MARCIPA. — TEPHRIOPIS. 
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$. Fore wing with the medial area not suffused with dark 
brown below the cell, but with triangular black-brown marks 
on the outer edge of the antemedial line in submedian inter- 
space and at inner margin. 
Hab. German E. Africa, Dar-es-Salaam, 1 $ ; Br. C. 
Africa, Mt. Mlanje ( Neave ), 6 5 $ type ; Portuguese E. 
Africa, Mt. Chiperone {Neave), 1 g. Exp. 30-34 millim. 
Marcipa apicalis, n. sp. 
<$. Head, thorax, and abdomen chocolate-brown mixed 
with grey. Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown and 
irrorated with chocolate-brown ; antemedial line chocolate- 
brown, forming a spot at costa, oblique to subcostal nervure 
and slightly curved towards inner margin ; a diffused 
chocolate-brown mark in middle of cell and chocolate-brown 
discoidal bar ; medial line chocolate-brown, excurved to the 
discoidal bar and erect below the cell ; postmedial line 
chocolate-brown slightly defined on each side by whitish, 
forming a spot at costa, then sinuous, oblique to below vein 
4, then erect ; a triangular chocolate-brown patch from 
costa to vein 7 defined by whitish and with two white points 
at costa ; a semicircular chocolate-brown patch on termen 
from below apex to vein 4 followed by a sinuous line ; cilia 
chocolate-brown at tips. Hind wing greyish suffused with 
red-brown ; the underside grey tinged and irrorated with 
red-brown, a small red-brown discoidal spot and indistinct 
postmedial line. 
Hab. S. Nigeria, Lagos (Boag), 1 type. Exp. 28 millim. 
Genus TEPHRIOPIS, nov. 
Type, T . divulsa, Walk. ( Athyrma ), xxxiii. 966 (1865) ; 
Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. p. 105, pi. 163. f. 4 (1893). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to well above vertex of head, slightly fringed with 
hair hi front and with a tuft of hah’ behind at middle, the 
3rd long and thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair 
above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male minutely serrate 
and with long bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed chiefly with 
scales, the prothorax with small spreading crest, the meta- 
thorax without crest ; tibiae of male fringed with long hair, 
the mid tibiae with a groove containing a tuft of long hair, 
of female smoothly scaled ; abdomen with some rough hair 
at base of dorsum but without crests. Fore wing with the 
costa arched towards apex which is somewhat produced and 
acute, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; 
veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 
9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 
