182 Mr. L. B. Prout on 
mixed with dark grey, the anal tuft pale; pectus and venter 
pale grey. 
Fore wing moderately broad, costa curved towards the 
apex, which is minutely faleate, termen otherwise more 
couvex than in mercatoria, Fabr.; light yellow-brown or 
red-brown, with strong vinaceous reflections—at least, in 
median area; distal area and costal edge generally more 
yellow; a aviide dot close to base; Paes grey or blackish; 
subbasal faint and interrupted, obsolete posteriorly ; antes 
median fine, oblique, slightly crenulate, especially in anterior 
part 5 median rather thick, almost straight, pu proximad 
int front of C, placed beyond middle of wing ; postmedian 
fine, finely crenulate- dentate, slightly angled at PR ; orbicular 
stigma represented by a black dot about 2 mm. from ante- 
median line, reniform by an anterior and a posterior black 
dot, 2 or 38 mm. inside median shade, with a weaker dot 
more proximally placed between them ; a small pale violet- 
grey or somewhat vinaceous apical patch ; a row of minute 
paired interneural dots (proximally black, distally white) 
close to termen. 
Hind wing dusky greyish-ochreous, becoming almost 
black distally between costa and M? and with more irregular 
blackish admixture near tornus; a small whitish apical spot; 
an ill-lefined light ochreous-brown band beyond middle, 
from Kk! or R? towards tornus, interrupted posteriorly ; a 
light brown terminal patch towards tornus; fringe (with 
extreme termen) whitish from before R! to behind R’, 
otherwise brown. 
Fore wing beneath light brown, violet-grey along costa and 
part of termen, somewhat clouded in cell and behind proximal 
half of M?; cell-spot large, crescentic, black, touching the faint 
median shade; postmedian black, forming a very slight 
regular curve ; a large black blotch beyond this, mainly be- 
tween R? and M’; traces of a pale crenulate subterminal line; 
minute admarginal dots nearly as above, but with whitish 
shading proximally. Hind wing beneath pale grey, more 
brownish costally and apically than posteriorly ; a sharp black 
cell-dot, which sometimes shows through on upperside ; three 
(usually in part ill-defined) brown lines beyond, the second 
and third dentate, the latter ending in a dark spot close 
to tornus; admarginal dots nearly as on fore wing; fringe 
warm brown except about the radials, posteriorly in dark- 
marked specimens fuscous. 
Central Madagascar, 2500 feet, Jan—March 1911 (F. B. 
Pratt),,4 3 3,2 322 
Differs from mercatoria, Fabr., in shape, in straight median 
