DREPANOPSES. 
507 
the cell nearly half the length of wing ; vein 3 from before 
angle ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from 
upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only ; 
male with the basal half of inner area clothed with rough 
woolly hair on underside. 
Drepaixopses rufipicta, n. sp. 
Head and thorax pale grey tinged and slightly irrorated 
with red-brown ; antennae ringed with black ; palpi bright 
red -brown, the tuft of scales on 3rd joint above grey irrorated 
with brown ; pectus and fore and mid legs in front bright 
red- brown, the tarsi dark brown ; abdomen pale grey tinged 
with red-brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing 
violaceous grey irrorated with a few dark brown scales ; a 
curved brown subbasal line from costa to vein 1 with a patch 
of bright red -brown beyond it on costal area ; traces of an 
oblique sinuous brown antemedial line with a slight rufous 
mark at costa ; a small round pale grey spot defined by dark 
brown at middle of upper part of cell with a rufous mark 
above it on costa ; reniform pale grey defined by dark red- 
brown and with curved dark brown striga in centre, large 
and with rather irregular outline, a rufous mark above it 
on costa ; a broad dark red-brown medial shade irrorated 
Avith grey and with Avaved edges from subcostal nervure to 
inner margin ; postmedial line broAra, slightly AvaA^ed, some- 
Avhat oblique to discal fold and incurved beloAv vein 3 ; the 
postmedial area bright rufous from costa to discal fold ; 
subterminal line double, red -brown filled in with grey, 
obsolescent betAveen veins 4 and 2, waved, incurved at discal 
fold and beloAv vein 4, some bright rufous before it at middle 
and toAvarcls inner margin ; a diffused rufous mark before 
middle of termen and a series of small red- brown lunules 
just before termen. Hind Aving pale grey, the costal area 
and inner margin AA r hitish, some dark brown irroration along 
vein 1 and on terminal area except toAvards apex ; an 
interrupted slightly waved dark broAvn postmedial line from 
discal fold to inner margin ; a double someAvhat maculate 
and slightly waved dark brown subterminal line from A r ein 6 
to inner margin ; a series of small dark brown lunules just 
before termen. Underside whitish tinged and irrorated with 
red-broAvn ; fore Aving with the inner area white, a rather 
diffused erect broAvn postmedial line from beloAA' costa to 
vein 2, and a broad rufous subterminal shade from below 
costa to vein 3 ; hind wing with patch of red-broAvn suffusion 
on costal area before middle, indistinct curved postmedial 
line, and double diffused wa\ T ed subterminal line. 
Hab. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar ( Cockburn ), 1 <$, Sapele 
{Sampson), 1 1 $ type. Exp. 50-54 millim. 
