0(i GASODKS. 
GENTASCOTA 
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area ; an indistinct brown antemcdial line, excurved below 
costa and incurved at submedian fold ; a minute blackish 
discoidal lunuie ; postmedial line dark brown, double except 
towards costa where it is somewhat outwardly oblique, 
minutely waved ; subterminal line black-brown, slightly 
waved, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds and 
excurved at middle ; a series of minute black spots before 
termen. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown. Under- 
side whitish ; fore wing tinged with brown and with a series 
of small black spots just before termen connected by a crenu- 
late terminal line ; hind wing with terminal series of small 
black spots except towards tornus. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Aburi {.Johnson), 1 $ type. Exp. 
30 millim. 
Genus GENIASCOTA, nov. 
Type, G. trichoptycha. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to about middle of frons, rather broadly scaled in 
front and slightly fringed with hair behind towards extremity, 
the 3rd short with minute triangular tuft of hair in front ; 
frons smooth with ridge of scales above ; eyes large, round ; 
antennae of male with long bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed 
with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax with small spreading 
crest ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; build slender ; 
abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the 
apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenu- 
late ; the male with the cell very long and much contracted 
at extremity so that the discocellulars are very short and all 
the veins from end of cell arising close together, a fold through 
the cell from near base to beyond its extremity where it is 
turned downwards, covered by a fringe of scales from above 
it ; all the veins from the cell and veins 8, 9 coincident. 
Hind wing with the cell more than half the length of wing ; 
veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 fully developed from lower angle ; 
6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 
base only. 
Geniascota trichoptycha, n. sp. 
(J. Head and thorax creamy white, the head and tegulae 
irrorated with brown ; antennae brown ; frons with lateral 
dark brown bars ; palpi with the 2nd joint brown except at 
base and extremity, the 3rd joint with brown stripe ; legs 
irrorated with brown, the fore tibiae and tarsi banded with 
brown ; abdomen creamy white dorsally irrorated with 
reddish brow’n. Fore wing creamy white slightly irrorated 
with brown ; traces of waved antemedial, medial and post- 
medial lines, with oblique dark striae from costa, the post- 
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