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pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen grey, the fore legs 

 brown in front. Fore wing chocolate-red, the costal area white 

 irrorated with brown, thickly towards costa, the white extending 

 to inner margin at base; antemedial line represented by a dark 

 mark in cell and traces of an oblique dark line from cell to inner 

 margin ; a slight white discoidal striga connected with the white 

 costal area ; postmedial line dark defined on outer side by white, 

 oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is acutely angled outwards, 



Fig. 61. — Lophoruza litliina, c?. |. 



then incurved and slightly sinuous, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line white defined on each side by blackish from 

 costa to below vein 5, then indistinct, dark, slightly incurved below 

 costa where there is a wedge-shaped black mark before it, angled 

 outwards below vein 5, then incurved, some yellowish white beyond 

 it from the costal fascia to below vein 5 ; a series of black points 

 just before termen slightly defined on outer side by white ; a fine 

 black terminal line except towards tornus. Hind wing chocolate- 

 red, the base white ; traces of an oblique dark discoidal striga ; a 

 faint dark postmedial Hue slightly defined on outer side by grey, 

 angled outwards at vein 4, then incurved ; a faint diffused dark 

 subterminal line ; a series of black points just before termen ; a fine 

 dark terminal line and pale line at base of cilia ; the underside grey, 

 a dark discoidal point, medial and subterminal lines, and a series of 

 black points before termen. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Aburi (Sir O. Carter), 1 S , Kumasi ( Whiteside), 

 2 2 ; Gaboon, Benito E., 1 ^ co-type ; Natal, Durban (GoocJi), 1 $ . 

 Exj^. 22-26 millim. 



*5352. Lophoruza mascarena, (Plate CLV. fig. 26.) 



Lophoruza mascarena, de Joan. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1910, p. 203. 



cj . Head and tegulse red-brown slightly mixed with grey ; palpi 

 dark brown, the tips of 2nd and 3rd joints whitish ; thorax whitish 

 tinged with flesh-pink, the pectus and legs whitish tinged with 

 brown ; abdomen red-brown, the base whitish tinged with pink, the 

 crests blackish, the ventral surface whitish. Pore wing red-brown 

 with the costal area broadly whitish irrorated with brown, ex- 

 panding at base to inner margin ; traces of a diffused double ante- 

 medial line, very oblique from submedian fold to inner margin near 

 base, a blackish point on it in submedian fold ; a minute black point 



