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rounded the termen eTenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 an-i-le of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 7,8,9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with the cell less than half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from 

 angle; 5 nearly fully developed from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

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



5406. Steganiodes mesophsea, n. sp. 



(S . Head fuscous brown slightly mixed with yellow, the palpi 

 whitish in front ; thorax and abdomen yellow mixed with deep 

 rufous; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen yellowish 

 white ; fore legs fuscous brown in front, the tufts of hair behind 

 coxfe fulvous. Fore wing yellow irrorated with fiery red, the costal 

 and medial areas deep purplish chooolate-brown ; a subbasal brown 

 line from the dark area to inner margin ; antemedial line dark 

 brown, obliquely curved, forming the inner edge of the chocolate 

 medial area which is slightly irrorated with blackish ; a yellow 

 discoidal lunule ; postmedial line brown, defining the chocolate area, 

 incurved from costa to vein 4 where it is acutely angled outwards, 

 then again incurved and angled outwards on vein 1 ; subterminal 



Fig. 77. — Steganiodes mesophwa, cJ. }. 



line double, red-brown, minutely waved to vein 3 M'here it is 

 angled outwards to termen, then slightly dentate and ending 

 at tornus ; an oblique chocolate bar beyond it between veins 

 4, 5 ; a chocolate-brown terminal line ; cilia yellow mixed with 

 rufous. Hind wing yellow irrorated with fiery red ; an oblique 

 elliptical discoidal spot defined by rufous ; postmedial line rufous, 

 oblique to vein 4 where it is acutely angled outwards, angled 

 inwards at vein 2 and outwards to inner margin ; subterminal line 

 double, rufous, oblique to discal fold, then dentate, the veins beyond 

 it with rufous streaks ; a rufous terminal line ; cilia yellow mixed 

 with rufous ; the underside yellowish white with slight dark 

 mark below middle of costa and traces of a subterminal line. 



Hah. S. Nigeria, Sapele {Sampson), 1 S type. Exj). 24 millim. 



Genus PSEUDACIDALIA. 



Type. 



Pseudacidalia, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 351 (1894) albicosta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint 

 reacliing to above vertex of head, the 3rd long; Irons smooth; eyes large, 

 round; antennae of male laminate; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales 

 and without crests ; tibiee smoothly scaled, tlie spurs long ; abdomen without 



