MKSOSCIEItA. — RSEUDOGERESPA. 
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discoidal points ; a rather oblique red-brown shade before 
the postmedial line except at costa ; postmedial line brown, 
waved to vein 3, then incurved ; a similar but faint line 
beyond it ; traces of a subterminal series of blackish points 
with larger spots above and below vein 5 ; the terminal area 
suffused with red-brown, narrowing to termen above tornus. 
Hind wing pale purplish grey tinged with rufous and irrorated 
witn a few black scales ; a faint red-brown medial shade, 
angled outwards and with black points on its outer edge at 
veins 4, 3 ; cilia red-brown. Underside pale purplish grey 
irrorated with blackish ; fore wing with faint sinuous post- 
medial line and slightly curved subterminal line ; hind wing 
with traces of a waved postmedial line with slight black 
points at the veins. 
Hob. Gold Coast, Obuassi (Bergman), 1 $, Kumasi 
{Sanders), 1 $ type. Exp. 40-46 millim. 
Genus PSEUDOGERESPA, nov. 
Type, P. usipetes, Druce (Melipotis), Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. 
ii. p. 510, pi. 96. f. 23 (1S98). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi of male with the 2nd joint 
upturned to vertex of head, broad, rather hollowed out at 
sides and smoothly scaled in front, the 3rd minute, porrect 
and lying on the 2nd joint, of female with the 2nd joint 
oblique, rather bent forward at extremity where it is angled 
with hair in front, the 3rd long and dilated at extremity ; 
frons smooth, with ridge of hair above ; eyes large, round ; 
antennse of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex ; 
thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without 
crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with 
some rough hair at base of dorsum but without crests. Fore 
wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 
not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 
upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 
areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell half the 
length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed 
from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 
mosing with the cell near base only. 
Pseudogerespa diopis, n. sp. 
2. Head and thorax dark olive- brown tinged with grey, 
the antennse blackish, the palpi pale red-brown, the 3rd joint 
blackish -with white tips ; abdomen grey-brown ; pectus, 
legs and ventral surface of abdomen grey-brown mixed 
with some white, the tibiae at extremities and tarsi ringed 
with white. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas 
