362 NOCTUID^. 



Sect. 1. Mid and bind tibiie of male fringed with long hair on upper side ; 

 abdomen with tufts of long liair from base. 

 A. Hind wing of male clothed with rufous scales to near termen on 

 underside. 



3181. Oligia hypothermes, n. sp. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed with dark brown ; 

 mid and hind tibiae with fiery red fringes of hair, the abdominal 

 tufts dark brown. Fore wing rufous suffused and irrorated with 

 dark brown leaving a paler patch beyond postmedial line on inner 

 area ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, angled inwards in 

 cell and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial liae indistinctly 

 double, waved, excurved below cell ; claviform small, faintly 

 defined by black ; orbicular small, defined by black, round ; 

 reniform incompletely defined by black and with whitish bar 

 on outer edge, angled inwards on median nervure ; a slight 

 waved black medial line ; postmedial line slightly defined by 

 rufous on outer side, somewhat bent outwards below costa, then 



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Fig. 60 — Oligia hypothermes, c? • \- 



waved, incurved below vein 7, then oblique to vein 4 near sub- 

 terminal line, then strongly incurved, some pale points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; 

 a terminal scries of small black lunules ; cilia rufous mixed with 

 dark brown. Hind wing rufous ; the underside clothed with fiery 

 red hair to near termen. 



5 . Fore wing darker brown to postmedial line ; hind wing 

 rufous tinged with brown; the underside pale tinged with rufous 

 and irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Aburi, Akropong Mts. {Carter), 1 J , 1 $ type. 

 Eci'p. 26 millim. 



B. Hind wing of male on underside less strongly clothed with pinkish scales 

 to postmedial line, 



3182. Oligia melanodonta, n. sp. 



S. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown and 

 greyish ; palpi with the 2nd joint blackish at sides ; frons black at 

 sides ; legs with the fringes of hair on femora and tibiae rufous, the 

 tarsi fuscous with whitish rings ; abdomen rufous srifFuHed with 



