CRATEKESTEA. 2'3 



terminal line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 fuscous, a discoidal point, and postmedial series of shght striae on 

 the veins. 



Hah. Uganda, Ketoma, 5000 feet (Dor/gett), 1 ? typo. Ex2i. 

 32 millim. 



1150. Craterestra subvelata. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 32.) 



Apamca subvelata, Wlk. Melliss' St. Ilelena, Ins. p. 184 (1875). 



Head and thorax dark rufous brown mixed with some grey; 

 tegulse with blackish medial line ; fore coxae of male clothed with 

 long ferruginous scales ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen greyish 

 brown, the anal tuft more rufous. Fore wing dark reddish brown 

 tinged with greyish fuscous ; a waved black subbasal line from 

 costa to vein 1 with a point beyond it on costa ; a waved ante- 

 medial line ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by black, the former round and with greyish 

 annulus, in one specimen they are open and confluent above, some- 

 times with pale patches, between, beyond, and below them ; an 

 indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial line dentate, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some ochreous 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, waved, 

 with fuscous dentate marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 

 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hind wing dark reddish brown, rather paler towards 

 base; cilia pure white. Underside whitish, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous, the basal area suffused with ferruginous in 

 male ; fore wing with discoidal lunule ; hind wing with discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hab. St. Helena ( WoUaston), 2 c? , 1 ? . Exjp. 34-36 millim. 



1151. Craterestra definiens. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 1.) 



Heliothis definiens, Wlk. xi. 689 (1857). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with grey and some black scales ; 

 tegula) with medial blackish line ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing 

 grey thickly irrorated with fuscous ; the discal and submedian folds 

 and inner margin with rufous streaks ; the subbasal line repre- 

 sented by double black stria3 from costa and cell ; the antemedial 

 line double at costa, then waved ; claviform small, defined by black; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former round, some- 

 times filled in with whitish, the latter with its lower part filled in 

 with fuscous ; an indistinct, waved, medial shade ; postmedial line 

 dentate and produced to grey and black points on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some pale 

 points on costa beyond it; subterminal line formed by a series of 

 pale and rufous dentate marks, with slight dark dentate marks 

 before them at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at 

 veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing 



