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discoidal spots slightly defined by whitish, an inwardly oblique 
brown striga above them from costa ; postmedial line black- 
brown, arising below costa, incurved at discal fold, excurved 
at middle, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa 
with blackish between them ; an indistinct diffused dark sub- 
terminal line, incurved at discal fold, excurved at middle and 
ending at tornus ; a terminal series of small dark brown spots. 
Hind wing dark reddish brown with a faint curved postmedial 
line slightly defined on outer side by grey from discal fold to 
inner margin ; the underside grey suffused with reddish brown, 
a slight brown discoidal striga and curved postmedial line. 
Hab. S. Nigeria, Lagos, Ebute Meta ( Boag ), 2 $ type. 
Exp. 24 millim. 
Baniana smintliochroa, n. sp. 
Head and thorax dark brown tinged with grey ; abdomen 
pale grey-brown ; palpi white at tips ; tarsi ringed with white. 
Fore wing dark brown suffused with blue-grey ; a subbasal 
bladk bar from costa ; antemedial line brown slightly waved, 
with black bar from costa and small spot in upper part of 
cell ; reniform a very narrow lunule defined by dark brown, with 
a black bar to it from costa and an incurved dentate brown 
line from it to inner margin ; postmedial line black and oblique 
to vein 7, then dark brown, dentate, oblique below vein 4 ; 
a waved black subterminal line from costa to vein 7. Hind 
wing brown suffused with blue-grey ; a faint brown discoidal 
annulus with a faint brown line from it to inner margin, oblique 
below submedian fold ; a fine black-brown postmedial line, 
slightly waved to vein 6, then strongly dentate and angled 
inwards at vein 3 to the discoidal annulus, with some brown 
irroration and another slight dentate line angled outwards 
to minute white points beyond it from above vein 6 to inner 
margin. Underside uniform blue-grey tinged with brown. 
Hab. Br. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje ( Neave ), 1 1 $ type. 
Exp. 28 millim. 
Baniana ochracea, n. sp. 
$. Head pale yellow ; the antennse rufous, the palpi tinged 
with rufous except towards tips ; tegulse rufous ; thorax and 
abdomen ochreous white, the latter irrorated with red-brown ; 
legs suffused with red-brown. Fore wing ochreous white 
slightly irrorated with red-brown ; faint traces of a waved 
red- brown antemedial line ; a slight discoidal spot formed 
by red-brown scales ; postmedial line slight, red-brown, 
oblique to vein 6, then dentate, incurved below vein 4 ; a very 
faint waved brown subterminal line, excurved and rather 
diffused below vein 7 and at middle ; the terminal area tinged 
