532 
K OCT IT 1 1) 3',. 
slightly waved postmedial line and two subterminal lines 
wdth black points at the veins, the terminal area suffused 
with grey-brown towards apex. 
Ab. 1. Strongly suffused with grey-brown; fore wing 
with paler patch beyond the cell. 
Hob. Gold Coast, Bibianaha ( Spurrell ), 2 ; S. Nigeria, 
Lagos, Ebute Meta ( Boag ), 1 <$, Sapele (Sampson), 1 $ ; 
Cameroons, Ja R., Bitje, 1 type. Exp. 42-48 millim. 
Genus MESOSCIERA, nor. 
Type, M. typica. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, rather slenderly scaled in front 
and slightly fringed with hair behind towards extremity, 
the 3rd moderate and thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with 
ridge of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male 
typically with bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed almost 
entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae slightly fringed 
with hair ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. 
Fore wing with the costa highly arched towards apex which is 
produced and somewhat falcate, the termen excised below 
apex and angled at vein 4, not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 
near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 
mosing 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 above angle ; 6, 7 from upper 
angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Mesosciera picta, n. sp. 
Head and tegulse whitish suffused with brown, the antennae 
dark brown, the palpi reddish brow r n ; thorax and abdomen 
brown suffused with leaden grey, the patagia with a few 
dark brown scales, the pectus ventrally whitish, the legs 
darker brown. Fore wing brown suffused with leaden grey 
and irrorated with a few black-brown scales, especially on 
basal area ; traces of a brown antemedial line, arising at 
median nervure, oblique to vein 1, then erect ; a wiiite point 
in middle of cell and white discoidal striga defined on inner 
side by dark brown, slightly bent outwards at upper ex- 
tremity ; the area from end of cell to the postmedial line 
bright rufous from vein 6 to inner margin and with slight 
oblique streak above it at base of vein 7 ; medial line double, 
brown, arising at vein 0 beyond the cell, the outer line dark 
and excurved to discal fold, then less distinct and dentate 
to vein 2, then rather bent inwards and erect and straight 
to vein l defining the inner edge of the rufous area, then 
