ILY11GTS. DERCETIS. 
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a white subterminal line angled outwards below vein 7 and 
excurved at middle ; hind wing dark red-brown irrorated 
with whitish, the inner area white irrorated with brown, a 
slight dark discoidal spot, slight waved postmedial line, and 
white subterminal line. 
Hob. Dutch N. Guinea, Kapaur {Doherty), 2 type ; 
Br. N. Guinea, Milne Bay [Meek), 1 £ ; D’Entrecasteaux 
Is., Fergusson I. {Meek), 1 $. Exp. 20-26 millim. 
Ilyrgis ethiopica, n. sp. 
(J. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish suffused with pale 
red-brown ; antennae dark brown, white towards base ; palpi 
dark brown, white in front, the tuft on 2nd joint and the 
3rd joint with white mixed ; pectus, legs and ventral surface 
of abdomen dark reddish brown mixed with some white. 
Fore wing pale purplish grey tinged with red-brown ; the 
terminal half of costa with alternating blackish and white 
streaks ; traces of a curved brown postmedial line ; a rather 
punctiform black-brown terminal line ; cilia black-brown 
with a white line at base. Hind wing pale purple-grey 
tinged with red-brown ; traces of brownish postmedial and 
subterminal lines ; a slight dark terminal line ; cilia white 
with some brown at tips. Underside of fore wing purplish 
red- brown mixed with whitish, rather diffused black post- 
medial and subterminal marks on costa with white between 
and beyond them, and a black subapical patch ; hind wing 
white irrorated with dark reddish brown, thickly except on 
inner area, a small dark discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial 
line and slightly waved whitish subterminal line defined on 
inner side by dark brown. 
Hab. Sierra Leone {Clements), 1 $ type. Exp. 22 millim. 
Genus DERCETIS. 
Dercetis, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 186 (1878) 
Type. 
vitrea, Grote. 
Dercetis straminea, n. sp. 
$. Head and thorax white tinged with rufous ; abdomen 
white tinged with purple-grey ; palpi, pectus, legs and 
ventral surface of abdomen white suffused with mfous. Fore 
wino- white tinged with purple-grey and slightly irrorated 
with brown; antemedial line blackish, minutely dentate 
towards costa and excurved in submedian interspace , a 
faint diffused brown medial line, excurved at middle ; post- 
medial line blackish, strong and oblique to vein 6, then 
dentate, excurved at middle, then incurved ; small black 
marks on termen above and below vein o and a stuga below 
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