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NOCTUID,-E. 
of cell ; 6 from just below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 
11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the 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. 
Drepanophiletis castaneata, n. sp. 
<$. Head and thorax chestnut red slightly mixed with 
yellowish, the palpi at sides and shoulders fiery red ; pectus 
and legs white, the fore tibice red-brown in front ; abdomen 
white suffused with grev-brown, reddish at base, the ventral 
surface white. Fore wing chestnut brown sparsely irrorated 
with black scales, the terminal area white tinged with rufous 
except towards costa ; antemedial line slight, red-brown 
broadly defined on inner side by reddish yellow and narrowly 
on outer side, excurved to median nervure, then bent inwards 
and sinuous to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, 
red-brown defined on outer side by whitish, excurved to vein 
4, then incurved ; traces of a sinuous brown subterminal line 
with small black spots on it above and below vein 4 and a 
white spot defined by red and traversed by a red striga in 
submedian interspace ; a brownish terminal line ; cilia 
whitish at base, brown at tips. Hind wing dark reddish 
brown, the cilia whitish. Underside white tinged with brown, 
the costa of fore wing brown. 
Hah. Gold Coast, Bibianaha ( Spurrell ), 1 ^ type. Exp . 
42 millim. 
Genus G0NI0PHILA, nov. 
Type, G. excavata, Swinh. (Cosmophila), A. M. N. H. (7), xv. 
p. 158 (1905). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, smoothly scaled in front and 
slightly fringed Avith hair behind towards extremity, the 3rd 
long ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair aboA’e ; eyes large, 
round ; an ten me of male typically serrate and with fascicles 
of long cilia, the apical part ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 
entirely AAith scales and without crests ; femora and tibiae 
fringed with rather long hair ; abdomen Avith dorsal crests 
on tAvo basal segments and small lateral tufts of rather long 
hair. Fore Aving typically with the costa somewhat excised 
at middle and arched toAvards apex Avhich is produced and 
acute, the termen excised beloAv apex and strongly excurved 
at middle, then oblique ; \ r eins 3 and 5 from near angle of 
cell ; (i from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing Avith 8 
to form the areole ; 11 from cell ; the male Avith a very large 
