PARALEPHANA. 
155 ’ 
rufous, the cilia whitish tinged with rufous. Underside of 
fore wing red-brown, the costa yellowish, broadly on post- 
medial area, the inner area whitish, a dark discoidal striga 
hind wing yellowish tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated 
with red-brown, a brown discoidal point, the inner area 
whitish. 
Fore wing with small areole. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Bibianaha ( Spurrell ), 1 E type ; 
Cameroons, Ja R., Bitje, 1 Exp. 28 millim. 
Paralephana incurvata, n. sp. 
Head and thorax purplish grey pencilled with red-brown ; 
antennae red-brown ; palpi red-brown with a silvery gloss ; 
legs red-brown ; abdomen greyish suffused with red-brown. 
Fore wing purplish grey thickly irrorated with reel-brown ; 
medial line dark red- brown defined on inner side by rufous, 
mgled outwards below costa, then obliquely incurved ; a 
blackish point at lower angle of cell ; postmeclial line dark 
red-brown defined on outer side by rufous, then by whitish, 
straight, from costa towards apex to tornus ; cilia whitish 
at base, the tips rufous, deep chocolate-brown at the excision 
below apex. Hind wing greyish suffused with dark red-brown ; 
a fine dark terminal line. Underside grey-white ; fore wing 
suffused with brown except the costal and inner areas ; hind 
wing irrorated with brown, a small blackish discoidal spot 
and faint postmedial line. 
Fore wing with small areole. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Obuassi (Bergman), 1 $ ; S. Nigeria, 
Ilesha (Hnmjrey), 2 <$ type. Exp. 34 millim. 
Paralephana costisignata, n. sp. 
<£. Head grey, the antennae brownish ; thorax and abdomen 
grey mixed with rufous. Fore wing grey irrorated with a few 
dark scales, the basal area suffused with rufous, its outer edge 
oblique ; a black spot at middle of costa ; postmedial line 
very near termen, white defined on inner side by black which 
forms a spot at costa, excurved from below costa and angled 
inwards to very short streaks on veins 5 to 1 ; the apical 
half of costa and the termen with some silvery scales ; some 
small black and white spots on costa towards apex and a 
terminal series of black spots and striae ; cilia tinged with 
rufous and with blackish spots at tips from apex to vein 4. 
Hind wing grey suffused with brown ; a terminal series of 
blackish striae ; cilia rather paler. Underside grey ; fore 
wing tinged with red-brown ; hind wing irrorated with red- 
brown and with slight curved postmedial line ; both wings 
with terminal series of blackish spots. 
Hab. Sierra Leone (Dudgeon), 1 E type. Exp. 26 millim. 
