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NOCTUIDJE. 



irregularly waved dark brown line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin near tornus, with two dark brown streaks from it in sub- 

 median interspace, the upper ending at the yellow patch, the lower 

 extending to tornus ; postmedial line dark and bent outwards below 

 costa, then obsolescent, slightly angled inwards in discal and sub- 

 median folds ; traces of a minutely waved subterminal line ; a dark 



Fig. 181. — Cyclopera bucephalidia, §• \. 



brown terminal line ; cilia chequered dark brown and white. Hind 

 wing whitish thickly irrorated with brown ; a terminal series of 

 brown striae ; cilia white ; the underside white slightly irrorated 

 with brown. 



Hub. Bechttanaland, N'Gami (Lugard), 1 § type ; Transvaal 

 (Feud), 1 2 5 Natal, Coast belt {Barker). Exp. 16 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennas of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing violaceous grey irrorated with brown similis. 



B. Fore wing ocbreous tinged with rufous galactiplaga. 



4853. Cyclopera similis. 



Megalodes similis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 382 (1902). 



(5 1 . Head and thorax violaceous grey tinged with brown and 

 fuscous ; antennae pale grey ; palpi and sides of frons brownish ; 

 legs yellowish suffused with dark brown : abdomen pale yellow 

 irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing violaceous grey irrorated 

 with reddish brown especially on basal, costal, and inner 



Cyclopera similis, $ . 



areas ; orbicular a whitish lunule incompletely defined by dark 

 scales, narrow and produced above, expanding and with some 

 yellow and brown in it below ; reniform yellow with some rufous 

 in centre, narrow and with some white on it above, included in a 

 large rounded yellow patch suffused with rufous on inner side which 



