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NOCTUIDJE. 
Unpao albizonata, n. sp. 
Head and thorax dark brown with white scales mixed i 
antennae dark brown ; palpi with the extremities of 1st and 
3rd joints white ; pectus and legs yellow, the fore tibiae and 
the tarsi dark brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, 
the hair at base dark brown, the ventral surface suffused with 
yellow except at extremity. Fore wing red-brown suffused 
with purple ; the terminal area dark brown irrorated with 
oehreous ; subbasal line black defined on outer side by whitish, 
oblique, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line in- 
distinct, double, formed by blackish and whitish scales and 
filled in with red-brown, excurved below costa and angled 
outwards at median nervure, submedian fold, and vein 1, the 
inner margin before and beyond it with rough black and whitish 
scales ; a band of rough black and whitish scales at end of 
cell followed bv a broad white band defined on outer side by 
the postmedial line which has a blackish spot at costa, slightly 
bent outwards below costa, then white defined by brown 
scales, strongly crenulate and produced on inner side to dark 
points on the veins, a white line just beyond it from vein 0 to 
inner margin ; subterminal line black-brown, diffused, oblique 
and sinuous towards costa, then incurved, excurved at middle, 
then again incurved and ending at tornus ; a series of white 
points before termen. Hind wing dark brown ; a broad 
white medial band with a faint violaceous tinge and traces of 
a waved grey line near its outer edge with small dark spot 
on it below vein 1 ; the terminal area striated with oehreous 
brown from below apex to near tornus with some blackish 
lunules between veins 4 and 1 representing the subterminal 
line ; a series of whitish striae before termen and the cilia 
whitish towards apex. Underside of fore wing fuscous, the 
costal area oehreous irrorated with brown to the lunulate 
white postmedial line, the white band not extending above 
vein 6, the terminal area oehreous whitish from apex to below 
vein 5 ; hind wing white to beyond middle irrorated with brown 
to median nervure and vein 2, the rest of wing fuscous black 
with oehreous subterminal lunules between veins 7 and 1 and 
patches on termen above and below middle. 
Hab. Sierra Leone, 1 1 $ type. Exp. 104 millim. 
Genus PLATYSCIA, nov. 
Type, P. mesoscia. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint- 
reaching to vertex of head and broadly scaled, the 3rd short 
and thickly scaled ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; an- 
tennae of male with fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed with 
rough hair and scales and without crests ; femora and tibiae 
