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outwards to vein 4, then sharply inwards. Hindwings reddish brown, postmedian line diffuse, dark. Other 
specimens are much paler. Antemedian line only indicated in a spot on costa. Median line more distinct and 
occasionally not ex curved to vein 4, but straight, vertically to inner margin. 24 mm. iSierra Leone, Gold Coast. 
29. Genus: Metoposcopa >S9rcZ. 
Resembling the Genera Proruaca and Authadistis by the conical process on frons. Otherwise wing 
contour and markings are like the Pyralid Genus Scoparia. Only 1 species. 
M. sagittalis Strd. (32 b). Forewings brownish grey. Antemedian line pale, incurved in centre. Post- saglUalis. 
median band grey, indistinct, excurved in centre, enclosing a narrow dentate black line. Posterior to antemedian 
line an “8” shaped figure with black dot outwardly. From there a brown stripe extends to costa and along it 
towards the base to antemedian line. From postmedian line below costa a deej) black sagittate mark to outer 
margin. Hindwings white wuth dark marginal band. 30 mm. East Africa. 
30. Genus : Archepliia H^njos. 
Palpi extending to frons. Frons with crest of hairs. Antennae of (J finely ciliate. Thorax with tuft 
anteriorly and posteriorly. Abdomen with 2 basal tufts. Neuration normal. Only 1 species. 
A. olivacea Hmps. (34 a). Thorax olive-brown. Abdomen red-brown. Forewings olive-brown with oZiracea. 
black streak on submedian fold to centre, curving downwards at antemedian line. The latter blackish, un¬ 
dulate, double, excurved below cell. Orbicular and reniform stigmata large with black edges, the latter wider 
below and with dark centre. From it a black streak proceeds to margin on discal fold. Postmedian line double, 
brown, indistinct, excurved to vein 4. Submarginal line pale with black transverse streaks. 30 mm. Natal, 
Rhodesia. 
31. Genus: "Uripao Hmps. 
Palpi long, the third segment elongate. Antennae and thorax as in Archepliia. Abdomen without tufts. 
Neuration normal. Legs of $ with long hairs. Only 1 very large sjDecies. 
U. albizonata Pimps. (32 c). Quite dissimilar from preceding species. Body and forewings reddish brown, alhizonaia. 
Antemedian line pale with wide dark outer edge, widely incurved on submedian fold. The space below vein 1 
is dark brown, also the distinct inner edge of the white transverse band. The latter encloses also a white un¬ 
dulate line with angulations widely inwards on the veins; it has a delicate dark edge. Distally a straight dark 
and a pale line. Submarginal line boldly undulate, anteriorly darker. Hindwings with wider bluish white median 
band. 88—98 mm. From Sierra Leone, but also occurring in the Cameroons, at Ogowe. 
32. Genus: l*lalyscia 
The third segment of palpi is not so long. Thorax and abdomen without tufts. Hind tibiae with long 
hairs, as in Uripao. The first segment of tarsi is similarly hairy. Neuration normal. Only 1 sj^ecies. 
P. mesoscia Hmps. (32 c). Not quite as large as albizonata. Body and wings red-brown. Antemedian mesoscia. 
line on forewings indistinct, vertical, shaped in tiers, airteriorly rusty brown. Median line dark brown, forming 
2 large arcs, with point inwards on median nervure. Anteriorly somewhat bluish grey, posteriorly dark brown. 
Postmedian line dark brown and rusty brown, vertical, edged on both sides with ochreous brown; distally a 
pale stripe, that may also be absent. Submarginal line not quite so irregular as in albizonata. Hindwings with 
black spots on inner margin near anal angle, with rusty brown edge and white spots. 65—70 mm. Gold Coast, 
Cameroons. 
33. Genus: Xiept^.mma n. gen. 
Resembling the preceding in size and wing contour, but the third segment of pal23i somewhat longer, 
the legs with scarcely any hairs. Only 1 sjiecies. 
L. flavalis n. sjoec. Thorax and forewings red-brown with lilac sheen. Somewhat rusty brown at base, flavalis. 
Antemedian line dark, double, undulate, vertical, indistinct. A large lunular reniform stigma, edged with white 
spots, somewhat more distinct than in mesoscia. Postmedian line boldly dentate, outwards to vein 4, then 
indistinctly inwards, only the inner tips of angulations shaiqjly black. Submarginal line similarly dentate as 
in mesoscia, but situate nearer margin. Anteriorly to it very dark fuscous, jDosteriorly brown and dusted with 
yellow. Hindwings brown, blackish in marginal area. At margin yellow to vein 4, then yellow dusted with black, 
similarly as on forewings. On underside a yellow median band on forewings. Margins of both wmgs anteriorly 
yellowish white. ^ 70 mm. Cameroons. Type in the Berlin Museum. 
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