PLATYSCIA. 
91 
of male fringed with long hair, the hind tibiae fringed with 
long hair on both sides, the hind tarsi with the 1st joint 
fringed with hair above ; abdomen with dorsal ridges of hair 
on basal segments but without crests. Fore wing with the 
costa rather highly arched towards apex which is rounded, 
the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 
near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anas- 
tomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 
wing with the cell about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 
from angle ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 
from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 
only ; the underside in male clothed with silky downturned 
hair except the terminal area. 
Platyscia mesoscia, n. sp. 
o . Head and tegulae brown with some whitish scales, the 
frons whitish above, the basal joint of antennae whitish at 
extremity ; thorax and abdomen red-brown ; pectus and 
legs black-brown, the tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing 
red-brown ; subbasal line blackish defined on each side by 
reddish ochreous towards costa, sinuous, from costa to sub- 
median fold ; antemedial line indistinct, blackish, angled 
outwards below costa, slightly excurved at median nervure 
and bent outwards at vein 1 ; some blue-grey suffusion in the 
cell and submedian interspace before the medial line which is 
blackish, arising from costa near the antemedial line, oblique 
and sinuous to below submedian fold, then bent inwards at 
vein 1, the area from it to the postmedial line suffused with 
black-brown ; postmedial line blackish, defined on each side 
by reddish ochreous towards costa, then placed near the 
inner edge of a violaceous grey band, erect, minutely waved 
from below costa to inner margin, some pale points beyond 
it on costa ; subterminal line black, rather maculate, bent 
inwards below vein 7 and excurved below vein 2 ; a series of 
white striae defined on outer side by black points before 
termen ; a slight waved dark terminal line and waved line 
near base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown ; a blackish post- 
medial line obliquely excurved to vein 2 ; the apical area 
suffused with fuscous ; a double diffused slightly sinuous 
blackish subterminal line ending at tornus ; a series of whitish 
striae defined on outer side by blackish before termen ; a 
w r aved black terminal line and fine pale line at base of cilia. 
Underside of both wings velvety black-brown with white 
patch at apex of fore wing. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi (Sanders), 1 type. Exp. 
74 millim. 
