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upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tin* 
areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell half the length 
of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from 
below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 
anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus GESONIA. 
Gesonia, Walk. xvi. 75 (1858) obeditalis. Walk. 
Dragava , Walk, xvi. 200 (1858) obeditalis, Walk. 
Hileia, Walk. xxiv. 1100 (1862) obeditalis , Walk. 
Apphadana , Walk, xxxiv. 1212 (1865) nec Walk. 
xxxiii. 1094 obeditalis, Walk. 
Mares in. Walk. xxxv. 1637 (1866) obeditalis. Walk. 
Amblijgues. Bull. 111. Het. B.M. iii. p. 69 (1879) . obeditalis, Walk. 
Hemipsectra. Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. viii. p. 84 (1891) plumipars, Hmpsn. 
Gesonia stictigramma, n. sp. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish tinged with reddish 
brown ; palpi except at tips and sides of frons chocolate- 
brown ; fore and mid legs suffused with chocolate-brown 
in front. Fore wing pale purplish grey tinged with brown 
and in-orated with black-brown ; traces of an oblique dark 
antemedial line ; a faint diffused oblique dark medial line 
with some black scales on discocellulars ; an indistinct 
oblique sinuous dark postmedial line, incurved below vein 
3 to near the medial line ; an oblique dark line with series of 
black striae on it from apex to inner margin, the area beyond 
it more suffused with brown to the faint oblique sinuous 
dark subterminal line which is excurved at middle ; traces 
of a waved dark terminal line with series of black points on 
it at termen on the veins and before termen in the interspaces. 
Hind wing grey-w r hite suffused with brown and irrorated with 
black-brown ; traces of two oblique lines on antemedial 
area ; an oblique postmedial line, indistinct except towards 
inner margin and with some brown suffusion beyond it ; an 
indistinct diffused subterminal line with fuscous suffusion 
beyond it on apical area : traces of a waved dark terminal 
line with blackish points at the interspaces. Underside 
whitish ; fore wing suffused with red-brown except the 
inner area ; hind wing tinged and irrorated with red-brown, 
a slight discoidal point and indistinct curved postmedial and 
subterminal lines. 
Ab. I . Fore wing with more distinct black marks on the 
oblique line and a spot at submedian fold. 
Ab. 2. Much whiter and less suffused with brown. 
Hnb. N. Nigeria, Zungeru (Macfie), 1 type ; Uganda, 
Jinja (Neave), I $; Hr. ('. Africa, Mt. Mlanje ( Neave . ), 8 
9 $; Portuguese F. Africa, Mt. Chiperone (Neave), 1 
Exp. $ 20, 9 32 millim. 
