51(5 
N0CTUID.E. 
at extremity, its lower part angled inwards at median nervure 
and slightly outwards at vein 3 ; postmedial line indistinct 
and whitish except towards costa and inner margin where 
it is pure white, oblique to above vein 6, then rather oblique, 
incurved and slightly'- sinuous below vein 3 ; faint traces of a 
pale waved subterminal line with a slight whitish subterminal 
spot below vein 8 ; some white scales on costa just before 
apex ; cilia with a fine whitish line at base and white tips 
between veins 4 and 1. Hind wing black-brown tinged with 
grey ; a quadrate semihyaline white discoidal spot, its lower 
extremity somewhat produced and bilobate ; postmedial line 
very indistinct, dark and excurved to vein 4, then incurved 
with whitish striae on it and ending at tornus ; cilia with a 
fine pale line at base, wholly white from vein 3 to submedian 
fold, then with white tips to vein 1. Underside dark reddish 
brown irrorated with white ; fore wing with small antemedial 
white spot in the cell, the discoidal mark defined by black 
and with black spot on its lower edge, the postmedial line 
as above but slightly waved between veins 6 and 2, sub- 
terminal line white, slightly excurved above vein (5, then 
less distinct, slightly angled inwards above vein 2, then bent 
outwards to tornus, some white beyond it on apical part of 
costa ; hind wing with the discoidal mark defined by black 
strife, the postmedial line excurved and waved beyond the 
cell, traces of a sinuous whitish subterminal line ending on 
termen at vein 1. 
Ab. 1. Rather paler with a slight red-brown tinge ; fore 
wing with minute subterminal white spot and bar on costal 
area ; hind wing with the postmedial line whiter and more 
distinct except towards costa, the underside with black- 
brown patch beyond it on submedian interspace. — Nigeria. 
Hab. S. Nigeria, Itu ( Farquahar ), 1 ; Uganda, Unyoro, 
Buguma Forest ( Neave ), 1 <$ type. Exp. 34-38 millim. 
Genus AMPHIONGIA nov. 
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Type, A. chordophoides, Lucas (Zetlies), Pr. R. Soc. Queensl. 
viii. 1892, p. 89. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 1st joint 
fringed with rather long hair in front and slightly behind, 
the 2nd moderately scaled in front and fringed with hair 
behind except towards base, the 3rd long and smoothly 
scaled ; frons smooth, .with large tuft of hair above ; eyes 
large, round ; antennae of male typically bipectinate with 
rather long branches to near apex, the apex with bristles and 
cilia ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without 
crests ; tibiae fringed with rather long hair ; abdomen with 
some rough hair at base of dorsum but without crests. Fore 
