MAECIPA. 
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spot on metathorax ; pectus in front and fore and mid legs 
tinged with rufous ; abdomen ochreous white, dorsa-lly 
tinged with red-brown. Fore wing ochreous white tinged 
with rufous and slightly irrorated with dark brown, the costal 
edge black-brown towards base ; a small black-brown spot 
in the cell towards base ; a chocolate-brown antemedial 
spot on costa and a bifid patch from cell to inner margin, 
its inner edge obliquely incurved, its outer edge strongly 
excurved above vein 1, then indented almost to its inner 
edge at vein 1 ; a round deep chocolate-brown spot defined 
by white in the cell towards extremity ; reniform chocolate- 
brown defined on inner side by white and with curved white 
striga in centre, rounded ; an oblique chocolate-brown striga 
from middle of costa ; postmedial line chocolate-brown 
defined on each side by white, forming a small spot at costa, 
then oblique and sinuous to vein 3, then retracted and almost 
obsolete to median nervure before end of cell, then rather 
inwardly oblique and sinuous and forming a conical spot at 
inner margin ; a conical deep chocolate-brown patch from 
costa before apex to below vein 7, defined by white, with 
two white points on it at costa, and its inner and outer edges 
slightly indented ; faint traces of a brown subterminal line, 
excurved at middle ; a lunulate chocolate-brown terminal 
line slightly defined on inner side by white. Hind wing 
ochreous white tinged with red-brown ; a terminal series of 
slight dark brown points. Underside creamy white ; fore 
wing suffused with red-brown except on inner area, with 
some minute black-brown streaks on costa towards apex and 
terminal series of minute spots ; hind wing slightly tinged 
and irrorated with red-brown, traces of a postmedial line, 
excurved beyond the cell, and terminal series of minute dark 
brown spots from apex to vein 2. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi (Whiteside), 2 $ tjqoe. Exp. 
36 millim. 
Marcipa argyrosema, n. sp. 
g. Head, tegulse, and a band behind them deep red-brown ; 
thorax ochreous white ; legs suffused with red-brown ; abdomen 
ochreous white tinged with brown, the dorsum suffused with 
blackish towards extremity. Fore wing creamy white slightly 
irrorated with dark brown, the terminal area tinged with brown ; 
the costa towards base and medial area to median nervure 
suffused with dark brown and silvery scales ; a minute black 
spot in the cell towards base ; a small triangular chocolate - 
brown antemedial spot on costa and a triangular patch from 
middle of cell to inner margin, defined by black-brown and 
with two black-brown striae with silver between them on it 
t inner margin ; a small rather oblique elliptical chocolate- 
