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NOCTUID.E. 
ochreous and brown to beyond middle, a white medial band 
from below costa to above inner margin, a terminal series 
of rather triangular white spots to below vein 2. Hind wing 
with vein 5 rather slight and from middle of discocellulars. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi (Sanders), 1 $ type ; S. Nigeria 
(Dudgeon), 1 $, Akossa (Lugard), 1 $ ; N. Nigeria, Zungeru 
(Macfie), 1 $. Exp. 24-30 millim. 
Genus CATEPHIONA, nov. 
Type, C. lichenea, Hmpsn. ( Catephia ), Trans. Ent. Soc. 
189o : p. 306 ; id. Moths Ind. iv. p. 533 (1896). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled in front, the 
3rd long and smoothly scaled ; frons with truncate conical 
prominence with small raised rim at extremity ; eyes large, 
round ; antennae of female almost simple ; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales, the prothorax with slight crest, 
the metathorax with large spreading crest ; tibiae fringed with 
long hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal segments 
and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 
the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 
angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 
8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell 
about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully 
developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anas- 
tomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus EUCA.TEPHIA, nov. 
Type, E. dinawa B.-Bkr. (Catephia), Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 252 
(1906). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled in front, the 
3rd long and smoothly scaled ; frons with small rounded 
prominence and ridge of scales above ; eyes large, round ; 
antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 
scales, the prothorax with slight crest ; the metathorax with 
large spreading crest ; tibiae fringed with long hair, the hind 
tarsi in male with the 1st joint fringed with long hair above ; 
abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal segments and lateral 
fringes of hair. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 
evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 
6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 
the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one 
third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed 
from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 
with the cell near base only. 
