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orange band from middle of costa to termen at submedian 
fold where its extremity is bent towards tornus, its edges 
sinuous and its inner edge bent outwards at vein 3. Under- 
side cliocolate-brown ; fore wing with some pale hair in and 
below base of cell, an oblique yellow band with sinuous edges 
from below costa beyond end of cell to near termen at vein 1. 
Hab. Peru (Simons), 1 $ type. Exp. 66 millim. 
Genus MESOGENEA. T 
Mesogenea, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 363 (1902)... varians, Hmpsn. 
Mesogenea costimacula, n. sp. 
Head, tegulse, and prothorax velvety black, the rest of 
thorax white tinged with red-brown and slightly irrorated 
with blackish ; palpi white at base ; tarsi dark brown ringed 
with white ; abdomen dark reddish brown, the ventral 
surface whitish irrorated with red-brown, subterminal series 
of small black- brown spots. Fore wing whitish tinged in 
parts with red- brown, especially the terminal area, and sparsely 
striated with dark brown, the costa more strongly striated 
with black and with rather quadrate black-brown medial 
and postmedial patches on costal area ; traces of a blackish 
antemedial line, angled outwards below the costa and inwards 
in the cell, oblique below the cell ; a black point in middle 
of cell ; a small blackish patch beyond lower angle of cell 
before the trace of the postmedial line, which is very obliquely 
excurved to vein 4, then retracted along median nervure to 
the antemedial line, then oblique and slightly excurved above 
inner margin ; a terminal series of minute black points ; cilia 
dark reddish brown except towards tornus. Hind wing 
reddish brown, the interspaces paler except towards termen ; 
cilia whitish at tips. Underside of fore wing red-brown, the 
boner and terminal areas pale, some small dark brown spots 
on costa towards apex ; hind wing whitish suffused with brown, 
the costal area tinged with red-brown and irrorated with 
brown. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing greyer. 
Hab. Br. C. Africa, Mlanje ( Neave ), 1 ; Portuguese 
E. Africa, Pvuo Valley (Neave), 1 ^ ; Mashonaland ( Bobbie ), 
1 1 $ type. Exp. S 24 ’ ? 26 milhm. 
Mesogenea excavata, n. sp. 
9. Head and thorax whitish suffused with pale red-brown 
and slightly irrorated with brown, the frontal tuft darker 
brown ; tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen whitish tinged 
with pale red-brown. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale 
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