SESAMIA. 325 



Nonagria sacchari, Wllstn. A. M. N. H. (3) i. p. 117 (1858); Beth.-Eaker, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 209, pi. 12. f. 4. 

 Sesamia madagascariensis, Saalui. Lep. Madag. p. 262 (1891). 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi fuscous 

 above; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous suffused 

 with rufous, the extremity of median nervure with faint diffused 

 brownish streak with a faint ochreous point on it at lower angle 

 of cell ; usually with slight antemedial point in submedian fold and 

 curved postmedial series of points on the veins with other 

 points before it in discal and submedian folds; a slight brown 



Fig. 142. — Sesamia mteria, J. \. 



terminal line ; cilia ochreous white with two slight brown lines 

 through them. Hind wing pure white ; the underside with the 

 costal area faintly tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown. 



Hub. S.E. France ; Spain, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Centr. Italy ; 

 Algeria, Biskra (Mrs. Nicholl, Walsingham), 2 £ > Morocco, 

 Tangier, 1 ^ , Leech Coll. ; Madeira ( Wollaston), 1 tf type sacchari, 

 Funchal (S. S. Flower), 1 tf ; Canaries (Marsden), 2 <j? ; Congo 

 Boma (Christy), 1 $ ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 $ ; 

 Natal (Gooch), 1 $ ; C. Colony (Sir A. Smith), 1 $ type incerta ; 

 Madagascar ; Bourbon. Exp. 34-42 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 165; Hitm. Eaup. p. 105. 



Reddish above, yellowish below. Foot- plants, in stalks of Maize 

 Corn, Beed, Sugar-cane, &c. 6. 



4754. Sesamia calamistis, n. sp. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 18.) 



Head and thorax pale ochreous mixed with brown especially on 

 tegulae ; palpi browner ; abdomen white slightly tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing pale ochreous irrorated with black-brown ; an 

 antemedial black point in submedian fold ; a black discoidal point 

 and a point in discal fold beyond the cell with slight ochreous streak 

 between them; a postmedial series of black points on the veins, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, with a point in submedian fold 

 nearer base ; a rather punctiform black-brown terminal line not 

 quite reaching apex and with faint brown shade before it ; cilia 

 pale ochreous with slight brown lines at middle and near tips. 

 Hind wing pure white ; the underside with the costal area slightly 

 tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown. 



Ilab. C. Colony, Grahanistown, 1 J , 1 5 type, Stellenbosch, 

 1 § . Exp. L-G millim. 



