582 
noctuida:. 
outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, a subterminal 
series of small black spots defined on inner side by white 
towards costa, then faintly by whitish ; hind wing white 
thickly irrorated and striated with red-brown, a slight dark 
discoidal striga, medial line excurved beyond the cell, slightly 
waved postmedial line, waved white subterminal line defined 
on inner side by red-brown, a blackish terminal line, lunulate 
and defined on inner side by white below vein 4. 
Hab. S. Nigeria, Ilesha ( Humfrey ), 1 $ type. Exp. 
24 millim. 
Genus MICROSELENE, nov. 
Type, M. mesostipa. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to far above vertex of head, moderately fringed with 
hair in front, produced to a slight point at extremity and 
angled with hair behind at middle, the 3rd long, with tuft of 
hair behind towards extremity which is acuminate ; frons 
smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae 
of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely 
with scales and without crests ; build slender ; mid and hind 
tibiae with slight tufts of hair at the spurs ; abdomen smoothly 
scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex produced 
and acute, the termen oblique below vein 4 and hardly crenu- 
late ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 
angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole 
and 10 rather approximated to 8, 9 just beyond the areole ; 
1 1 from cell. Hind wing with the termen produced to a slight 
point at vein 7 and angled at vein 4, then crenulate ; the cell 
nearly half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully 
developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 
upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Microselene mesostipa, n. sp. 
3. Head, thorax, and base of abdomen red-brown mixed 
with ochreous whitish, the rest of abdomen blackish brown 
mixed with white and with white segmental lines ; antennae 
red-brown ringed with white towards base ; palpi dark 
brown mixed with whitish, the 3rd joint white at base and 
tips ; pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen white 
irrorated with dark brown, the tarsi black-brown ringed 
with white. Fore wing reddish brown irrorated with blackish 
and shot with blue-grey in certain lights ; an oblique black 
antemcdial striga from costa defined on inner side by white ; 
a narrow semihyaline white lunule in middle of cell and two 
black discoidal points ; a dark medial shade, oblique to 
