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NOCTUIUJC. 
Strongylosia semiflava, n. sp. 
Head and thorax orange-yellow, the latter irrorated 
with a few brown scales ; antennae and palpi red -brown ; 
pectus and legs paler yellow, the fore and mid tibiae and the 
tarsi suffused with red-brown ; abdomen orange-yellow at 
base, then pale yellow slightly tinged with rufous, the anal 
tuft with black patch above and black below, the ventral 
surface pale yellow. Fore wing orange-yellow irrorated with 
a few black scales, the terminal area rufous with some 
violaceous white suffusion beyond the postmedial line and at 
ape ; x ; antemedial line indistinct, fulvous yellow, oblique, 
slightly incurved at vein 1, a dark point on it in the cell ; a 
slight fulvous discoidal spot ; postmedial line double, red- 
brown filled in with rufous tinged with violaceous, erect, 
the inner line slightly sinuous,* a dentate blackish mark 
beyond it below vein 7, then a slight dentate blackish line 
defined on outer side bv some white scales ; cilia dark brown 
with a fine white line at base. Hind wing yellow, the terminal 
area rufous tinged with violaceous white and with slight 
streaks of black scales on veins 5 to 2 ; a double red-brown 
line filled in with rufous tinged with violaceous white from 
costa beyond middle to tornus, very slightly excurved at 
middle ; cilia dark brown to vein 2 with a white line at base, 
then whitish tinged with brown. Underside of fore wing 
yellow slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with a few 
black scales, the inner area whitish, a small black spot in 
middle of cell, discoidal point, and faint erect postmedial 
line ; hind wing yellowish white, the costal area yellower 
irrorated with a few black scales, the terminal area irrorated 
with a few dark scales to vein 3, a faint postmedial line. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi ( Whiteside ), 2 £ type. Exp. 
26 millim. 
Genus STRIAPTERA. nov. 
Tvpe, S. cinnamomeus , B.-Bkr. ( Camptoch ilus), Nov. Zool. 
xv. p. 224 (1908). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 
2nd joint reaching to well above vertex of head, broadly 
scaled in front and very broadly behind except towards 
base, the 3rd rather long and broadly tufted with scales in 
front and behind ; frons with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, 
round ; antennae of female almost simple : thorax clothed 
entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae slightly fringed 
with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the 
costa arched, the apex somewhat produced, the termen 
slightly excised below apex and excurved at middle, then 
oblique, slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 
cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 1 1 from 
