420 
XOCTUIDJE. 
wing bright chestnut-red, the costa chocolate-brown tinged 
with grey ; antemedial line brown, excurved in submedian 
interspaces and angled inwards at vein 1 ; a brown point in 
middle of cell and discoidal striga with white point at lower 
angle of cell, the terminal part of cell with a yellowish tinge ; 
two indistinct slightly dentate brown postmedial lines, in- 
curved below vein 3, a semicircular white spot beyond them 
on costa ; a faint dentate brown subterminal line, incurved 
between veins 6 and 4 ; a fine red-brown terminal line. 
Hind wing bright chestnut-red ; a dark brown point at 
lower angle of cell ; two indistinct dentate brown postmedial 
lines, incurved below vein 4 ; two indistinct dentate brown 
subterminal lines ; a fine red-brown terminal line. Under- 
side of fore wing pale rufous with the inner area white, a 
faint oblique brown line just beyond the cell and a waved 
red- brown postmedial line ; hind wing white tinged with 
rufous, the terminal area suffused with rufous, a very slightly 
waved red-brown postmedial line excurved to vein 4 and a 
waved red-brown subterminal line. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing without the postmedial white spot on 
costa. 
Hah. S. Nigeria, Lagos ( Strachan ), 1 $, Old Calabar 
(' Cock-burn , Crompton, Sampson), 5 q , 3 $ type ; Sapele 
{Sampson), 2 g, 5 $. Exp. 46-54 millim. 
Genus ECLIPSEA. nov. 
Type, E. lima, Hmpsn. ( Avitta ), 111. Het. B.M. viii. p. 100, 
pi. 148. f. 21 (1891) ; id. Moths Ind. iii. p. 21 (1895). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, moderately scaled in front and 
slightly fringed with hair behind towards extremity, the 3rd 
long and smoothly scaled ; frons smooth with tuft of hair 
above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male with bristles 
and cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the 
pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; build rather 
slender ; fore and mid tibiae moderately fringed with hair, 
the hind tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen with some rough 
hair at base of dorsum but without crests, rather long in 
male. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 
curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 
cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 
to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the tornus 
obliquely truncate ; the cell half the length of wing ; veins 
3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 
from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 
only. 
