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NOCTl'ID.E. 
blackish striae. Hind wing grey-brown with a terminal series 
of slight blackish spots. Underside whitish suffused with 
red-brown except the inner areas. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi (McDowall), 1 $ type. Exp. 
34 millim. 
Marcipa ruptisigna, n. sp. 
Head, tegulse, and a band behind them red-brown tinged 
with grey ; thorax and abdomen grey suffused with brown. 
Fore wing grey suffused and irrorated with reddish brown ; 
a minute black streak defined by white above subcostal 
nervure near base ; an oblique triangular chocolate-brown 
antemedial spot on costa and a band slightly defined by white 
from just above median nervure to inner margin, its inner edge 
obliquely incurved, its outer edge strongly excurved in sub- 
median interspace and angled inwards at vein 1 ; a round black- 
brown spot defined by white in the cell towards extremity ; 
reniform black-brown defined by white, oblique ; the end of 
cell and area beyond it before the postmedial line more 
strongly suffused with red-brown with a more distinct patch 
at costa ; postmedial line red-brown slightly defined on outer 
side by white, oblique and almost straight to vein 3, then 
retracted to near origin of vein 2 and oblique to inner margin 
where there is a small chocolate-brown patch on its inner 
side defined on inner side by whitish ; a conical chocolate-brown 
patch defined by whitish on costal area towards apex, with 
three white points at costa, the faint brown subterminal line 
arising from it, excurved at middle, then bent inwards to below 
the angle of the postmedial line and defined on outer side by 
whitish to inner margin near tornus ; a very narrow chocolate- 
brown terminal band except towards tornus, its inner edge 
slightly waved and defined by whitish ; cilia chocolate-brown. 
Hind wing reddish brown. Underside grey suffused with 
reddish brown. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with production of the antemedial patch 
above vein 1, confluent with the patch on the postmedial line 
at inner margin. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi ( Whiteside ), 2 $ ; S. Nigeria, 
Old Calabar (Miss Kingsley), 1 Uesha ( Hvmfrey ), 3 <$, 2 $ 
type; N. Nigeria, Zungeru ( Macfie ), 1 d, Kano (F. G. Brown), 
1 $ ; Br. C. Africa, Mlangi Boma (Neave), 1 $. Exp. 28-36 
millim. 
Marcipa confluens, n. sp. 
d- Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some greyish ; 
antenna; darker brown ; abdomen whitish suffused and 
irrorated with dark brown, the anal tuft tinged with rufous ; 
pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdemen whitish irrorated 
