408 Mr. A. G. Butler on neiv Moths from Madagascar. 



pale sandy brown, the |3rimaries somewhat greyish between 

 the bands ; base suffused with snowy white, which passes 

 gradually into the ground-colour ; a black subbasal spot and 

 an interno-basal black spot upon the long scales below the 

 submedian vein ; other markings indistinct, as follows : — a 

 zigzag brown line crossing the wing just before the basal 

 third, an irregular belt inarched at the extremities and 

 tapering towards the inner margin, before the middle ; a 

 minute brown litura upon the lower discocellular veinlet ; 

 an oblique belt, its inner edge zigzag, below the median 

 vein, bounded on each side and traversed through the 

 middle by brown lines ; external fourth occupied by a broad 

 smoky-brown border, upon which the veins are barred with 

 dark brown and white : secondaries tinted with pink below 

 the median vein ; a large pyriform black basal patch from the 

 middle of the cell to the abdominal margin, and a broad black 

 band tapering at the extremities from costa to first median 

 branch and parallel to outer margin ; between these two black 

 markings is a widely sinuous smoky-brown stripe, most 

 sharply defined at abdominal margin, Avhere it bounds a snow- 

 white anal patch crossed by a curved abbreviated black line ; 

 edge of outer margin dusky, tips of fringes at anal angle 

 black : thorax sordid white, tegulte slightly tinted with pink ; 

 a blackish longitudinal stripe commencing on the top of the 

 head, gradually narrowing to a line as it passes across the 

 collar, and ceasing at about the middle of the thorax ; 

 antennas white at the base ; abdomen flesh-coloured, with 

 diffused sandy olivaceous dorsal patches, excepting on the 

 anal segment. Under surface rosy brownish ; the primaries 

 wath a tapering subcostal whitish streak from the base and an 

 oblique blackish streak from inner margin to median vein ; a 

 faint greyish undulated line beyond the cell from costa to 

 first median vein ; veins towards outer margin barred with 

 black ; a broad external white patch, tapering at each extre- 

 mity : secondaries paler than primaries, whitish towards 

 the base ; a dentate sinuate dusky line bounding the external 

 area, which is as dark as the primaries ; the veins immedi- 

 ately beyond this line barred with black : thorax for the most 

 part whitish, but the palpi, prothorax, and legs rufous-brown, 

 the hind legs, and especially the spurs of these legs, varied 

 with black and white ; venter flesh-tinted, whitish at the 

 sides. Expanse of wings 107 millim. 



Betsileo country [T. Waters). Type Brit. Mus. 



