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Marcipa secticona, n. sp. 
<$. Head, tegulse, and a band behind them deep red-brown,, 
the lower part of frons ochreous, the palpi rufous, white at 
extreme tips ; thorax ochreous white, the patagia with a 
few red-brown scales, the metathorax with small dark red- 
brown patch ; pectus in front and the fore and mid legs 
tinged with red-brown ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally faintly 
tinged with red-brown. Fore wing ochreous white faintly 
tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with red-brown ; 
a minute black-brown streak in the cell near base ; an ante- 
medial chocolate-brown bar from costa ; a triangular deep 
chocolate-brown patch on medial area from cell to inner 
margin, broken up by a white streak on vein 1 and below 
vein 1 by the excurved white antemedial line, and the white 
medial line which is angled inwards above inner margin ; in 
middle of cell a small round chocolate-brown spot with 
white centre ; reniform deep chocolate-brown defined by 
white and with curved white striga in centre, its outer edge 
angled inwards at middle and with chocolate-brown marks 
beyond it in the interspaces before the postmedial line ; a 
slight red-brown mark below middle of costa and a sinuous 
black-brown line from the cell to the triangular mark at vein 
1 with a chocolate-brown shade before it ; a postmedial series 
of small deep chocolate-brown spots from costa to vein 3, 
excurved below costa and slight diffused marks below vein 2 
and above 1, rather nearer the base ; a conical deep chocolate- 
brown patch defined by white from costa before apex to 
above vein 6, its outer edge indented and with traces of a 
diffused brown subterminal line from it, excurved at middle, 
then incurved to tornus ; a terminal series of small black- 
brown lunules. Hind wing ochreous white, the inner area 
faintly tinged with red-brown towards base ; a terminal 
series of small deep chocolate-brown lunules to submedian 
fold. Underside ochreous white irrorated with red-brown 
except on inner areas ; fore wing with red-brown discoidal 
lunule, curved postmedial line from costa to lower angle of 
cell, and terminal series of small black-brown lunules ; hind 
wing with slight red-brown discoidal striga, faint postmedial 
line excurved beyond the cell, and terminal series of small 
black-brown spots. 
Hab. Sierra Leone [Bartlett), 1 type. Exp. 40 millim. 
Marcipa disrupta, n. sp. 
Head, tegulse, and a band behind them deep red-brown, 
the lower part of frons ochreous, the palpi rufous, white at 
extreme tips ; the rest of thorax creamy white with a few 
black-brown scales on the patagia and small black-brown 
