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May 1894.1
PSYCHE
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49. iV. xanthodera, sp. nov. f. Palpi
pale gray, head whitish, collar and patagia reddish-yellow, upper side of thorax brown, upper side of abdomen fuscous, lower side of thorax and abdomen fuscous, legs con-
colorous. The primaries are reddish,
glossed with purple and marked on the outer and inner margin with yellowish. They are crossed by a number of obscure and fine
waved lines. The secondaries are uniforn~ly fuscous. The fringes are paler, marked with whitish near the outer angle, On the under side, both wings are pale cinereous, the primaries having the inner margin whitish and the outer margin above the inner angle slightly clouded with fuscous. There are a few obscure whitish subapical points forming an incomplete subrnurginal series in the primaries. Both wings have an obscure
discal spot and the secondaries are crossed by curved and regularly crenulate obscure lines, of which the submarginal line is the most distinct. Expanse, 45 mm.
50. N. debilis, sp. nov. J. Allied to
N. senior. Walk., but smaller and much
paler. In A^. seuior the outer third is dark succeeded on the margins by a whitish area. In N. detiZis the outer third of the wing is very little darker than the rest of the wing, and on the under side the lines, which
traverse the wings in N. senior are much paler. The expanse of wings in X senior is from 55 to 60 mm. In the case of N. debilis it is only about 40 mm.
This may be a small and light colored form of N. senior, but its fades is different, though it is very hard to define in words just wherein the difference consists. It seems to be
common and constantly occurring in the
same localities and at the same time of year with Walker's species.
51. N. m/tZ/iZineata, sp. nov. J. Palpi, front, and collar rufous. Upper side of
thorax and abdomen fuscous. Lower side
of abdomen fuscous; lower side of thorax paler. The legs are dark fuscous, the tarsi ringed with yellowish-white. The primaries are lilacine-brown, crossed by a multitude of dark brown lines, which in strong sunlight show a coppery lustie. Below the apex
these lines coalesce and enclose a subtriangu- lar paler aiea, at the outer extremity of which is a coppery red spot. The second- aries are dark fuscous on the outer margin, which is defined by a fine narrow waved line. At the anal angle are a couple of dark lines alternating with pale gray lines running inwardly toward the middle of the wing-
On the under side, the wings are daik
fuscous, laved with grayish on the outer maigin and at the babe, and crossed by a multitude of fine crenulate lines defined out- wardly by hastate pale grayish or pale red- dish markings, the reddish tint prevailing toward the costa in both wings. The apical extremity of the costa in the primaries is reddish touched with a number of minute
light dots. Expanse, 38 min.
52. N. i;ifirma, sp. nova f. Body and
legs uniforn~ly pale fawn. Upper side of primaries and secondaries fawn. Both wings are sprinkled with small dark cinereous
scales, and are traversed by a somewhat
broad irregularly curved submarginal band of ferruginous. Both are further marked bv obscure and irregularly curved and broken sub-basal, median, and limbal transverse lines. On the under side, the primaries
are fuscous with the outer margin uni-
formly paler. The dark aiea is traversed by a curved linlbal and a curved submarginal line, The secondaries are fuscous like the primaries, but the outer pale margin is not so light as in the primaries. These wings have a distinct discal dot and are crossed by four or five parallel curved transverse lines. Expanse, 35 mm. Habitat Benita. Taken
in November.
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PSIMADA, Walk.
53. P. Aficana, sp. nov. 3, Upper side
of thorax and abdomen fuscous, lower side paler, covered in part with whitish hairs. The primaries on the upper side are slaty- brown, crossed by obscure transverse lines and marked on the costa before the apex4by a dark brown subti-iangular spot, the apex of which pointing inwardly is obtuse, or
rounded, and the outer margin defined by a very fine whitish line. The secondaries ale of the same color as the primaries marked by a few scattered submarginal dark brown spots, and above the anal angle on the inner margin by a curved brown line. On the under side both wings are paler than on the upper side, especially at the base. Both have a pale discal spot at the end of the cell; both are crossed beyond the cell by an irregularly curved and acutely zigzagged transverse
limbal line, followed by a submarginal
curved series of pale spots. Expanse, 40 mm. 54. P. im'peratrix, sp. nov. f . Some-
what larger than the previous species, and with the outer margin of the primaries
strongly produced, or angulated, at the
extremity of the third median nervule. The upper side of the body is ashy-brown. The lower side is paler, grayish. The primaries upon the upper side are hoary brown crossed by numerous more or less obscure dark lines and series of spots. On the costa before the apex is a large dark brown triangular spot. from the lower or apical end of which several small spots, gradually diminishing in size. extend in a series in the direction of the outer angle. Beyond these spots below the apex is a curved brown shade running from the large triangular brown spot to the outer margin at its middle. The secondaries are colored like the primaries above. The middle of the wing is crossed by a series of fine subhastate brown markings, shaded out-
wardly by olivaceous-gray, and siicceeded by a similar submarginal series of heavier spots, which are most con&picuou~ on the inner
margin near the anal angle.
The margins of
both wings are marked upon the interspaces by minute dark brown transverse dashes.
On the under side, both wings are fuscous with their inner margins and the apex of the primaries grayish. Both are crossed by
obscure transverse median, limbal, and sub- marginal lines composed of subhastate inark- ings, which are bordered externally by pales lines and spots inclining to ochraceoub. The submarginal series is the heaviest and most conspicuous, the apical extremity on the primaries being broad, and the pale spots being succeeded externally by darker lines, so that they appear as a central bar of light spots upon a broad darker band. Expanse, 47 mrn.
DYSGOXIA, Hubn.
55. D. ne'ptunia, sp. nov. $. Closely
allied to D.joviana, Cram., and D. arcuata., Moore, from the former of which it differs in having- the outer margin of the median dark band evenly curved and not excised in the region of the median nervules, and from the latter it differs in having the median band much wider and the sub-basal transverse band very slightly bowed out toward the margin below the cell. D. joviana is found on the western coast of Africa and is represented in my collection. Its facies differs positively from that of this species. The present
species is furthermore considerably larger than D. joviana. The differences between this species and the other species described in this paper are most clearly illustrated by the figures on the plates accompanying thib article. It is exceedingly difficult among these forms, which are closely allied and yet distinct, to define with words the differences, which consist mainly in the size and in the outline of the transverse bands of the prima- ries. Expanse, 43 mm.
. 56. D. pluto?zia, sp. nov. 8. Allied to the preceding- species, from which it differs in having the dark median band on its inter-



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nal margin diffuse and not regularly convex inwardly. Furthermore, the apical dark spot en the primaries is surrounded by a fine pale line and distinctly demarked from the broad brown curved subapical shade, or subapically produced upper angle of the broad transverse median band. In D.joviana, D. ?ze//una,
and D. conjuncfura this apical spot fuses with the subapical prolongation of the median. band. The submarginal transverse line is obscure.
9. The female is like the male, but having the submarginal line straight and sharply defined and bordered outwardly by a pale narrow line.
Expanse, $ and 9, 42 mm.
57. D. Camerunica, sp. nov. 3. Head
and body on upper and under side fuscous. The primaries on the upper side are pale ashen. The basal third is dark brown, the brown area being regularly defined by a
straight line of very dark brown, running from the costa perpendicularly to the inner margin. Beyond the cell. the wing is
crossed by a broad median band of dark
brown, diffuse inwardly, and externally
deeply toothed and scalloped. On the costa before the apex is a paler area, subhastate in form, with the point, which is directed
inwardly, very blunt, or rounded. This spot is defined on all sides by a pale gray line, the barbs, which point outwardly, being
shaded with dark brown. Just at the apex, located between the barbs of this subhastate spot is a small oval dark brown spot. There are some fine cloudings on the lighter mar- ginal area, just beyond the median band, and on the edge of the wing near the middle of the margin. The secondaries are dark
fuscous with the fringes paler, except at the middle of the outer margin, where they are concoloi-ous. On the under side, the prima- ries are pale f~~scous with the fringes some- what lighter than the body of the wing.
There are obscure traces of transverse limbal and submarginal lines, most distinct near the costa- The secondaries are pale f'uscous, lighter near the base, crossed by regularly curved and very dentate median and submar- ginal dark brown lines, defined externally by parallel paler lines. The fringes are as on the upper surface, but a trifle paler. 9. The female is very like the male. Expanse, 33 mm.
This species somewhat resembles D.
(Ofhi~~sa) derogans, Walk., but may be at once distinguished by the scalloped and
dentate outline of the dark median band on its external margin.
58. D. /wå´~niZis sp. nov. f. The body
is obscure brownish-gray above, paler on the lower hide. The legs are concolorous. On the upper side, the primaries are obscure brownish-gray. There is a dark sub-basal band as in the preceding species, margined externally by paler ashen. The wing is
crossed by a curved line, running from the apex, convex inwardly, to about the middle of the inner margin. Beyond the cell, this line fuses with a short curved line sweeping from the costa two-thirds of the distance from the base outwardly toward the outer margin. This short curved line and the
upper end of the line running from the apex enclose a semi-circular paler subapical area, near the outer edge of which are some exceed- ingly obscure darker small spots. The
secondaries are uniformly fuscous. Both
the primaries and the secondaries on the under side are uniformly fuscous. There is a faint trace near the costa on the primaries of a paler transverse limbal line.
$ . The female is like the male.
Expanse,
3 j mrn. Habitat, Valley of the Ogov6 and the Cameroons.
This and the preceding species are two of the smallest species in the genus.
GRAMMODES, Guen.
59. G. Benitensis, sp. nov. 3. Allied to G. (Fodinu) euclidi'cola, Walk., from which it may be distinguished among other things by the absence of the white transverse half-



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band at the base, which is so conspicuous in ezbclidicola Furthermore, the white lines forming the V-shaped mark, which are con- spicuous in eitclidicola, in Benitensis do not make an acute angle with each other at the inner margin, but are separated at the apex of the V and fuse with a pale line, or band, which borders the inner margin, running
from the base along the whole length of the margin to the outer angle. In other respects this species closely resembles euclidicola. Expanse, 45 mm. Habitat Benita.
60. G. $usiZlii, sp. nov. 3. Front pale
brown. Thorax and abdomen above and
below very pale ochraceous. The primaries are creamy-white, marked by two conspicuous triangular black spots upon the middle of the wing, distinctly separated from each other by a narrow band of the prevalent
light ground color of the wing. The inner- most of these spots forms a scalene triangle with its base parallel to the inner margin. The outermost spot has its base toward the costa, the base being slightly concave. The apex points to the outer angle; the sides are nearly equal. The margin is slightly clouded with pale wood-brown, and is
marked by a number of minute transverse
brownish dashes on the interspaces. The
fringes are pale. tipped slightly with fuscous. The secondaries are uniformly creamy-white with the margin and fringes as on the prim- aries. On the under side both wings are pale creamy, immaculate. 9. The female is like the male. Expanse, 25 mm.
61. T. binaries, sp. nov. 3.
collar fuscous. Upper side of
abdomen fawn. Lower side of
Front and
thorax and
thorax and
abdomen paler.
Legs concolorous with the
anterior margins of the first two pairs dark brown. The primaries on the upper side
are argillaceous laved on the costa and the outer margin with grayish. There is a
small round discal dot at the end of the cell and below the cell are two dark black subtriangular spots with their bases toward the costa and their apices toward the inner margin The spots coalesce with each other on the line of their bases just below the dis- cal spot at tlie end of the cell. They are mar- gined externally on the sides of the inner and outer margins with a narrow pale
creamy line. There is a dark brownis-h
subapical shade just beyond the outermost spot and some indistinct submarginal
cloudings near the outer angle.
The mar-
gin is marked with minute brown spots
on the interspaces. The fringes are con- colorous. The secondaries are argillaceous clouded with fuscous near the base and on the outer margin, especially in the neighbor- hood of the outer angle. The fringes on the secondaries are paler than on the primaries. On the under side, the primaries are pale argillaceous marked with an obscure discal spot, and crossed from the costa by an
incomplete transverse limbal and a broader transverse submarginal band of dark fuscous. The secondaries are uniformly pale argilla- ceous, inclining' to ochraceous.
9.
The female is marked very much like
the male.
Expanse, $ and 9, 43 to 46 mm.
Habitat, Gaboon and Cameroons.
62. T. inornafa, sp. nov. 3. Closely
resembling the preceding species, for which the description given will suffice, save that the primaries on the upper side entirely lack the two very conspicuous dark black triangular spots on the median area and
the secondaries on the under side possess an obscure discal dot at the end of the cell, and are crossed beyond the cell by an incoin- plete transverse median band. The prima- ries are marked on the upper side by a dark transverse submarginal shade, running diag- onally from the apex to the inner margin two-thirds of the distance from the base. 9.
The female is marked like the male.
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POAPHILID AE.
ACANTHOLIPES, Led.
63. A. tr/a7zguZife~ sp. nov. 9. Head
and collar dark brown. Upper side of
thorax and abdomen fawn. Lower side of
thorax and abdomen paler. Legs concolor- ous with the front margins of the tibiae and femora darker brown. Primaries on the
upper side rosy-fawn, darker on the outer margin. On the inner margin beyond the
base is a large subtriangular dark brown spot. The apex of this spot points toward the costa, and from it a fine line is continued upwardly to the costa. Beyond the apex of this dark spot in the middle of the cell is a small circular black spot: at the end of the cell, a reniform spot. A fine irregularly curved line runs from the costa above the reniform around toward the inner margin, fusing with the large subtriangular dark spot beyond the base near the point where the first median nervule intersects the outer margin of this large spot. Upon the costa just before the apex is a moderately large subtriangular dark brown spot. The margin is marked by a few linear transverse lines below the apex. The fringes are concolor- ous. The fringes on the upper side are
fuscous, darkest on the outer margin. On the under side. the wings are pale rosy-fawn, the secondaries somewhat lighter than the primaries. Both wings have an obscure
discal spot at the end of the cell and both are traversed beyond the cell by an incom- plete transverse limbal dark line. Expanse, 30 mm. Habitat Benita.
64. A. defersa, sp. nov. 9. Front and
collar dark brown. Upper side of thorax and abdomen fuscous, lower side slightly lighter. The primaries and the secondaries on the upper side are fawn with the outer margin lighter, inclining somewhat to ochraceous. The only markings on the upper surface of the wings are, on the primaries, a very
narrow and indistinct regularly curved sub- basal line followed on the cell by a median dot and an obscure reniform spot, and
beyond the latter there is a very narrow and obscure irregularly curved transverse limbal line running from the costa out-
wardly, passing around the end of the cell, making an inward loop and then running
to the inner margin near its middle. On
the under side, the wings are pale fawn with the costa of the primaries before the apex and the inner margin laved with light
ochraceo~~s. The fringes of the primaries on the under side are darker than the body of the wing. Expanse, 28 mm.
65. A. 'pustulata, sp. nov. $. The
body is marked as in the preceding species. The primaries on the upper side are fawn, marked with heavy dark brown spots and
fine dark brown lines. On the costa beyond the base is a small oval black spot, about the middle of the costa three small subtri- angular spots, on the costa before the apex a large subquadrate spot There is a
circular black spot on the middle of the cell ; at the end of the cell a large black reniform spot; on the inner margin beyond the base a large triangular spot, the apex resting upon the middle of the cell, the base covering the inner margin for about one-half of its length, but not quite reaching the point of insertion of the wing. This spot, as well as the reni- form, is followed by a fine dark brown line. The secondaries on the upper side are
uniformly pale fuscous. On the under side both wings are pale rosy-fawn. The prima- ries are somewhat darker in the region of the cell and marked at the end of the cell by an obscure transverse discal line. Expanse, 28 mm.
66. A. catoxantha, sp. nov. 3. Head
and collar dark brown.
Upper side of thorax
pale fawn; upper side of abdomen pale
fuscous; lower side of thorax and abdomen very pale ochraceous. Legs concolorous,
margined on the tibiae with pale brown.
The primaries are luteous, shading on the



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