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line from costa to vein 3, slightly defined on outer side by 
silver and excurved at vein 7, some black suffusion before its 
lower extremity above a patch from vein 3 just beyond 
the postmedial line to terminal part of inner margin, the 
patch defined by a slightly sinuous black line with silvery 
inside it, rounded above and narrowing somewhat to inner 
margin ; a triangular blackish patch defined by whitish on 
terminal area from below apex to vein 3. Hind wing grey- 
brown. Underside grey- white suffused with brown. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Aburi ( Armstrong ), 1 $ type ; S. Nigeria, 
Sapele {Sampson), 1 ; Madagascar, Betsileo {Cowan), 1 <$. 
Exp. 30-34 millim. 
Plusicdonta euclialcia, n. sp. 
§. Head and thorax bright red-brown mixed with some 
whitish ; antennae blackish ; palpi irrorated with a few 
white scales ; abdomen grev-brown, the anal tuft whitish ; 
legs dark brown, the tarsi slightly ringed with white ; pectus 
and ventral surface of abdomen white irrorated with brown. 
Fore wing bright red-brown, the antemedial area, the post- 
medial area except a fascia below vein 3 and the terminal 
area towards tornus brilliant metallic gold irrorated with 
red-brown, the rest of medial area except towards costa 
and the apical part of terminal area with a slight golden gloss, 
the medial area with slight bluish white irroration ; a faint 
waved subbasal line from costa to vein .1 ; antemedial line 
slight, brown, irregularly waved, bent inwards at median 
nervure and outwards above vein 1 ; a faint inwardly 
oblique waved brown medial line with some white scales on 
it, another darker line arising from it at subcostal nervure, 
bent outwards to before the reniform and oblique below the 
cell ; reniform defined by red-brown ; postmedial line slight, 
dark brown, excurved below costa, incurved at cliscal fold, 
excurved beyond lower angle of cell and with silvery points 
on its outer side above and below vein 4, then obliquely 
incurved and slightly waved ; a maculate golden subterminal 
band defined by waved black lines from below costa to vein 3, 
incurved below vein 6, and an irregular patch defined by 
waved black lines from above vein 2 to inner margin at 
tornus ; a terminal series of white striae and the cilia dark 
brown mixed with white from apex to vein 3. Hind wing 
grey-brown, the cilia white at tips. Underside of fore wing 
fuscous brown, the inner area bluish grey ; hind wing bluish 
white tinged with brown. 
Hab. Be. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje ( Neave ), 1 2 type. Exp. 
42 millim. 
