GONOPTERIDjE. 65 



GONITIS FULVIDA (Platk 15.5, Fig. 3, S, 3a, larva). 



Anomis fulvida, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 397 (1852), ?. 



Gonitis fulvida, Mooie, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 19. 



Gonitis comhinans, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1001 (1857), ?. 



Gonitis guttanivis. Walker, id. p. 1003 (1857), $ . 



Male : forewing ochreous-yellow, covered with numerous ochreous-red scales ; 

 crossed by a purple-black oblique waved antemedial line, and a medial line, the latter 

 bent outward below the reniform mark along the middle median, and is thence zigzag 

 upward to the costa; an indistinct dusky zigzag submarginal fascia; the veins 

 outward from the medial line speckled with purple-black and grey ; a prominent 

 white orbicular spot, and an oval white spot bordering the lower end of the dusky 

 grey reniform mark : hindwing pale ochreous-brown. Cilia edged with white. 

 Thorax and head reddish-ochreous ; abdomen, palpi, and legs ochreous-brown. 



Female paler : forewing with the transverse lines more slender and less distinct, 

 the antemedial and lower part of the medial line angular ; orbicular white spot 

 very minute ; reniform indistinct and not white at lower end ; veins externally less 

 distinctly speckled. 



Expanse I5 to If inch. 



Larva with a few short fine black hairs ; black above, olive-yellow beneath ; with 

 a subdorsal row of short transverse yellow streaks, above which is a row of minute 

 yellow spots; stigmata black; head and legs pale reddish. Pupa dark purple- 

 brown. 



GONITIS INVOLUTA (Plate 153, Fig. 7). 



Gonitis involuta. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1003 (1857). 

 Gonitis hasalis, Walker, id. p. 1004 (1857), $ . 

 Tiridata coltif/ata, Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 870 (1865). 



Forewing cinereous ochreous-brown ; numerously covered with uniformly dis- 

 posed short transverse cinereous strigaB and blackish speckles; a very indistinct 

 transverse basal curved pale-bordered brown line, an angulated medial line, and a 

 postmedial line, which is curved hindward, and bent outward from lower end of the 

 cell, and thence waved upward to the costa; a very indistinct submarginal brown 

 zigzag fascia ; a white dot at base of the cell ; a brown-bordered white orbicular 

 dot, and a more or less defined black-spotted brown reniform mark : hindwing and 

 abdomen paler cinereous ochreous-brown. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs cinereous 

 ochreous-brown. 



Expanse, 6 1^, $ If inch. 



