630 K0CTIIID.T5. 



7071. Negeta purpurascens, n. sp. (Plate CXC. fig. 31.) 



d' . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey suffused with brown, the 

 pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whiter. Fore wing white, 

 the basal half tinged with brown and the costal area suffused with 

 red-brown ; an oblique black striga from middle of costa ; two 

 black discoidal points ; an olive patch on costa above end of cell, an 

 obli(iue band from discal fold in end of cell to inner margin, and 

 some suffusion beyond the cell ; postmedial line slight, black, faintly 

 defined on outer side by whitish, excurved below costa, then oblique 

 and minutely dentate to vein 4, then incurved; the terminal area 

 irrorated and suffused with red-brown ; some oblique white striae 

 from costa ; subterminal line black faintly defined on inner side by 

 whitish, formed of minute dentate marks to vein 4, then incurved, 

 chocolate-brown patches beyond it below vein 7, at middle and 

 above inner margin ; a fine red-brown terminal line defined on 

 inner side by white. Hind wing semihyaline greyish suffused with 

 brown ; cilia whitish at tips ; the underside whitish, the terminal 

 area suffused with brown from costa to vein 2. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Kumasi {Whiteside)^ 2 6 type. Exjo. 20 

 millim. 



7072. Negeta chlorocrota. (Plate CXC. fig. 32.) 



micesena chlorocrota, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. 677 (1907). 



Head and thorax white tinged with olive-yellow and irrorated 

 with a few black scales; palpi with blackish mixed; frons with 

 blackish bar above ; pectus and legs brownish white, the fore legs 

 blackish in front; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing creamy 

 white very slightly irrorated with black ; a black streak from base 

 of costa through the cell to the postmedial line, with some purplish 

 grey suffusion below it, and also above it beyond the cell, bisecting 

 the reniform which is elliptical and incompletely defined by black ; 

 an olive-green fascia in upper part of cell before the reniform and 

 another from beyond the reniform to just beyond the postmedial 

 line ; a black antemedial point on vein 1 and traces of an oblique 

 olive-green and greyish medial line from cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line slight, double, with minute black streaks and white 

 etrise on the inner line and some olive-green suffusion before it from 

 vein 4 to inner margin, excurved from costa to vein 4, then very 

 oblique to submedian fold and erect to inner margin, some purplish 

 grey suffusion beyond it except towards costa ; subterminal line 

 olive-green below costa, then black, slightly incurved at discal fold 

 and angled outwards at vein 4, oblique to vein 2, and again slightly 

 excurved ; the terminal area white irrorated with brown and with 

 some olive-green suffusion at apex ; a terminal series of black strife ; 

 cilia with a slight dark line at middle and series of black points 

 at tips. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and terminal area 

 suffused with brown, more uniformly suffused in female ; a series 

 of black striae just before terraen ; cilia ochreous white ; the under- 



