ODOI^TESTie. 



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hair above; eyes large, round ; antennaj of male moderately ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibise fringed with long 

 hair ; abdomen with crests on two basal segments. Fore wing with the apex 

 somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenu- 

 late, the inner margin with lobe and scale-tooth at middle and scale-tooth at 

 tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Hind tibis of male greatly dilated and fringed with long hair ; hind 

 wing on underside with fringe of scales in lower extremity of 

 cell. 



A. Fore wing with double-humped dark patch on middle of 



costa cyphonoia. 



B, Fore wing with triangular dark patch on middle of costa... prosiicta. 



7077. Odontestis cyphonota, n. sp. (Plate CXCI, fig. 2.) 



S . Head and thorax grey, the head and tegular tinged with 

 fuscous ; fore legs and mid tibiae tinged with fuscous, the fringe of 

 hair on hind tibiae ochreous tipped with brown ; abdomen ochreous 

 grej', the crests at base of dorsum brownish. Fore wing grey 

 faintly tinged with brown and slightly irrorated with dark scales ; 

 a purplish fuscous patch at middle of costa edged with black-brown, 

 its lower edge somewhat excised and forming a double hump ; a 

 black point at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line brownish, almost 

 obsolete toward cosla, below which it is excurved, then oblique and 

 somewhat diffused ; traces of a diffused subterminal line, excurved 

 at middle, then incurved. Hind wing greyish suffused with fuscous 

 brown ; cilia with a tine pale line at base. 



Ilab. Gold Coast, Kumasi (Whiteside), 1 c? type. Es2). 26 

 millim. 



7078. Odontestis prosticta. 



Plusiocalpe prosiida, Holl. Psyche, vii. pp. 29, 143, pi. 1. f. 3 (1894). 



Head and thorax grey; palpi and fore legs in front tinged with 

 fuscous; abdomen grey tinged wdth brown. Fore wing grey faintly 



Fig. 252. — Odontesiis prosticta, J . 



clouded with brown and with slight dark irroration ; the costal edge 

 blackish at base ; a triangular grey-black patch at middle of costa 



