sECUsio. 491 



Sect. II. (Secusio). Antenmc of female ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the grouiid-colour whitish or yellowish mania. 



B. Fore wing grey-brown, with postmedial series of whitish spots strigala. 



2097. Secusio mania. (Plato J^. ii-,^ 15.) 



Secmio mania, Druce, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 672 (18S8); Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 419. 



Head orange, the palpi except at base, lower part of frons, and a 

 spot on vertex black ; antennae black, with some white on shaft 

 above; teguloe orange with black .spots; thorax whitish, with black 

 streaks on patagia and vertex, the metathorax with some orange ; 

 pectus orange, with black spots ; legs whitish striped with black ; 

 abdomen orange-yellow above, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral 

 series of black points, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing 

 whitish or yellowish ; the veins of basal half whitish defined ]iy brown 

 streaks, of terminal half brown ; a more or less developed diffused 

 medial brown band from costa to below cell ; the terminal area 

 sutfused with brown broadly at costa, narrowing to tornus ; cilia 

 blackish, pale at tips. Hind wing orange-yellow, sometimes with 

 deeper terminal band, or with slight dark streaks on extremities 

 of veins towards apex. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing fuscous brown,. with traces of pale oblique 

 postmedial band. 



Hah. Uelagoa Bay [Mrs. Monteiro, Kenricl'), 2 d" , 3 2 • i^-vjp, 

 44 millim. 



2098. Secusio strigata. 



Secusio sfngata, Wlk. ii. 559 (1854) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 50 ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 419. 

 iV^^c^c/«cr« /*_(//Hc««a, Gerst. Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii. p. 360 (1871); Van der 



Deckeii, Reisen, iii. (2) p. 377, pi. 16. f. 1 ; Kirby, Cat. Hot. p. 419. 

 Secusio parvipuncta, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 46, pi. 139. f. 6 



(1891); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 419. 



Head orange, the palpi except at base, antenna^, and spots oa 

 frons and vertex black ; tegula) orange with black spots ; patagia 

 and thorax black-brown with pale streaks ; metathorax with orange 



patch ; pectus orange with black 



^BIEfc>„/\. ^^^ ^^^ spots ; legs brown with pale 



i WHU ^^^v^ /^^^-<^^^^ y streaks; abdomen orange, with 



^H^ W^^^^T^ ^ lateral and sublateral series of 



13 ^^^^^^^ ■>jf. black points, the ventral sur- 



, ^ v\ \vv ^ ^^^^ paler. Fore wing grey- 



\\_\>^ brown ; the veins of basal half 



V\'i. -IW). ~ Secusio St ricjata,^. [. ^j^^ Tmle streaks; an obliiiue 



(From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) „„ f„,, i: i r *• „ 



^ ' postmedial series ot tour 



whitish spots, sometimes entirely absent, extending from costa to 



vein 1, varying much in size and often with an additional spot 



beyond it above vein 13 ; cilia fulvous or jtale at tips. Hind wing 



