HADENA. 215 



Sect. II. Thorax with spreadiug crest. 



A. Fore wing with the basal area blackish bidgeri. 



B. Fore wiug with the basal area uot blackish ruptiliiiea. 



1432, Hadena bulgeri. 



Mamestra hulgeri, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 18 (1874). 



Head aud thorax purplish fuscous, slightly mixed with brown 

 and grey : tegulaj with slight dark medial line ; tarsi with pale 

 rings ; abdomen white more or'less tinged with brownish ochreous, 

 the anal tuft brown. Fore wing brown and ochreous, the basal 

 and postuiedial areas almost entirely sui5used with leaden fuscous, 

 the veins of medial area streaked with ochreous ; subbasal line 

 indistinct, waved from costa to siibmedian fold ; antemedial line 

 double, waved ; claviform small, fuscous defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reuiform small, with brown centres and whitish anuuli defined 

 by black, the former elliptical, nearly erect, the latter with the 

 discocellulars whitish and more or less angled inwards on median 

 uervure, the ceU before and between the stigmata and the area 



Fig. 30. — Hadena bulgeri, (^ . ]. 



beyond the reniform darker ; a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish, defined on inner side by a series of rather 

 large brown and black dentate marks, angled outwards on vein 7 

 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of black lunules ; 

 cilia with fine ochreous lines at base and middle. Hind wing pure 

 white, with brown terminal line from apex to vein 2, in female the 

 terminal half suffused with fuscous ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule aud postmedial 

 series of short streaks on the veins. 



Hab. Bk. E. Afkica, Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 1 $ , Eb Urru 

 (Betton), 1 d ; Natal, Estcourt (RutcMnson), 3 J , 2 $ ; Cape 

 Colony, Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 7 d, 1 $• Exp. 32-40 

 millim. 



1433. Hadena ruptilinea. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 13.) 



I)ianth<£cia ruptilinea, Wlk. xi. 507 (1857j. 

 Head and thorax grey, reddish brown, and black mixed ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen pale brown. Fore wing pale red- 

 brown irrorated with black ; the veins streaked with white ; the 

 costal and inner areas suffused with white; subbasal line black 



