OLIGTA. 363 



dark brown, Fore wing rufous suffused with dark brown 

 and irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by double 

 bkick strife from costa and cell ; antemedial line double tilled 

 in with greyish, slightly angled outwards below costa, then waved 

 and rather oblique ; claviform small, slightly detined by black ; 

 orbicular small, indistinct, with greyish annulus defined by black, 

 round ; reniform with white annulus slightly defined by brown, 

 open below and somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; an 

 indistinct diffused dark medial line, oblique from costa to median 

 nervure ; postmedial line black defined by whitish on outer side, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa; postmedial line indistinct, 



Fig. 61. — Oligia inelanodonta, (j". \. 



pale, waved, defined on inner side by a dark patch on costal area 

 and slight dentate marks at middle, interrupted at veins 5 and 2 

 by diffused wedge-shaped black-brown patches from termen to 

 postmedial line ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia 

 rufous and dark brown intersected by whitish at the veins. Hind 

 wing dark reddish brown, the cilia whitish at tips ; the underside 

 whitish suffused with pinkish scales to postmedial line, a blackish 

 discoidal spot, curved postmedial line beut inwards at vein 2, and 

 subterminal band diffused to termen from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. NiGERrA, Old Calabar {Crompton\ 2 S type. Exp. 

 32 millim. 



Sect. II. Tibia; and tarsi of male normal. 



A. Fore wing of male with fan of large scales in cell on under- 

 side. 

 a. F(jre wing with the orbicular and reniform confluent 



on median nervure ftyoijhora. 



h. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform not confluent 



on median nervure nadgani. 



3183. Oligia ptyophora, n. sp. 



Head and thorax greyish mixed with brown and black ; tarsi 

 black ringed with grey ; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous, the 

 crests black. Fore wing red-brown tinged with grey and suffused 

 with fuscous on basal, inner and terminal areas ; subbasal line 

 represented by black striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line 

 formed of black striae, somewhat oblique, waved and with short 

 black streaks before it in cell, submedian fold and above inner 



