MECODOPS1S. 
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slightly fringed with hair behind at extremity, the 3rd rather 
long and thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair 
above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of female with slight 
bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, 
the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae 
moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with crests on two 
basal segments, the crest on 2nd segment large. Fore wing 
with the apex slightly produced, 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 cell. Hind wing with the cell nearly 
half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully de- 
veloped from well above angle ; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Mecodopsis conisema, n. sp. 
$. Head and thorax red-brown tinged with grey, the 
prothoracic crest tipped with whitish and black ; abdomen 
grey- brown, the crest on 2nd segment tipped with black- 
brown and whitish. Fore wing red-brown tinged with grey 
and irrorated with a few black scales ; a subbasal black 
point in the cell ; antemedial line red-brown, at costa black 
defined on inner side by white, angled outwards below costa, 
incurved in the cell and at vein 1 and excurved below the 
cell and above inner margin ; a minute brown spot in middle 
of cell ; medial line brown, excurved in the cell, then waved ; 
postmedial line fine, brown, defined on outer side by white, 
blackish at costa, oblique to vein 6, where it is acutely angled 
outwards, then incurved and slightly waved to vein 3, a 
truncate conical chocolate-brown patch beyond it on costal 
area, extending to apex and with some white points at costa ; 
an indistinct rather interrupted brown subterminal line, 
slightly incurved at submedian fold ; a series of black points 
just before termen and a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 
wing grey-brown ; an indistinct brown postmedial line, 
slightly defined on outer side by whitish and somewhat in- 
curved below vein 3 ; the terminal area greyer except towards 
apex ; a series of black points just before termen and a fine 
pale line at base of cilia. Underside of fore wing grey-brown, 
a slight dark discoidal striga and faint postmedial line ex- 
curved below costa ; hind wing whitish irrorated with brown, 
a slight dark discoidal point, and faint waved postmedial 
line ; both wings with series of black points before termen. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Bibianaha ( Spurrell ), 1 $ type ; N. 
Nigeria, Zungeru ( Macfie ), 1 $. Exp. 38 millim. 
