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NOCTl'ID.E. 
spot at inner margin ; a terminal series of minute dark 
brown spots. Hind wing ochreous yellow tinged with rufous 
and irrorated with red-brown ; a faint waved red-brown 
postmedial line, excurved beyond lower angle of cell and 
with dark brown spot at inner margin ; a minutely waved 
brown subterminal line slightly angled outwards at vein 3 ; 
a terminal series of minute dark brown spots. Underside 
ochreous yellow tinged with rufous and irrorated with red- 
brown ; fore wing with dark discoidal bar, faint brown 
postmedial line with black spot at costa, excurved below 
costa and at middle, and dark subterminal line slightly 
bent inwards at vein 3 ; hind wing with dark discoidal bar, 
indistinct red-brown postmedial line, excurved below costa 
and at middle, and somewhat dentate dark subterminal 
line. 
Hab. Cameroons, Ja R., Bitje (Bates), 1 type. Exp. 
24 millim. 
Genus NYCTENNOMOS, nov. 
Type, N . peratosema. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 
2nd joint reaching to well above vertex of head and fringed 
with hair in front and behind, the 3rd long and fringed with 
hair in front and behind ; frons smooth with large tuft of 
hair above ; eyes large, round ; antenna) of female with 
bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed with rough hair and scales 
and without crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; 
abdomen with some rough hair at base of dorsum but without 
crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen oblique 
below vein 4, not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle 
of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 
9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from 
cell. Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing ; veins 
3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 
6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 
base only. 
Nyctennomos peratosema, n. sp. 
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous ; palpi, antennae 
and legs tinged with red-brown. Fore wing ochreous irrorated 
with red-brown ; antemedial line pale red-brown, oblique 
and slightly curved ; an oblique slightly sinuous pale red- 
brown medial line ; reniform faintly defined by pale red- 
brown ; postmedial line pale red-brown, oblique and straight ; 
a lunulate chocolate-brown patch on termen from apex to 
vein 4, the cilia pale red-brown from it to tornus. Hind 
wing ochreous yellow ; a pale red-brown postmedial line 
angled outwards at vein 1 and a slight subterminal line ; 
