416 NOCTUID.T.. 



apex, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge curved, some whitish 

 marks on termen from vein 7 to tornus ; hind wing with the termen 

 narrowly dark to hefore middle. 



Hab. Mashojstaland (Dobbie), 1 <J , 1 $ , Salisbury (Marshall), 



I $ type. Exp. 44-52 millim. 



*4885. Paratuerta laminifera. 



Euscirrhopterus laminifer, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 140, f. 133 (1884) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 40. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; abdomen orange. 

 Fore wing red-brown, the inner area and streaks on the veins 

 darker, the terminal area grey ; a black discoidal point ; a white 

 fascia in submedian interspace from near base to postmedial line, 

 very narrow to before middle, where it is interrupted, then broader, 

 its lower edge produced to a point beyond middle, ending as a 

 narrow streak from upper edge ; postmedial line obliquely curved 

 from costa towards apex to extremity of the white fascia ; a slight 

 pale subterminal line, acutely angled inwards in submedian fold ; a 

 fine dark terminal line. Hind wing orange-yellow with rather 

 diffused brown terminal band from apex to just above tornus, its 

 inner edge angled inwards in submedian fold. 



Hab. Madagascar, Nossi-be. Exp. 50 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



Genus GEEEA. 



Type. 



Germ, Wlk. xxxi. 141 (1854) radicalis. 



Fenaria, Grote, Papilio, ii. p. 132 (1882) sevorsa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to just beyond frons, the 

 2nd joint fringed with long hair below, the 3rd short ; frons with large rounded 

 prominence with truncate conical process at centre, with raised edges and 

 corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male bipectinate with 

 moderate branches to apex, of female serrate; thorax clothed with hair and 

 hair-like scales and without crests; tibia; fringed with long hair; abdomen 

 with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 



II from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with yellow band beyond the cell on underside. 



a. Shoulders with orange patches radicalis. 



b. Shoulders without orange patches sccorsa. 



B. Fore wing with white band beyond the cell on underside alia. 



48SG. Gerra radicalis. 



Gcrra radicalis, Wlk. xxxi. 141 (1854); Kirby, Cat, Lep. Het. p. 406. 

 Diamuna admsta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 334, pi. 30. f. 20 



(1889). 



Head and thorax chocolate-brown with a few metallic blue scales; 



