufous ; the costal area suffused with fuscous to beyond middle ; 

 faint traces of a dark spot in base of cell and of a waved ante- 

 medial line ; terminal area deep red-brown, its inner edge incurved 

 from costa before apex to middle of inner margin, a black patch on 

 middle of terminal area with some irregular white markings above 

 and below it ; two black and silvery discoidal points with a slight 

 oblique white striga from costa towards them ; a very slightly 

 waved black line defi.ned by silver on outer side, excurved from 

 below costa beyond middle to vein 3 where it emits a spur to the 

 discoidal points, then oblique to inner margin ; a slight black striga 

 just before termen below apex; cilia white with some fuscous 

 points at base. Hind wing white tinged with brown. 



5 . Head and tegulee brown ; thorax and ground-colour of fore 

 wing pure white ; hind wing brown, the cilia white tiuged with 

 brown at base ; the underside whitish. 



IJah. SiEKRA Leone (Clemeyits), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Gold Coast, Kuraasi 

 (Whiteside), 1 c? ; ^- Nigeria, Lagos (Dudgeon), 2 $, Ilesha 

 (Humfrey), 3 $ ; Gaboon, Ogove Valley, 1 S co-type. Exp. 16- 

 22 millim. 



7068. Negeta luminosa. (Plate CXC. fig. 29.) 



Acontia luminosa, Wit. xv. 1759 (1858). 



Tha^wchares parectata, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 148 (1863). 



Micra lacteola, Mab. C.E. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1880, p. xis. 



Head and thorax pure white ; palpi, frons, antennje and fore 

 legs tinged with brown ; abdomen white faintly tinged with 

 brown, leaving slight white dorsal segmental lines. Fore wing 

 pure white, the costa and terminal area suffused with purplish 

 grey ; pale olive spots defined by silvery white at middle of costa 

 and on discocellulars and a band from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; some white striae on postmedial part of costa ; postmedial 

 line silvery white, arising from below costa towards apex, slightly 

 waved and defined on inner side by olive and blackish spots to 

 vein 3, then bent inwards to the medial band; subterminal line 

 slight, white, waved, the veins beyond it with slight white streaks 

 defining* a series of grey spots just before the white termen ; a fine 

 brown terminal line ; cilia white. Hind wing white, the terminal 

 area tinged with brown from apex to vein 2, in female the whole 

 terminal area tinged with brown ; cilia white. Underside of fore 

 wing suffused with grey-biown. 



Hah. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar (Sampson),!. $ , Ilesha (77'»??7/r^//), 

 1 c? ; N. Nigeria, Zungeru (Macfie), 1 S , Minna (Macfie), 1 S , 

 Borgu, Yelwa Lake (Mir/eod), 1 c? ; Congo (Curror), 1 J type ; 



