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brown spot in the cell towards extremity and a chocolate- 
brown bar across vein 2 near the origin ; reniform defined by 
white and its centre incompletely by dark chocolate-brown, 
some red-brown in its centre, oblique ; postmedial line choco- 
late-brown defined on each side by white, forming a small spot 
at costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous to vein 3 where it 
terminates ; a rather quadrate deep chocolate-brown patch 
on costa before apex, defined by white and with two white 
points at costa ; a rather lunulate chocolate-brown line just 
before termen ; cilia chocolate-brown. Hind wing ochreous 
white suffused with fuscous brown. Underside whitish suffused 
with reddish brown. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi ( Whiteside) 1 type. C'ame- 
rooxs, Ja R., Bitje, 1 <$. Exp. 34-38 millim. 
Marcipa melanoconia, n. sp. 
(J. Head, tegulse, and a band behind them deep red-brown ; 
thorax ochreous white tinged with red-broAvn ; pectus and 
legs ochreous white, the fore and mid legs tinged with red- 
brown in front ; abdomen ochreous white dorsally tinged with 
brown. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with red-brown, 
the terminal area tinged with rufous except at apex, the costal 
edge red-brown towards base ; a minute black spot in the cell 
near base ; an oblique antemedial chocolate-brown bar from 
costa and an oblique deep chocolate-brown conical patch 
from middle of cell to inner margin ; the end of cell and area 
above it tinged with brown and silvery grey ; a minute round 
black spot defined by ochreous white in the cell towards 
extremity ; reniform deep chocolate-brown defined by ochreous 
white, some rufous in its lower part ; postmedial line red-brown, 
forming a small wedge-shaped mark at costa, oblique to vein 3, 
then faint, retracted to lower angle of cell, then incurved and 
below submedian fold forming the outer edge of the conical 
patch ; a rather quadrate red-brown patch on costal area 
before apex with three whitish points at costa and some deep 
chocolate-brown on its lower part ; an indistinct oblique red- 
brown line from below the angle of the postmedial line to 
inner margin near tornus ; a fine deep red-brown terminal 
line ; cilia red-brown. Hind wing ochreous white, suffused 
with fuscous brown except the costal half to beyond the cell ; 
a series of blackish striae on termen except towards tornus. 
Underside ochreous white ; fore wing tinged with brown except 
the inner area, a fuscous discoidal spot, some minute black- 
brown streaks on costa towards apex, and a series of minute 
blackish spots before termen except towards tornus ; hind 
wing irrorated with brown except the inner area, dark brown 
points on each side of the discocellular, a curved post medial 
