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NOCTUIDJE. 
Gonioscia meroleuca, n. sp. 
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish suffused with rufous 
and irrorated with a few black scales, the teguke brighter 
rufous ; antennse black-brown ; palpi legs and ventral surface 
of abdomen more strongly irrorated with black. Fore wing 
ochreous suffused with rufous and sparsely irrorated with 
black ; small black spots in middle of cell and on disco- 
cellulars ; an oblique red-brown line from apex to inner 
margin beyond middle ; subterminal line brown defined on 
inner side by whitish suffusion, arising from the oblique 
line, slightly waved, excurved at middle and incurved below 
vein 4 ; the apical part of costal area and the terminal area 
deeper rufous ; a crenulate brown terminal line forming 
points at the interspaces ; cilia dark brown at tips. Hind 
wing ochreous suffused with rufous and sparsely irrorated 
with black, the base, costal area to beyond middle and 
postmedial area whitish ; a dark bar on upper discocellular ; 
postmedial line brown, oblique, rather bent outwards to 
costa ; subterminal line brownish, defining the pale post- 
medial area, excurved at middle and strongly incurved below 
costa and vein 4 ; a crenulate brown terminal line forming 
points at the interspaces ; cilia dark brown at tips Under- 
side ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with black ; 
fore wing with small black discoidal spot. 
Hnb. Gold Coast, Bibianaha (Spurred), 1 $ type, Kumasi 
(Sanders), 1 $. Exp. 58 millim. 
Genus GORGONIA. 
Goryoniit, Hiibn. Vorz. p. 270 (1827) ortilia, Stoll. 
Apistig. Hiibn. Verz. p. 271 (1827) fellvaris, Hiibn. 
Hypenaria , Guen. Noct. iii. j». 381 (1852) ortilia. Stoll. 
Flavin , Guen. Noct. iii. p. 33o (1852) .. macarea. Cram. 
Gorgonia brachygm a. n. -p 
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown ; antennte 
black-brown, white in front towards base ; palpi with the 
extremity of the 2nd joint and the 3rd joint dark brown, the 
latter white at extreme tips ; spurs and tarsi ringed dark 
brown and white ; ventral surface of abdomen pale scarlet. 
Fore wing red-brown with a greyish tinge ; a deeper red- 
brown shade from terminal part of costa where it is very 
broad, narrowing to inner margin before and beyond the 
postmedial line ; an indistinct waved dark brown ante- 
medial line, incurved in the cell and at vein 1 ; a small dark 
brown annulus filled in with grey-white in middle of cell, 
similar but minute annulus at upper angle, a dark point at 
lower angle ; postmedial line rufous, obliquely downcurved to 
