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CATALOGUE OF 
ClSPIA? OBLIQUA. 
Pallide testacea ; palpi et pedes antici supra nigricantes ; alee an- 
tic#, fascia perobliqua pallide fusca, posticce albidee. 
Pale testaceous. Palpi and anterior legs blackish above. 
Fore wings with a pale brown very oblique band interrupted bv the 
veins, and extending from near the tips to the middle of the ‘inte- 
rior border. Hind wings whitish. Length of the body 6—7 lines ; 
of the wings 14 — 24 lines. 
a — c. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Eev. D. F. Morgan. 
Mas. Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis non conspicua. Palpi 
porrecti, graciles, caput sat superantes ; articulus 2us 3o duplo lon- 
ger; 3us elongatus. Antennae late pectinatse, thorace paullo lon- 
giores. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes graciles, 
anteriores ciliati ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor longis. Alee lat® ; 
anticae apud costam vix convexae, apice rotundatae, margine exte- 
riore mediocriter obliquo, interiore setis erectis armato. 
Allied to Cispia. Male. — Body rather slender. Proboscis not 
visible. Palpi porrect, slender, extending some distance beyond the 
head ; third joint elongate, about half the length of the second. 
Antennae deeply pectinated, a little longer than the thorax. Abdo- 
men not extending beyond the hind wings. Legs slender; anterior 
legs ciliated ; hind tihiae with four long spurs. Wings broad. Fore 
wings very slightly convex in front, rounded at the tips, moderately 
oblique along the exterior border, with long vertical bristles along 
the interior border ; second inferior vein nearer to the first than to 
the third ; third about twice further from the fourth than from the 
Mas. Testacea ; caput subluteum ; thorax et abdomen fusca , hoc 
apice luteum ; alee anticee disco fusco tuberculis nigris , apud 
marginem exteriorem argenteo squamosee . 
Male. Testaceous. Head somewhat luteous. Thorax and 
abdomen brown, the latter with a luteous tip. Disk of the fore 
wings brown, wholly studded with black tubercles, and adorned 
with silvery spangles along its exterior side, where the brown hue 
Genus SOMENA. 
second. 
S()MENA SCINTILLANS. f 
