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4757. Sesamia rubritincta. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 20.) 



Sesamia rubritincta, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 442 (1902). 



S . Head and thorax ochreous sutFused with fiery red especially 

 on patagia and prothorax ; palpi, frous, pectus, and fore and mid 

 legs fiery red ; abdomen ochreous tinged with fiery red especially at 

 extremity and on ventral surface. Fore wing pale ochreous, the 

 extremity of median nervure and veins of terminal half slightly 

 streaked with brownish ; traces of a brownish subbasal line angled 

 outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold ; a diffused 

 antemedial pale fiery red patch below the cell ; antemedial line 

 fiery red, minutely dentate, excurved to median nervure, then 

 curved inwards to base at vein 1, with red streak from it above 

 iind below submedian fold to the postmedial line ; some fiery red 

 suffusion in and beyond end of cell with a small ochreous discoidal 

 spot on it ; postmedial line fiery red, somewhat diffused and dentate, 

 exeurved below costa, then oblique and angled inwards in submedian 

 fold ; terminal area suffused with fiery red ; a diffused fuscous 

 black subterminal line with rather dentate outer edge, narrowing 

 to apex and ending below vein 3 ; a strigiform brown terminal 

 line ; cilia pale ochreous slightly tinged with red. Hind wing 

 white, the costal and inner areas, veins and cilia tinged with 

 ochreous ; the underside with the costa tinged with red and with 

 faint red postmedial bar from costa to vein 7. 



Hub. Basutoland, Maseru ( Wroughtori), 1 cj type. Exp. 

 46 millim. 



*4758. Sesamia albicostata. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 21.) 



Sesamia albicostata, Lower, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxix. p. 175 (1905). 



d . Head and thorax pale ochreous ; abdomen white. Fore 

 wing pale ochreous slightly irrorated with fuscous, some black 

 scales in submedian fold ; the costal area white. Hind wing 

 pure white. 



Hob. Victoria, Ocean Grange, type f S in Coll. Lower. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



47-59. Sesamia inferens. 



Leucania inferens, Wlk. ix. 105 (1856); Moore, Lep. Cejl. iii. p. 8, pi. 145 



f. 3; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 284. 

 Leucania proscripf a , Wlk. ix. 106 (1856). 



Sesamia albiciliata, Sneil. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 44, pi. 4. f. 3 (1880). 

 Sesamia, tranquilaris, Butl. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 674. 

 Nonagria gracilis, Butl. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 675. 

 JS'onagria innocens, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 173. 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; abdomen white tinged with 

 ochreous. Fore wing ochreous with a faint rufous tinge ; a diffused 



