HOMODINA. — HEMICHLORIDIA. 
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Homodina argentifera, n. sp. 
Head red-brown, the vertex fulvous yellow ; antennae 
ringed with white towards base and with white bar between 
their bases ; thorax and abdomen fulvous yellow, a brown 
and silvery line across base of patagia and prothorax ; legs 
suffused with red-brown, the tarsi ringed with white. Fore 
wing fulvous yellow, the costa red-brown suffused with silvery 
scales ; subbasal black points on costa and in cell ; ante- 
medial line slight, brown with black points on costa and in 
submedian fold, slightly incurved below costa and oblique 
below submedian fold ; a black point in middle of cell ; 
medial line slight, brown with black bar from costa and point 
on discocellulars, excurved below costa, then oblique ; post- 
medial line slight, brown with black point at costa, excurved 
to vein 4, then slightly waved, some yellow points with black 
streaks between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 
indistinct, brown, curved, with a series of silvery spots beyond 
it except at costa ; a fine waved black terminal line ; cilia 
leaden grey at base, fuscous brown at tips. Hind wing 
fulvous yelloAv ; a black discoidal point ; an oblique brownish 
medial line ; a faint curved brown postmedial line ; a sub- 
terminal series of silvery spots ; a terminal series of black 
striae ; cilia leaden grey at base, fuscous brown at tips. 
Underside of fore Aving suffused Avith red-brown, a blackish 
point in middle of cell and discoidal bar, postmedial line 
blackish, excurved to vein 2, then oblique ; hind wing Avith 
the costal half irrorated with broAvn, the apical area more 
suffused Avith brown, a black discoidal point, curved dark 
brown medial line, dentate postmedial line and subterminal 
series of spots. 
Hab. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar (Miss Kingsley, Crompton ), 
1 (J, 1 $ type ; Cameroons ( Sjbstedt ), 1 Exp. 28 millim. 
Genus HEMICHLORIDIA, nov. 
Type, H. euprepia, Hmpsn. (W ester mannia), J. Bomb. Nat. 
Hist. Soc. xiv. p. 209 (1902). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to about vertex of head, smoothly scaled and flattened 
against the frons, the 3rd moderate and smoothly scaled ; 
frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male with 
fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed Avith hair only and Avithout 
crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal ridges 
of rough hair at base but without crests. Fore Aving rather 
long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely 
curved and slightly 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 whig with 
