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Genus PARAFODINA, nov. 
Type, P. conjungens, Walk. (Grammodes), xiv. 1446 (1858). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to just above vertex of head, moderately scaled in 
front and slightly fringed with hair behind towards extremity, 
the 3rd short, porrect, thickly scaled ; Irons smooth, with tuft 
of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male with slight 
bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales 
and without crests ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen 
with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex some- 
what produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and not 
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 cell. Hind wing with the cell about half length of 
wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from well above 
angle : 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 
near base only. 
Parafodina ectrogia, n. sp. 
Head and thorax deep chocolate- brown, the antennae above 
towards base and a line between their bases white ; a slight 
white line behind the teguke ; pectus and base of legs whitish 
tinged with red-brown ; abdomen greyish brown, the ventral 
surface whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing red-brown, 
with a slight purple tinge ; a deep chocolate-brown patch edged 
with whitish from inner margin near base, obliquely curved 
to subcostal nervure at end of cell, then obliquely incurved 
to submedian fold towards termen where it is acutely angled, 
then oblique to inner margin ; a whitish line before the dark 
terminal line with a dark brown shade before it from costa to 
vein 2 ; cilia whitish tinged with brown. Hind wing greyish 
brown with a fine dark terminal line ; cilia whitish tinged 
with brown. Underside whitish suffused and irrorated with 
red-brown. 
Hob. Sierra Leone {Dudgeon), I <$, 2 $, Robalangdugu 
{Simpson), 1 $ ; S. Nigeria, Onitsha, 1 £ type. Exp. 32-36 
millim. 
Parafodina goniosema, n. sp. 
9. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with fiery red ; 
palpi deep red, whitish at tips ; abdomen red-brown. Fore 
wing deep chocolate-red thickly irrorated with silvery purplish 
white ; a deep chocolate-red patch edged by yellowish white 
lines, its inner edge running obliquely from discal fold at middle 
of cell to inner margin beyond middle, its upper edge running 
along the discal fold to end of cell, then curved downwards to 
lower angle of cell, then upwards to below the costa, its outer 
