﻿1374 CATALOGUE OF 



13. Ophisma Echo. 



Mas. Ferruginea, suhtus cinerea ; abdomen cinereum, hasi cris' 

 latum ; alee punctis marginalibus nigris ; anticce fascia latis- 

 sima costam versus extus repanda intus pallide carnea extus 

 obscure ferruginea lineam nigram denticulalam includenie^ 

 fascia marginali cana fusco nebulosa antice abbreviata ; pos- 

 ticcB cinereo-fuscescentes, extus fuscce, linea transversa recta 

 albida, margine albo interrupto. 



Male. Ferruginous, mucli resembling O. Macaria^ cinereous 

 beneath. Abdomen cinereous, crested towards the base. Wings 

 with black marginal points. Fore wings with an extremely broad 

 band, which spreads outward towards the costa and occupies the tip 

 of the wing ; this band includes a denticulated black line, and is 

 concave on the interior side, where it is pale flesh-colour, which 

 gradually clTan^es to dark ferruginous towards the hoary marginal 

 band, the latter being shaded with brown and shortened in front. 

 Hind wings brownish cinereous, brown exteriorly, with a transverse 

 whitish straight line, and with interrupted white borders. Length 

 of the body 10 — 11 lines; of the wings 26 — 28 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Eev. D. F. Morgan. 



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14. Ophisma albicilia. 



Pallide cervino-fusca ; abdomen subcinerascens ; palporum articulus 

 3us lanceolatus, breviusculus ; alee ciliis alb is ; anticce acutce, 

 subfalcatce^ subpurpurascente tincfce, lineis transversis fasces- 

 centibus angulosis valde indistinctis, linea exteriore albo punc- 

 tata^ reniformi indistincta fuscescente marginata ; posticce 

 pallide cinereo-fuscce, fasciis diiabus albidis nonnunqiiam 

 subobsoletis. 



Pale brown, with a tinge of fawn-colour. Abdomen and 

 under side more cinereous. Third joint of the palpi lanceolate, not 

 move than one third of the length of the second. Fore wings 

 acute, not falcate, with a lilac tinge; transverse lines brownish, 

 zigzag, very indistinct, the exterior one accompanied by white 

 points ; reniform mark indistinct, with a brownish outline ; exterior 

 border straight, its cilia? white, except at each end. Hind wings 

 pale cinereous-brown, with two incomplete and occasionally almost 

 obsolete whitish bands ; cilise mostly white. Length of the body 

 9 — 1 lines ; of the wings 25 — 27 lines. 



