MESOSCIERA. 
533 
excurved and with the outer line again darker ; postmedial 
line rather diffused dark brown, oblique and faint to vein 6, 
then distinct and with a brown shade beyond it, excurved 
to vein 3, then incurved ; subterminal line with a slight 
brown bar above vein 7 and small rufous and dark brown 
spot further from termen below 7, then a faint diffused curved 
brown line ; a series of minute blackish spots before termen. 
Hind wing brown suffused with leaden grey and irrorated 
with a few black-brown and whitish scales, especially beyond 
lower angle of cell and along vein 1 ; a series of blackish 
points before termen and a slight dark terminal line. Under- 
side grey-brown sparsely irrorated with black-brown scales 
except on inner and terminal areas. 
Hcib. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar {Crompton), 1 $, Sapele 
{Sampson), 1 <J, 1 $ type ; Natal, Durban {Clark), 1 
Exp. 38-40 millim. 
Mesosciera rubrinotata, n. sp. 
<?• Head grey-brown, the frontal tuft edged with white, 
the basal joint of antennae white in front, the palpi grey- 
brown and white ; teg u he pale red-brown with some white 
at edges ; thorax creamy white ; legs and abdomen whitish 
suffused with pale red-brown. Fore wing whitish tinged 
with red-brown and irrorated with a few brown scales ; ante- 
medial line with a slight dark brown mark at costa, then 
reddish brown, incurved in the cell and waved below the cell ; 
a dark brown point in middle of cell and three on discocellu- 
lars ; postmedial line brown, dentate and produced to slight 
blackish and white points at the veins, excurved to vein 4, 
then incurved, a rufous band beyond it between veins 6 and 3 
and in submedian interspace ; some slight brown marks on 
costa towards apex ; a dentate brown subterminal line from 
vein 6 to inner margin, with a brown streak beyond it below 
vein 4, extending to the cilia ; a series of minute blackish 
spots before termen and a terminal series of blackish striae. 
Hind wing whitish tinged with red-brown and irrorated with 
a few dark brown scales ; a minute dark brown spot at lower 
angle of cell and traces of an oblique sinuous brown line 
from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 
brown, dentate and produced to blackish and white points 
at the veins, curved ; a faint waved brown subterminal 
line ; a series of blackish points before termen and a terminal 
series of slight blackish striae. Underside whitish tinged with 
red-brown ; both wings with curved dentate brown post- 
medial line with dark points at the veins and series of minute 
blackish spots before termen. 
Hab. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar {Crompton), 1 $ type. Exp. 
30 millim. 
