506 
NOCTUIDj:. 
red -brown patch from costa where it extends to the apex 
to vein 5 ; antemedial line double, brown, waved, a small 
whitish spot beyond it in upper part of cell ; reniform grey 
with some rufous on its inner edge and brown striga in centre, 
large with rather irregular outline ; postmedial line brown, 
oblique towards costa, then somew hat dentate and indistinctly 
double, incurved in submedian interspace ; subterminal line 
indistinctly double, brown filled in with rufous, obsolete at 
costa, then somewhat dentate, incurved at discal fold and 
below vein 3, an oblique dark red-brown shade from it at 
discal fold to termen at vein 4 ; a lunulate black line before 
termen. Hind wing grey irrorated with brown and suffused 
with red- brown except at inner area and on terminal area 
below' discal fold, rather diffused and slightly waved brown 
medial and postmedial lines from vein 6 to inner margin ; 
an indistinctly double dentate brown subterminal line filled 
in with rufous from discal fold to inner margin ; a series of 
small black lunules just before termen. Underside greyish 
suffused and irrorated with reddish brown ; fore wing with 
straight erect brown postmedial line arising below the costa 
and defined on each side by grey, followed by a broad red- 
brown shade with the slightly waved grey subterminal line 
on it arising below 7 the costa, bent outw ards at vein 7 and 
ending at vein 3 ; hind wing with rather diffused curved 
medial and postmedial red-brown lines, excurved above 
inner margin, and broad red -brown subterminal shade with 
the waved grey subterminal line on it. 
Hab. S. Nigeria, Sapele (Sampson), 1 $ type ; Uganda, 
Entebbe ( Minchin ), 1 <§. Exp. 46 millim. 
Genus DREPANOPSES, nov. 
Type, I), rufipicta. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 
2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head, moderately 
scaled in front and fringed with hair behind except at base, 
the 3rd moderate, with large tuft of hair behind ; frons 
smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae 
of male with bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed with hair 
and scales mixed and wdthout crests ; tibiae moderately 
fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base of 
dorsum but without crests. Fore wing with the apex some- 
what produced and falcate, the termen slightly excised 
below apex, excurved at middle, then oblique, hardly crenu- 
late ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 
angle ; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 
1 1 from cell ; male with large fold on basal half of costa on 
underside, fringed with hair below and containing tufts of 
long hair. Hind wing with the tornus obliquely truncate ; 
