318 noctuid.e. 



terminal series of slight black Iunules: cilia dark brown mixed 

 with ochreous. Hind wing red-brown ; cilia whitish at tips ; the 

 underside grey suffused with fuscous, traces of a dark discoidal spot 

 and diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hab. Sierra Leone {Morgan), 1 3 type ; Uganda, Ketoma 

 {Doggett), 1 3, Mulema (Doggett), 1 3; Mashon aland, Salisbury 

 (Marshall), 4 3 . Exp. 22-24 millim. 



4742. Acrapex brunnea, n. sp. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 11.) 

 Acrapex leucophlebia, Hmpsn. Aim. S. Afr. Mub. ii. p. 306 (1902), part. 



Head and thorax dark brown slightly mixed with ochreous ; 

 thorax ochreous tinged with rufous; pectus and legs ochreous 

 mixed with brown ; abdomen ochreous suffused with brown. Fore 

 wing ochreous, the costal area suffused with red-brown leaving 

 slight pale streaks on the veins ; a diffused brown streak along 

 median nervure and thence to the subterminal oblique fascia, with 

 two white points on it at lower angle of cell ; a slight brown streak 

 below base of cell ; an oblique pale fascia from apex to discal fold 

 with a diffused dark brown fascia below it from termen below apex 

 to vein 3 with minute black streaks on it in the interspaces ; a 

 terminal series of slight black Iunules ; cilia ochreous mixed with 

 brown and with brown line near base. Hind wing ochreous white, 

 the veins and terminal area tinged with brown ; a fine brown 

 terminal line ; cilia w r hitish with a slight brown line near base ; 

 the underside whitish with the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with reddish brown. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing more uniformly tinged with browu. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing without the w r hite points at lower angle of 

 cell. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Nairobi (Betton), 3 3 , Machakos ( Crawsliay), 

 5 3 type: Uganda, Karasa (Betton), 1 3 , Mulema (Doggett), 1 3, 

 Ketoma (Doggett), 2 3 ; Hashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 3 ; 

 Gazaland, Mt. Chirinda (Marshall), 1 3 ; Transvaal (Dead), 1 3 , 

 (Janse), 1 3 ; Natal, Karkloof (Marshall), 1 3 , Estcourt (Hutchin- 

 son), 3 3 , 1 2 > Durban (Bowker, Gooch), 2 3 ; Ceylon, Maskeliya 

 (de Mowbray), 1 J; Borneo, Pulo Laut (Doherty), 2 $; Br. N. 

 Guinea, Owgarrsi (MeeJc); Queensland, Gayndah, 1 $ ; S. Australia 

 (Arnold), 13. Exp. 20-30 millim. 



4743. Acrapex albivena, n. sp. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 12.) 



3 . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some ochreous ; 

 tarsi with slight pale rings ; abdomen pale ochreous mixed with 

 brown. Fore wing ochreous whitish suffused and irrorated with 

 black-brown leaving whitish streaks on the veins ; a whitish streak 

 in discal fold from near base to near termen, then bent upwards to 

 apex ; a diffused rufous fascia above vein 1 ; a terminal series of 



