SOHAUSIA. LOPHONOTIDIA. 017 



152. Schausia leona. 



^gocera leona, Schaus, Lep. S. Leone, p. 20, pi. i. f. 1 (1893). 



Deep chocolate-brown; palpi fringed with fulvous ; coxa) with 

 fulvous hair. Pore wing with very oblique diamond-shaped silvery- 

 white patch from costa to middle of submedian fold ; a large lunulate 

 spot beyond the cell between veins 8 and 3 ; a purplish silvery- 

 brown spot on middle of inner margin, an oblique line across end of 

 cell to near tornus, where it is dilated into a large patch ; a discoidal 

 bar, a subtermmal series of lunulate spots, and a terminal band 



¥\». 2^1.— Schausia leona, c?. \. 



Hind wing yellowish white, with a broad black-brown terminal 

 band with an irregularly sinuous inner edge, running to costa at 

 middle where it is continued to the base as a wavy streak ; the 

 termen tinged with chocolate. 



Hah. Sierra Leone (^Morgan), 1 c? , {Clements) 1 <S ; Niger R., 

 Sapele {Sampson), 1 $ . Fjxp., S 48, $ 52 millim. 



Genus LOPHONOTIDIA, nov. 



Type, L. nocturna. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, clothed 

 with long hair, the 3rd joint minute, hairy ; frons with large pointed triangular 

 prominence ; antennai moderately dilated towards extremity ; head and thorax 

 clothed with long hair ; tibiae fringed with long hair, the spurs moderate ; 

 abdomen with large dorsal crests on 1st three segments. Fore wing with veins 

 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 froiti 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; the termen crenulate. Hind wing with vein 

 2 from before angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; the termen sinuous and slightly excised 

 between veins 4 and 6 ; male with lateral tufts at base of abdomen. 



153. Lophonotidia nocturna, n. sp. 



<S . Head and thorax dark red-brown, mixed with white hair ; 

 antennae irrorated with blue ; pectus in front and below the wings, 

 and fore coxae orange ; fore legs irrorated with white and with the 

 fringe on tibiae mixed with white ; the tufts at base of abdomen 

 rufous ; abdomen black, the dorsal tufts red-brown, the anal tuft 

 mixed with white. Fore wing deep chocolate red-brown ; an ante- 



