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the tarsi ringed with pale gray.
The prim-
aries on the upper side are dark brown with the inner margin and the apical area paler. There is a round black spot in the middle of the cell, and a large reniform spot at the end of the cell margined with black, the black margin in some specimens being partially replaced with whitish. There is a black
basal spot. The wing is traversed by irreg- ular deep black basal, sub-basal, and
geminate limbal lines. The outer margin
is marked with black subtriangular spots on the interspaces. There is an obscure pale submarginal line interrupted about the
middle of the outer margin by a dark brown shade. The entire wing is sprinkled with purplish-blue scales. The secondaries on the upper side are uniformly dark fuscous. Both wings on the under side are fuscous, shining. The margin of the primaries is uniformly marked with pale ochraceous in some speci- mens. The inner margin is paler. Both
wings have an obscure discal spot at the end of the cell. Both are crossed by an obscure blackish median band followed by a still more obscure submarginal band. The fringes on the under side are paler and lightly
checkered with obscure ochraceous.
9.
The female is marked very much as
the male, but in some specimens of the
female, the transverse limbal lineis margined on both sides by pale bluish-gray.
Expanse,
65 mm.
This species seems to be quite common,
and I have received numerous specimens
from various localities on the West African coast.
AEDIA, Hiibn.
38. A. costtmacitla, sp. nov. f , The
palpi, front, and collar are brown. The
patagia are dark blackish-brown margined with pale brown. The upper side of the
thorax is brown. The upper side of the
abdomen is fuscous. The lower side of the thorax and the abdomen is fuscous. The
legs are concolorous, the tarsi ringed with white. The primaries on the upper side are dark cinereous, marked with very dark brown lines and spots. There is a fine dark line at the base on the costa followed by a large subtriangular brown spot, which is succeeded near the middle of the costa by a smaller brown spot.
There is an obscure annular
mark on the cell. Beyond the base on the inner margin there is a dark brown line
margined internally by pale gray.
Beyond
the cell the wing is traversed by a geminate curved discal line, the ends of the two mem- bers of which nearest the inner margin are very broadly dark brown.
Beyond this, there
is a finer parallel dark line, which vanishes before it reaches the costa. There is a series of waved dark submarginal markings accen- tuated between the first and second median nervules by a small white dot. There is a small black dot near the outer angle and a dark curved subapical shade beyond which just below the apex are one or twosmall dark brown subhastate spots. The secondaries
are black with a round white spot at the base and a conspicuous white spot at the outer angle. On the under side both wings are
dark rufous-brown, paler at the base and on the costa. The primaries have a white spot at the end of the cell, and below it a larger triangular spot, and a few indistinct whitish marks near the outer angle and at the apex on the costa. The secondaries have a whitish band across the base and a conspicuous white spot at the outer angle.
Expanse, 30 mm.
39. A. apicata, sp. nov. 3. This
species closely resembles the preceding in the general coloration of the body and the under side of the wings, but differs in certain particulars. The primaries are uniformly ashen-brown with one small black spot just beyond the base below the cell and are
clouded by a broad oblique brown shade,
which runs from the inner margin near the base to the apex, just below which it is exca-



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vated, leaving a semi-circular pale space in the middle of which there is a conspicuous black spot. The white spot at the base of the secondaries is not round as in the preced- ing species, but subquadrate. On the under side there is great similarity, but the white spot at the base of the secondaries is much larger and the ground color is blackish
instead of reddish-brown. Expanse, 26 mm. 40. A. eremita, sp. nov. $. This
species resembles in most respects the pre- ceding species, but the patagia instead of being dark brown margined with pale brown, are uniformly pale brownish-cinereous like the primaries. The primaries are without markings, except a few obscure transverse lines about the middle and before the apex. On the under side, the primaries are almost exactly as in the preceding species. Expanse, 24 mm.
41. A. scotosa, sp. nov. f. Palpi,
front, and collar bright chestnut-brown. The patagia are dark brown margined exter- nally by whitish. The upper side of the
thorax is very dark brown, as also the dorsal tufts on the abdomen. The abdomen and
the under side of the thorax are pale brown. Legs concolorous. The primaries are cinere- 011s on the costa and are traversed from the base to the apex by a very broad deep black fascia, widening outwardly, margined on
either side by white lines. The external margin of this fascia is deeply indented at the outer angle by a whitish spot, interrupted by a few dark lines, and also on the outer margin opposite the end of the cell by a small white linear spot. The fringes are pale brown. The secondaries are broadly
shining black, white at the base, with the fringes whitish. On the under side this
species resembles the other species that have been described, but the white color at the base is broader and the white mark at the outer angle of the secondaries is more
restricted. Expanse, 28 mm.
ERCHEIA, Walk.
42. JB. periploca, sp. nov. f . Body and legs fuscous.
The primaries are dark brown
with the inner and outer margins evenly
bordered with a pale fuscous band interrupted above the outer angle by a few darker mark- ings. The secondaries are dark fuscous
with the outer margin touched with white below the apex arid before the anal angle. On the under side the primaries are pale fuscous with the border obscurely defined as on the upper side. Furthermore, a pale,
slightly curved limbal band crosses the wing from the costa two-thirds of its length from the base to the outer angle. The secondaries are of the same coloi- as the primaries, and are traversed by an irregularly curved narrow median line, by a broader and more obscurely defined limbal band parallel to the outer margin, and by a similar narrower and some- what interrupted submarginal band. The
margin of both the primaries and the seconda- ries is defined by a fine dark scalloped line. The fringes on the primaries are dark fuscous. The fringes on the secondaries are paler and white at the points indicated in the de- scription of the upper surface.
Expanse, 43
mm. Habitat Benita.
This species and E. subsigtzata Walk. are the only species of the genus which I have thus far received from tropical West Africa. ELIOCROEA, Walk.
43. E. cJtZoro//iZa, sp. nov. 3. Palpi
fuscous; front whitish.
Upper side of head,
collar, and thorax glaucous.
Upper side of
abdomen pale reddish-cinereous. Lower
side of thorax and abdomen very pale ashen tinged slightly with yellowish. The prima- ries are dark olivaceous-green crossed not far beyond the base by a broad band of pale greenish-white. The outer half of the wing is further ornamented by an irregularly
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submarginal line of blackish, the former de- fined externally by a paler glaucous line, which is enlarged into a spot upon the costa. In the centre of this spot is a subtriangular olivaceous mark. There are two small
patches of blackish raised scales at the end of the cell. The secondaries are uniformly dark brown or fuscous with the fringes
slightly paler. On the under side the prim- aries are dark fuscous with the inner mar- gin broadly whitish and with the costa from the middle to the apex narrowly bordered with very pale ochraceous. The secondaries are pale fuscous with the outer third dark brown or blackish. Just beyond the cell, running from the costa to the first median nervule, is a narrow black transverse limbal band. Expanse, 35 mm.
There is some variation in specimens; the greenish band crossing the primaries being in some darker green than in others.
EREBIDAE.
44. 5. epatorialis, sp. nov. f, Palpi
fuscous. Upper side of thorax dark purplish- brown. Upper side of abdomen fuscous.
Lower side of thorax and abdomen paler.
The first and second pairs of legs are dark brown ringed with whitish. The third pair of legs are paler brown, likewise marked with whitish rings. The prin~aries are dark
brown reflecting in certain lights a bluish- purple sheen. The wings are ornamented
by dark brown transverse lines and bands as follows: a dark sub-basal band bordered on both sides by a narrow blackish line; beyond this crossing the end of the cell, a broad dark brown band constricted about
the middle near the end of the cell ; beyond this a very fine irregularly curved transverse limbal line followed by geminate sub-
marginal lines, the outer line being punctu- ated with patches of raised black scales, and being produced acutely toward the outer
margin about the middle of the wing. The interspaces are marked by small whitish
dots on the margin. The margin is defined by a fine blackish regularly waved line. The fringes are dark fuscous, evenly crenu- late. The secondaries are reddish-fuscous, marked near the anal angle by four or five incomplete dark brown lines parallel to the outer margin, interpolated with paler lines, the uppermost of which are obscurely con- tinued across the wing to the costa, form- ing an obscure paler transverse median band. The wings on the under side are pale fuscous with the costa of the primaries marked with four or five minute pale dots near the apex. Both wings are traversed by very faint and obscure transverse median lines. Both have a broad and very obscure submarginal dark band. The fringes are slightly paler than on the upper side.
Expanse, 55 mm.
DYSGONIIDAE.
ACHAEA, Hubn.
45. A. faber, sp. nov. 8. Palpi, front,
head, and thorax fawn.
Upper side of abdo-
men slightly darker fawn.
Lower side of
thorax and abdomen pale cinereous. Legs
concolorous with the upper edges of the
tibiae marked with dark brown. The prima- ries are fawn color glossed with purplish on the middle of the wing.
They are crossed by
a narrow transverse sub-basal line running from the costa beyond the base to a little before the middle of the inner margin. Be- yond the end of the cell is a broad darker band defined inwardly by a narrow irregu- larly curved line, and outwardly by a still narrower fine line angulated at the point where it crosses the radial nervule. The wing beyond this band is paler than the rest of the wing, and there are some very faint submarginal cloudings. The secondaries are fuscous with a broad black submarginal band running from the outer angle toward the
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margin below it are broadly whitish. On
the under side the primaries are pale cine- reous, shading into shining stramineous on the inner margin. There is a conspicuous black angulated mark at the end of the cell, followed by a very faint transverse line run- ning from the costa perpendicular to the inner margin. This is followed by a more sharply defined, regularly crenula te, transverse limbal line, beyond which about the middle of the margin is a broad obscurely defined sooty circular mark. The outer margin near the apex is pale. The secondaries are cinereous, profusely irrorated with dark brown spots. There is a well defined small circular spot at the end of the cell, followed by sharply defined and regularly crenulate transverse median, transverse limbal, and transverse submarginal lines, of which the transverse limbal lines seem most sharply defined. The margin near the extremities of the median nervule is clouded with dark brown. Ex-
panse. 55 mm.
MINUCIA, Moore.
46. M. desfecta, sp. nov. 3. Palpi red-
dish. Front, collar, and thorax fawn.
Upper side of abdomen pale fuscous; lower side of thorax and abdomen light gray. Legs darker. Primaries fawn. There are two
conspicuous apical spots below the costa, the lowermost of which is the largest. Both are margined externally by a fine pale line, and they constitute the apical end of a series of fine submarginal linear markings. In
addition there is a transverse linear brown line at the base. This line is very short. It is followed by a transverse sub-basal line, which runs from the costa a third of its distance from the base obliquely to the inner margin near the base. Beyond this line at the end of the cell is a narrow black linear mark; beyond the cell, there isa transverse limbal line acutely angulated just below the costa and produced obliquely from the costa in a straight line to the inner margin about .its middle. The inner margin is narrowly edged with dark brown scales.
The seconda-
ries are fuscous, darker on the outer third, tipped with white on the outer angle. The wings on the under side are pale gray with the outer third of the primaries, and of the secondaries until just before the anal angle, clouded with fuliginous. Both wings have the costa near the base slightly tinged with ochraceous. The inner margins of both
wings are paler.
Expanse, 50 mm.
47. M. David, sp. nov.
3. Palpi fuscous.
Front and upper side of thorax ferruginous. Upper side of abdomen fuscous.
Lower side
of thorax and abdomen pale fuscous.
Legs dark fuscous. Primaries ferruginous, slightly darker on the inner margin, and sparingly irrorated with pale brownish
scales.
At the end of the cell is an oblong
discal spot of darker brown.
These wings
are crossed by obscure and irregularly curved transverse sub-basal and transverse limbal lines and by an irregularly curved series of pale greenish submarginal markings, shaded externally and internally with fuscous.
In
some specimens these markings are almost entirely fuscous. There is a dark subapical shade. The secondaries are dark fuscous
with the costa whitish, shining. The fringes are paler, inclining to whitish at the outer angle. On the under side both wings are
very pale shining fuscous, slightly darker on the cell, and with the outer third broadly blackish, the nervules, which are lighter in color, being distinctly defined upon the darker ground. The fringes are pale.
Expanse, 55 mm.
48. M. fioducta, sp. nov. 3. Allied to
the preceding species, but at once distin- guished from it by the form of the seconda- ries, which have the outer margin strongly produced opposite the end of the cell. The color is furthermore prevalently darker, and the under side of the secondaries is bright tawny-ochraceous. The expanse of wing is also greater, being 63 mm. Habitat Benita.



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