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NOCTUID^. 



extending to below cell and to costa near apex ; an oblique waved 

 medial line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line rather 

 indistinct, strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa and oblique 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line whitish defined by fuscous on inner 

 side, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly dentate at veins 4, 3 ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous ; the 

 underside with traces of curved postmedial line. 



Hah. 13r. E. Africa, Ngonini, 1 $ , Eb Urru (Betton), 3 ? type. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



*1513. Chabuata albimargo. (Plate XC. fig. 2.) 

 Orthodes albimargo, Guen. Noct. i. p. 373 (1852). 



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

 gre5'^-brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore Aving grey, suffused with 

 red-brown and thickly irroratcd with dark brown, the inner 

 margin narrowly white from antemedial line to tornus ; sub- 

 basal line indistinct, curved, from cesta to submedian fold, a 

 small black spot beyond it in cell ; antemedial line defined by 

 whitish on inner side, curved ; claviform absent ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, brown with whitish annuli slightly defined by 

 brown ; a fuscous medial line oblique from costa to lower angle of 

 cell where it is angled ; postmedial line double, filled in with 

 greyish, the outer line most prominent, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 5, then incurved, a series of dark points beyond it 

 on the veins ; subterminal line ochreous defined by red-brown on 

 inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; the veins of terminal area with fine pale streaks ; a series 

 of dark points just before termen, a fine waved dark terminal line. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia ochreous whitish ; the underside 

 pale, thickly irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunule and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Brazil, type t (5 in Coll. Oberthiir. Exp. 44 millim. 



1514. Chabuata dulcinea. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 16.) 



Caradrina dulcinea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 125. 



Head and thorax pale red-brown, some of the hairs tipped with 

 white ; palpi tinged with fuscous at sides ; abdomen pale red- 

 brown, sometimes tinged with purplish. Fore wing pale red-brown 

 slightly suffused with purple ; a small white-tipped black tuft of 

 hair at base ; an indistinct pale waved subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line double, filled in with gi'cyish, 

 angled outwards below costa, then waved, oblique, bent inwards to 

 inner margin ; orbicular and reniform well developed, with 

 yellowish or whitish annuli, the former round, the latter with its 

 lower part filled in with black ; a diffused medial line oblique from 

 costa to median nervure ; postmedial line double, minutely dentate 

 and produced to black and white points on the veins, bent outwards 



