5S8 
XOCTUIDE. 
antemedial line ; a faint oblique red-brown medial line from 
costa to lower angle of cell, the fovea beyond which is white, 
then an incurved dark brown line ; postmedial line double, 
curved, represented by minute dark spots to vein 2, then 
by striae, some white points with dark brown between them 
beyond it on costa ; subterminal line fine, white, slightly 
waved, angled outwards at vein 7 to near termen ; a pale 
terminal line with slight dark marks before it in the inter- 
spaces ; cilia dark brown. Hind wing deep red-brown 
mixed with whitish and dark brown ; an indistinct curved 
dark antemedial line ; postmedial line dark, somewhat 
angled outwards at discal and submedian folds ; a waved 
white subterminal line ; a pale terminal line with slight 
dark marks before it in the interspaces ; cilia red-brown 
and dark brown. Underside red-brown mixed with white 
and dark brown ; fore wing with medial line white and oblique 
towards costa, then black-brown and erect, postmedial line 
with minute white spot at costa, below vein 7 black-brown, 
excurved to vein 4, then erect, the white subterminal line 
diffused to discal fold, then interrupted to vein 4 ; hind 
wing with blackish antemedial line, small discoidal spot, 
postmedial line angled at discal fold and rather diffused 
maculate white subterminal line with small black lunules on 
it above and below vein 7. 
Hab. Sierra Leoxe {Clements), 4 type. Exp. 20-22 
mi Him. 
Genus POLYSCIERA, nor. 
Type, P. manleyi, Leech ( Egnasia ), Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, 
p. 609. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 
2nd joint about twice the length of head and moderately 
fringed with hair in front and behind, the 3rd moderate and 
thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with small tuft of hair above ; 
eyes large, round ; antennae of female with slight bristles 
and cilia ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and 
without crests ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen 
smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the 
costa moderately arched towards apex which is rounded, the 
termen oblique below vein 4, 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 ; 1 1 from cell. Hind 
wing with the termen somewhat excised at discal fold and 
angled at vein 4 ; the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 
from angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from 
upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 
near base only. 
