488 
VOCTUIDif 
and smoothly scaled ; irons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; 
eyes large, round ; antennae of female with bristles and cilia ; 
thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests ; 
tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with some 
rough hair at base of dorsum but without crests. Fore 
wing with the costa moderately arched towards apex which 
is somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved 
and 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 cell about one-third 
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. 
Euaethiops cyanopasta, n. sp. 
jp! . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with 
grey ; palpi with the 3rd joint whitish at base ; pectus and 
ventral surface of abdomen grey ; tarsi brown ringed with 
grey. Fore wing reddish brown tinged with grey, the medial 
area tinged with purple, the basal and costal areas dark 
brown irrorated with silvery blue ; antemedial line indistinct, 
darkly defined by silvery blue scales ; a minute dark spot in 
the cell towards extremity ; reniform with silvery blue 
annulus and its centre defined by blackish, elliptical ; post- 
medial line blackish, slightly bent outwards below costa, then 
waved, oblique to vein 3, then incurved ; some white points 
beyond it on costa and a diffused silvery blue mark below 
costa ; subterminal line whitish towards costa and incurved 
below costa, then very faint dark and waved with a deep red- 
brown patch before it below vein 7 ; a slight waved dark 
terminal line ; cilia grey-brown with a fine pale line at base. 
Hind wing pale red-brown slightly irrorated with darker 
red-brown ; an indistinct dark red-brown antemedial patch 
below the cell ; a faint dark discoidal striga and oblique line 
from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; a waved blackish 
postmedial line, excurved beyond lower angle of cell, then 
oblique ; an indistinct waved dark subterminal line diffused 
on outer side ; a waved dark terminal line ; cilia grey-brown 
with a fine line at base. Underside grey-brown ; both wings 
with indistinct curved dark postmedial line. 
Hnb. S. Nigeria, Lagos (Bong), I 9 type. Exp. 3(i millim. 
Genus MEC0DIN0PS, nov. 
Type, M. anceps, Mab. (Thermesia), Bull. Soc. Phil. 1879, 
p. 142 ; Saalm. Lep. Madag., p. 472, f. 140 (1891). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 
2nd joint reaching to vertex of head, moderately scaled in 
