448 NOCTUID^. 



white ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with brown or black at base 

 and extremity, the ventral surface brown. Fore wing reddish 

 brown, the basal and costal areas suffused with fuscous brown or 

 blackish ; subbasal line represented by some black scales below 

 costa and cell ; antemedial line indistinct, waved, interrupted, 

 oblique towards costa ; claviform small, indistinctly defined by 

 black ; orbicular absent ; reniform narrow, with rufous centre and 

 whitish annulus ; postmedial line rather ill-defined, minutely 

 dentate and produced to short streaks on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 6, then oblique, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa, the area beyond it more or less distinctly paler, 

 except towards costa before the subterminal line, which is formed 

 of a series of indistinct pale spots defined on inner side by somewhat 

 dentate rufous marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 pure white, the costal area tinged with fuscous and in female the 

 terminal area to vein 2. 



Hah. S. Fkance, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Portugal ; Italy, Frey 

 Coll. ; Algeria, Leech Coll. ; Nigeria, Sapele (Sampson), 1 5 ; 

 Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 § ; Natal, Durban (Leigh), 

 1 2 ; Cape Colony, Grahamstown, 1 $ ; Mauritius, Curepipe 

 (Tulloch), 1 d , 1 $ . Exj). 38-46 millim. 



Larva. Head, front of 1st somite, and legs yellow ; the rest brown, 

 with dorsal and subdorsal series of yellowish-white spots, small at 

 anterior edges of somites and large at posterior edges ; a subdorsal 

 series of white points on middle of abdominal somites ; broad lateral 

 and ventral yellowish-white bands, each on part of two somites ; 

 warts brown, each with one hair, wart vi. on somites 5 to 9 placed 

 on white spots. Foot-plants : Liliaceoi. 



1791. Brithys crini. 



NocUia crini, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 587 (1775). 



h'ociua dominica, Oram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 238, pi. 399. f. H (1782); 



Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 14, pi. 145. ff. 2, 2 a ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 167. 



Head and thorax blackish ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 whitish, more or less strongly tinged with fuscous, the ventral 

 surface fuscous. Fore wing dark leaden grey ; the subbasal line 

 represented by a black striga below costa ; the antemedial line 

 irregularly waved, oblique towards costa, then closely approximated 

 to the reniform ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform small, 

 greyish with rufous annulus ; postmedial line somewhat dentate 

 and produced to short streaks on the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, and below vein 3 bent inwards to lower edge of reniform, 

 then approximated to antemedial line, some pale points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of pale spots 

 defined on inner side by a scries of somewhat dentate rufous marks, 



