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Psyche 7:141-144, 1894.

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SUPPLEMENT TO PSYCHE, NOS. 218-221.
(Concluded from $age 128.)
with chocolate-brown.
The outer half of the
wing is chocolate-brown, darker on the side toward the base, the outline of the darker area being produced inwardly just opposite the end of the cell. Opposite this inward indentation on the outer margin is a blackish spot. The fringes are whitish, checkered with pale fuscous. The secondaries are pale fuscous with the fringes paler. On the under side, both wings are fuscous, the primaries somewhat darker than the secondaries,
having the costa near the apex laved with pale ochreous. Expanse, 17 to 20 mm.
PLUSIIDAE.
DEVA, Walk.
120. D. .$eciesissima, sp. nov. 8. Palpi with the first joint white; the second joint black, marked with a circular white spot on the side ; third joint white tipped with black. The front pure white; vertex tufted with dark brown in front. Posterior portion of vertex fawn. The collar is fawn, margined before and behind with dark brown. The patagia
are brown with the extremities tipped with fawn. The upper side of the thorax is fawn, marked posteriorly with a V-shaped black mark. The upper side of the abdomen is
pale plumbeous ; the lower side of the thorax and the abdomen are pale ochraceous. Legs concolorous, with the tibiae of the first pair at their end tipped with dark brown. The primaries on the upper side are marked with an exceedingly intricate series of fine brown lines on the limbal area enclosing silvery triangular spots, five or six in number, Toward the base on the costa is a large sil- very yellow spot separated from a similar smaller spot on the inner margin by a dark brown spot, which forms the nexus, or point of coalition of deep black geminate incom- plete transverse sub-basal and submedian lines. Before the apex and near the outer angle are a number of deep black spots suc- ceeded before the middle of the outer margin by three chalky-white subhastate spots on a pale fawn ground, which is defined inwardly by two fine semi-lunate lines. The outer margin is punctuated with small triangular dark spots interpolated on the middle of the margin by two similar white spots. The
secondaries are uniforn~ly pale fuscous. On the under side, both wings are fuscous with the primaries darker. The inner margin of the primaries is, shining stramineous. Ex- panse, 38 mm. Habitat Bulb Country, West Africa.
This exquisite moth is represented in my collection by a single male specimen in
almost perfect preservation. It is the most beautiful insect of the genus.
EURHIPIDAE.
PENICILLARIA, GUen.
121. P. Menaleas, sp. nov. 9. Allied to
P. solitaries, Holl. Palpi with the first joint brown; last two joints white; front and vertex very pale fawn. The collar
cinereous, margined in front with black. Patagia and upper side of thorax very pale olivaceous-green. Metathorax dark brown. Upper side of abdomen pale olive-green.
Lower side of thorax and abdomen obscure fuscous with a lilacine tint. On the side of the abdomen just back of the thorax is a dark brown lunate mark followed near the anal extremity by a dark brown lateral
streak, from which three transverse brown- ish lines range upwardly along the sides of the last three segments. There are some
exceedingly minute brown dots along the
median line of the abdomen on
the uppei
side. Legs whitish, with the tibiae of the anterior pair and the extremities of the tibiae of the last two pairs marked with dark brown. The primaries have the base pale
olive-green, this green area being separated from the rest of the wing by a broad oblique sub-basal line of rich maroon, which runs from the costa a little before the middle inwardly to the inner margin just before the base. This broad line is defined inwardly Paths 7 141-144 tprc-1903). tmp:ttpsychc nilclub orgW7-14l.hid



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by a very narrow white line
and is diffuse
outwardly. There is a minute black spot
in the cell beyond this line followed by a moderately large reniform of pale green
twice-pupilled with dark green. A trans- verse subapical dark
brown line runs from
the costa to the middle of the outer margin. This line is produced on the costa. Before the apex on the costa is a large subquadrate dark brown spot, between which and the
subapical transverse line on the costa
are three minute white dots. The outer
two-thirds of the wing are pale lilacine, obscurely marbled with irregular transverse faint brown lines and markings margined by very pale lilacine. The margin is punc-
tuated with minute brown dots. The fringes are pale fuscous. The secondaries are pale fuscous with the margin defined by a very fine dark brown line bordered by a very pale line. On the inner margin about the middle are some dark transverse cloudings and near the anal angle some obscure transverse
incomplete pale bands. The costa is white, shining.
On the under side, the primaries
are fuscous with the inner margin white, immaculate, shining. There is an obscure discal spot at the end of the cell and a double submarginal series of dark brown dots on the interspaces, and a subtriangular white spot on the costa before the apex. The
secondaries are laved with pink, have a
distinct discal dot at the end of the cell, and are crossed beyond it by a sharply angulated transverse median band. The
marginal series of brown spots
from the primaries across the
parallel to the outer margin.
mm.
EREBIIDAE.
double sub-
is continued
secondaries
Expanse, 27
GEOMETRIMIMA, gens nov.
2. The palpi broadly separated; the first joint short; the second moderately long, curved upward before the eyes ; the first and second joints are densely clothed with hair; the third joint is naked, aciculate, pointing upwardly and outwardly, the extremity being level with the vertex. The antennae are
simple. The first pair of legs have the
femora and the tibiae clothed with long hairs ; the second have the tibiae clothed with long hair; the tarsi of the first and second pair are naked; the third pair have the tibiae densely clothed with long hair and armed with double median and terminal spurs ; the tarsi of the third pair are clothed on their outer margin almost to the tips with long hair, forming a flattened brush. The prim- aries are elongated, subfalcate at the apex, with the costa gently rounded before the apex, and the outer angle evenly rounded. The secondaries are considerably produced about the middle of the outer margin, which is sharply scalloped, the apex being evenly rounded, the costa nearly straight. Type, G. callt'sta, Holland.
122. G. callista, sp. nov. 2. Palpi fus- cous, genae whitish, vertex and collar
chestnut-brown. Upper side of thorax
fuscous. Upper side of abdomen fuscous.
Lower side of thorax and abdomen fuscous with the anal extremity tipped with ferrugin- ous. Legs concoloro~~s. The upper side of the primaries is dark brown, crossed by a broad band of white from the middle of the costa to the outer angle. There are also some white subapical markings. The
secondaries are uniformly dark brown with the fringes near the outer angle and the costa pale ochreous. On the under side the primaries are fuscous with the costa near the base margined with lilacine-gray, and the inner margin shining stramineous. The
broad white band of the upper surface
reappears upon the lower side, but is much broader, though less sharply defined, and reaches the outer angle. The apex is whit- ish. The white spots of the upper surface reappear upon the lower side and are conflu- ent with the white apical area. Between
them and the broad white band is a broad subtriangular dark brown shade. The outer margin is adorned below the apex with




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PSYCHE.
minute hastate spots of dark brown upon the interspaces. The fringes, which are pale, are checkered with dark brown at the tips of the nervules. The secondaries are lilacine- brown with a short dark brown bar on the cell near the base, a longer dark brown bar on the middle of the cell, and a transverse discal line at its end. A broad obscurely defined median band of brown crosses the wing just beyond the cell, and is followed by a still broader dark brown band, running from a little beyond the middle of the costa inwardly to the origin of the median ner- vules, where it fuses with a broad brown shade, which does not quite reach the inner margin. A black discal line runs from the costa i-nwardly, gradually widening, and being curved outwardly in the region of the median nervules. This is succeeded by
three black subquadrate spots, one located between veins five and six; the others on either side of vein two, the first and third being the largest. They are margined
externally by white and the area of the wing immediately adjacent to them is irrorated with bluish scales. The outer margin
between veins three and five is dark brown. The margin is indicated by fine geminate regularly curved lines. The fringes are
concolorous, except at the outer angle,
where they are ochreous. Expanse, 62 mm- This beautiful moth is unfortunately
represented in my collection by a single specimen, which is a female.
FACIDIA, Walk.
123. F. horr* sp. nov. 3. The entire
body, both on the upper and under side, dark smoky-brown. The tarsi are ringed with
paler brown. The primaries are dark brown, slightly paler on the outer margin.
They
are traversed by very obscure basal, median, and limbal ferruginous lines. The limbal line is evenly crenulate, running from the costa almost to vein one, where it forms a loop and returns in the direction of the costa to the lower angle of the cell, where it coalesces with the median line, which is incomplete, running only from the lower
angle of the cell to the inner margin. At the point where this loop is made above vein one, there is an obscure ocelliform spot tinged with bluish pupilled with blackish, There are some obscure whitish markings
near the apex. In some specimens these are entirely wanting. The transverse lines,
which have been described, are also almost obsolete in some specimens, which appear on the upper surface to be uniformly black, except when viewed in a strong light. The secondaries are of the same color as the primaries, marked by a faint and obscure zigzag transverse line which runs from the inner margin above the anal angle about to the middle of the wing. On the under side, the wings are dark brown or blackish, in some specimens almost jet black, laved with pale cinereous on the apex of the primaries, and touched with pale cinereous on the
margin of the secondaries near the apex. Both wings are crossed by a curved limbal series of minute white dots located upon the nervules and in some specimens connected by a fine and obscure pale line. Expanse, 50 mm.
This species is allied to F. nig-rofusca, . Walk., described from Natal.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE I.*
Fig. I. Plusiocalpe pallida, sp. nov., 13. 2. Hypodeva barbata, sp. nov., XI.
3. Plusiocalpe prosticta, sp. nov., 14.
4. Periplusia nubilicosta, sp. nov., 15. 5, ' cinerascens, sp. nov., 16.
6. " ecclipsis sp. nov., 17.
8. Caligatus Angasii, Wing.
= Pacidara venustissima, Walk.
9. Rhescipha siderosticta, sp. nov., 22. 10. " hypocaloides, sp. nov., 23.
11. Gonitis Benitensis, sp. nov., 26.
12. Hornoptera pulcherrima, sp. nov., 30. *
*The numbers appended to the names of the species refer to the serial numbers in the text.



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Fig. 13. Gonitis marginata, sp. nov., 25. t4. Catephia discistriga, Walk.
15. Aedia costimacula, sp. nov., 38.
16. " apicata, sp. nov., 39,
17. <'eremita, sp. nov., 40.
18. " scotosa, sp. nov., 41.
19. Symplnsia frequens, sp. nov., 12.
20. Acontia zelia, Druce.
21. Eutelia ? strigula, sp. nov., 19.
22. Penicillaria morosa, sp. nov., 20.
23. '6 solitaria, sp. nov., 21.
24. Tarache signifera, Walk.
35. Hyblaea occidentalium, sp. nov., rf, 24. 26. Targallodes rufula, sp. nov., 18.
27. Xanthodes canela, Druce.
28. Panilla sex-n~aculata, sp, nov., 32. 29. Hyblaea occidentalium. sp. nov., $, 24. EXPLANATION OF PLATE 11.
Fig. I. Eudrapa multiscripta, sp. nov., 36. 2. Arcte maurus, sp. nov., 37.
3. Deinypena lacista, sp. nov., 8, 109.
4. 'I ' sp. nov., Q , 109.
5. " ereboides, sp. nov., in.
6. Facidia horrida, sp. nov., if, 123.
7. Eliocroea chloroptila, sp. nov., 43.
8. Ercheia periploca, sp. nov., 42.
9. " subsignata, Walk.
10. Heterospila taeniata, sp. nov., 95.
11. " sestia, sp. nov., 93.
2 " umbrina, sp. nov., 97.
13. " Hecate, sp. nov., 92.
14. Entomogram~na pardus, Guen.
= Remigia venusta, Walk.
IS. Panilla major, sp. nov., 35.
16. Panilla quadrimaculata, sp. nov., 33. 17. " octo-maculata, sp. nov., 34.
18. " obscurissima, sp. nov., 31.
19. Tngonodes inornata, ep. nov., 62.
20. Minucia David, sp. nov., 47.
21. Achaea faber, sp. nov., 45.
22. Naxia multilineata, sp. nov., 51.
23. Dysgonia humilis, sp. nov., 58.
24. Trigonodes binaria, sp. nov., 61.
25. Grammodes Benitensis, sp. nov., 59.
26. " pusilla, sp. nov., 60.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 111.
Fig. I.
2.
3-
4-
5-
6.
7-
8.
9-
10.
Minucia despecta, sp. nov., 46.
" producta, sp. nov., 48.
Naxia xanthodera, sp, nov., 49.
" debilis, sp. nov., go.
" infirma, sp. nov., 52.
Psimada Africans, sp. nov., 53.
" imperatrix, sp. nov., 54.
Dysgonia Cameruiiica, sp. nov., 57.
'I neptunia, sp. nov., 55.
'< plutonia, sp. nov., 56.
Fig. I I.
12.
13-
14.
15-
16.
17-
[June-Sept. 1894.
Fodina, euclidicola, Walk,
Baniana biangulata, WalK.
Hypospila nigribasis, sp, GOV., 71.
Acantholipes triangulifera, sp. nov., 63. Toxocampa dedecora, sp. nov., 74.
Bareia incidens, Walk.
'
tenebrosa, sp. nov., Under side, 73.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV.
Fig. I.
2.
3-
4.
5-
6.
7.
8.
9-
10.
11.
12.
'3-
14.
15-
16.
17-
18.
19.
20.
21.
Eugorna vidua, (f, sp. nov., 107.
Geometrimima callista, 9, sp. nov., 122. Gorna apicata, if, sp. nov., 105.
IC " 9, sp. nov., 105.
'' partita, 3, Walk., 106.
9, Walk., 106.
Episparis lamprima, Q, sp. nov., 99.
"
connubens, if, sp. nov., 100.
hieroglyphica, 8, sp. nov., 101.
"
lunata, $, sp. nov., 102.
a
simplex, 9, sp. nov., 104.
Ricla expandens, Walk.
subpallescens, 8, sp. nov., 91.
Episparis complex, 9, sp. nov., 103.
Hypospila jaculifera, 9, sp. nov., 72.
Orixa fascifera, 9, sp. nov., 113.
Elyra Gabunalis, if, sp. nov., 114.
Acantholipes argillacea, Q, sp. nov., 69. '
catoxantha, 3, sp. nov., 66.
Hypospila angulilinea, (f, sp. nov., 70. Mestleta flavicostata, if, sp. nov., 84. EXPLANATION OF PLATE V.
Fig. I. Deinypena lathetica, 9, sp, nov., no. 2. ' margine-punctata,if, sp. nov., 112. 3. Heterospila piperita, if, sp. nov., 98. 4. Amphigonia sinistra, if, sp. nov., 108. 6. Eucapnodes sex-maculata, rf, Walk.
7, Selenis limbata, 9, sp. iiov., 83.
8. a puncticosta, rf, sp. qov., 82.
9. Thermesia aurantiaca, 2, sp. nov., 75. 10. " discipuncta, if, sp. nov., 76.
11. Deva speciosissima, 8, sp. nov., 120. 12. Acontia briola, 9, sp. nov., 115.
13. Heterospila calescens, if, sp. nov., 96. 14. Tatorhinia Burrowsii, if, Bud.
15. " 9, Butl.
16. Tracta bilinea, $, sp. nov,, go.
17. Tracta geometroides, $, sp. nov., 89. 18, Tatorhinia fuscosa, if, sp. nov., 88. 19. Capnodes haematoZssa, 2, sp. nov., 78. 20. Penicillaria Menalcas, 8, sp. nov., 121. 21. Mestleta lithina, if, sp. nov., Ss.
22. Acontia chia, if, sp. nov., I 16.
23. Mestleta discifascia, sp. nov., 86.
24. Tarache domina, sp. nov., 118.
25. Acontia glaphyra, sp. nov. 117.
26. Mestleta lathraea, sp. nor., 87.
q. Tarache mesoleuca, sp. nov., 1x9.




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