FOCILLOPIS. — DEEPAKOPERAS. 
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vein 6, defined by a fine white line and with the indistinct 
oblique waved brown postmedial line from it to inner 
margin ; a faint curved waved brown subterminal line ; a 
series of blackish points before* termen slightly defined on 
■outer side by whitish, the two points towards apex distinctly 
defined by white. Hind wing red-brown suffused with 
purplish grey ; a faint curved brown medial line ; an in- 
distinct rather diffused curved red-brown postmedial line 
with whitish points at the veins ; traces of a slightly waved 
broAvn subterminal line defined on inner side by grey ; a 
series of blackish points before termen slightly defined on 
outer side by whitish ; cilia chocolate-brown. Underside 
reddish brown suffused with grey ; fore wing with the costal 
area suffused with white to towards apex, a rather quadrate 
black-brown spot in middle of cell defined by white scales, 
an indistinct rather diffused curved brown medial line from 
costa to submedian fold, postmedial line white, strongly 
excurved, indistinct except towards costa, the terminal 
area darker red-brown, oblique towards costa and angled 
inwards at vein 6 to the postmedial line, a series of white 
points before termen, slight except towards apex ; hind wing 
with indistinct curved brown medial line, a curved post- 
medial series of ochreous and brown points, and a series of 
dark points before termen. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi {Sanders), 1 $ ; S. Nigeria, 
Old Calabar {Rutherford, Crompton), 1 U, 1 $ ; Cameroons, 
Ja R., Bitje {Bates), 1 <$, 2 $ type. Exp. 36-42 millim. 
Genus DREPANOPERAS, nov. 
Type, D. falcigera, Walk. {Plaxia), xv. 1629 (1858). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely 
upturned and reaching to vertex of head, moderately scaled 
in front and fringed with hair behind towards extremity, 
the 3rd short, thick, porrect, fringed with hair above ; 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 Avithout crests ; tibiae fringed Avith 
long hair, the fore tibia- 1 of male Avith thick fringe of long 
hair from inner side ; abdomen with some rough hair at 
base of dorsum but Avithout crests. Fore Aving A\ith the 
costa highly arched towards apex Avhich is strongly falcate, 
the termen excurved at middle and not crenulate ; veins 3 
and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 
anastomosing Avith 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 
wing Avith the cell half the length of whig ; veins 3, 4 from 
angle ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from 
upper angle ; 8 anastomosing Avith the cell near base only. 
