DEVENA. ATHYSANIA. 
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Genus DEVENA. 
Devena, Walk. xii. 965 (1857) atomifera , Walk. 
Devena strigania, n. sp. 
3 - Head and thorax red-brown, the vertex of head and 
teguke with a slight pale streak ; pectus whitish tinged 
with red-brown ; abdomen red-brown with a greyish tinge, 
the ventral surface white tinged with red- brown. Fore wing 
red-brown irrorated and striated with dark brown except 
at base. Hind wing dark red-brown, the cilia whitish at 
tips. Underside of fore wing pale reddish brown, the costa 
and apical part of termen whitish irrorated with brown, 
the inner area whitish ; hind wing whitish tinged with red- 
brown and slightly striated with brown except on inner area. 
Hab. Congo ( Marsden ), 1 <J type. Exp. 44 millim. 
Genus ATHYSANIA. 
Athysania, Hiibn. Verz. p. 263 (1827) 
Type. 
chorinea, Stoll. 
Athysania indentata, n. sp. 
$■ Head white, the antennae red-brown, red-brown spots 
at sides of frons and the palpi tinged with red- brown except 
in front ; thorax red- brown mixed with white and some 
opalescent silver, the teguke whiter at base and with rufous 
medial line, the patagia edged with rufous above ; pectus 
and legs white, the latter suffused with rufous ; abdomen 
orange, the ventral surface yellowish white. Fore wing 
white suffused with rufous ; a velvety chocolate-brown 
cornucopia-shaped patch edged with silvery white from well 
before middle to well beyond the cell extending from just 
below costa to just above inner margin, its apex above the 
inner margin towards base ; an oblique silvery white sub- 
basal .line from costa to submedian fold and an oblique 
slightly waved silvery white antemedial hue just before the 
patch ; the scale-tooth red-brown, a small red-brown spot 
on the lower edge of the patch towards its extremity and a 
quadrate spot below its extremity ; the outer edge of the 
patch slightly dentate to discal fold, where it is angled inwards 
and incurved between vein 4 and submedian fold, the white 
line defining it followed by a rufous line, dentate to discal 
fold, then maculate, followed by another faint maculate 
rufous line from costa to submedian fold ; traces of a dentate 
blackish subterminal line with black points at the veins 
ending on termen above tornus ; a series of chocolate-brown 
points just before termen from apex to vein 2. Hind wing 
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