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with rufous at extremity, the ventral surface rufous irrorated with 

 white. Fore wing pale lemon-yellow ; a rufous patch at base of 

 costa conjoined to a spot below cell, with a rufous streak beyond 

 it on costa; antemedial line greenish grey arising from a small 

 triangular rufous spot on costa, excurved in submedian interspace, 

 then oblique ; a large rather oblique rufous patch from middle of 

 costa to lower angle of cell, rounded below, an oblique greenish 

 grey line from it to inner margin ; postmedial line greenish grey, 

 arising from a small rufous spot on costa, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, oblique below vein 4, the costa 

 beyond it with alternating rufous and white spots ; a rufous patch 

 on costa before the minutely waved greenish-grey subterminal line 

 which is slightly excurved below vein 7 and incurved at discal 

 fold ; a terminal series of greenish rufous-tinged rather diffused 

 lunules ; cilia rufous irrorated with white. Hind wing pale 

 yellow ; a pale rufous discoidal spot, diffused rufous postmedial 

 band obsolescent towards costa, and terminal series of rufous 

 lunules ; cilia white with rufous line through them except towards 

 tornus ; the underside white, the costal area broadly and thickly 

 irrorated with rufous including the indistinct discoidal spot ; a 

 rufous postmedial line incurved in submedian interspace, some 

 rufous irroration on termen and spot in submedian interspace. 



Hob. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 $ type ; Natal, 

 Stanger (Delvin), 1 § . Eoejp. 38 millim. 



4780. Calamia virens. 



Noctua virens, Linn. Svst. Nat. xii. p. 847 (1767) ; Knock, Beitr. Ins. ii. 



pi. 1. f. 1 ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 122. f. I ; Hiibn. Eur. Sehmett., Noct. 



f. 368 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pt. 1, p. 66, pi. 104. f. 6 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 190. 

 Luperina immaculata, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 99 (1871). 



Head and thorax pale yellow-green ; antennae with the shaft 

 white; palpi and tarsi brownish white; abdomen white faintly 

 tinged with fuscous. Fore wing pale yellow-green, the costa and 

 inner margin narrowly white ; the lines absent ; orbicular 



Fig. 155.— Calamia virens, <5. \. 



represented by a small white spot ; the reniform by a small 

 lunule ; cilia white with a faint fuscous line near base. Hind 

 wing white faintly tinged with green, the basal half and inner 

 area with brown ; cilia and underside pure white. 



Ab. 1. immaculata. Fore wing with the white stigmata absent. 



