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postmedial line excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; hind wing 
with black discoidal spot and sinuous maculate postmedial 
line. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi (Sanders), 1 ^type ; S. Nigeria, 
Old Calabar {Sampson), 2 Yaba ( Mac fie ), 1 <$. Exp. 
30-36 millim. 
Genus SYSSTREMA. 
Sysstrema, Herr.-Schaff. Ausser-eur. Schmett. p. 69 Type. 
(1858) crassicornis , H.-Sch. 
Sysstrema ennomodes, n. sp. 
(J. Vertex of head and thorax deep chocolate-brown tinged 
with purplish red ; frons pale red-brown, chocolate-brown at 
sides ; antennae pale in front ; palpi rufous, the 3rd joint 
creamy white ; pectus and legs rufous, the femora fringed 
with fiery red hair ; abdomen red-brown at base, then pale 
rufous, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing rufous tinged 
with grey and irrorated with brown ; a broad oblique deep 
chocolate-brown shade from the medial line beyond the cell 
to inner margin near base ; antemedial line chocolate-brown 
with an oblique bar from costa, angled outwards below costa 
and incurved from just below the cell ; a small round white 
spot in end of cell ; medial line chocolate-brown, bent 
outwards beyond the cell where it is defined on outer side 
by whitish and dentate at veins 6, 5, 4, on inner edge of a 
faint figure-of-eight-shaped reniform, then strongly incurved 
and angled outwards at vein 1 ; postmedial line chocolate- 
brown defined on inner side by white, oblique and almost 
straight, the costal area before it whitish, the area beyond 
it deep red-brown to the subterminal line from costa to vein 2, 
then narrowing to inner margin ; subterminal line red-brown 
with a few grey scales on it, minutely waved, incurved at 
discal fold and oblique below vein 3 ; a fine waved dark 
terminal line. Hind wing rufous tinged with grey and 
irrorated with brown ; an indistinct oblique antemedial 
brown line from cell to inner margin and discoidal bar ; a 
slightly curved deep red-brown postmedial line faintly defined 
on inner side by ochreous and on outer side by a broad dark 
brown shade to vein 3, then a narrower deep rufous shade ; 
a curved subterminal series of slight dark brown and grey 
spots from costa to vein 2 and an oblique bar in submedian 
interspace ; a slight waved brown terminal line. Underside 
of fore wing with the basal area and the costal area to the 
postmedial line ochreous tinged with red-brown, the rest of 
wing deep rufous with some dark brown suffusion and some 
white suffusion at apex, a browff medial line excurved to 
