18 NOCTFIDiE. 



1140. Crater estra lucina. 



Sahara lucina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 296, pi, 27. f.27 (1889), 



Head and thorax red-bro-svn mixed with whitish ; tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen red-brown, dorsally suffused with black. 

 Fore wing pale grey-brown suffused in parts with ])urplish brown, 

 the area between the antemedial and medial lines strongly suffused ; 

 a double, waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a 

 double antemedial line angled outwards below costa, then strongly 

 excurved ; claviform defined by black, very short and broad ; 

 orbicular and reniform with pale brownish centres and grey annuli, 

 the former defined by black, rather pointed above and dilated 

 below, the latter very indistinct ; a waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below 



Fig. 8.— Craierestra lucina, J, }. 



costa and strongly incurved below vein 4, some pale points on 

 costa beyond it ; subtermiual line pale, defined on inner side by a 

 series of slight dark marks, and with some fuscous suffusion beyond 

 it ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown ; the underside ochreous whitish irrorated with dark brown, 

 the basal area suffused with fuscous except towards costa, a black 

 discoidal lunule, a diffused fuscous subterminal band. 



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1141. Craterestra niveopicta. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 26.) 



Perigea niveopicta. Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 124, J. 

 Periffea florinda, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 125, (^ ■ 



Head and thorax purplish brown mixed with some black, some 

 of the scales tipped with grey ; tarsi black with whitish rings ; 

 abdomen brown, whitish at base. Fore wing brown irrorated with 

 black and grey, and with a purplish gloss ; subbasal line double, 

 waved, from costa to vein 1, but interrupted in cell ; antemedial 

 line double, irregularly waved, oblique ; claviform short and broad, 

 defined by black : orbicular and reniform with brown centres and 

 white annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter open 

 above and below and with some blackish streaks from it to post- 

 medial line ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line defined 



