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Exophila melanocleis, n. sp. 
Head and tegulse black-brown ; thorax dark red-brown ; 
pectus whitish suffused with brown ; tarsi blackish ringed 
with white ; abdomen fuscous brown with a greyish gloss, 
the ventral surface whitish suffused with brown. Fore wing 
grey-brown sparsely irrorated with large black scales ; ante- 
medial line indistinct, dark, oblique, sinuous ; three minute 
black discoidal spots arranged in a triangle ; postmedial line 
indistinct, dark, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a faint 
pale subterminal line, excurved at middle ; a series of black 
points before termen. Hind wing blackish brown, a fine 
whitish line at base of cilia. Underside of fore wing greyish 
suffused with dark brown, the terminal area paler, the inner 
area whitish, a dark postmedial line on costal area and series 
of black points before termen ; hind wing whitish suffused 
with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown, diffused 
brown postmedial and subterminal lines. 
$. Thorax pale grev-brown with a few r dark scales ; abdomen 
pale grey-brown ; fore wing with the ground-colour pale 
red-brown, the discoidal spots more diffused and with some 
black-brown suffusion beyond them before the postmedial 
line which is more oblique to vein 4, then more strongly in- 
curved ; hind wing grey-brown. 
Hab. Aburi, Akropong Mts. (Sir G. Carter), 1 $ type 
Gold Coast, Obuassi (Bergman), 1 $. Exp. 34 millim. 
Genus PARALEPHANA, nov. 
Type, P. 'poliotis. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint up- 
turned, reaching to about vertex of head, typically moderately 
scaled in front and with slight tuft of hair behind at extremity, 
the 3rd short, porrect, thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with 
ridge of scales above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male 
typically bipectinate with long branches, the apical part 
with long cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, 
the metathorax with depressed crest ; tibiae moderately 
fringed with hair ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without 
crests. Fore wing with the costa arched towards apex which 
typically is somewhat produced and acute, the termen excised 
below apex and excurved at middle, not crenulate ; vein 3 
from well before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle , 
6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, or 9 from 10 
anastomosing with 8 to form a minute areole and vein 7 
well beyond the areole ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with the 
cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully 
developed from well above angle ; (5, 7 shortly stalked ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
