402 NOCTUID^. 



rufous ; tegulse with three dark lines ; patagia edged with brown 

 below and black scales above ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with fuscous, the dorsal crest at base blackish. 

 Fore wing very pale olive-brown, sparsely irrorated with black ; 

 subbasal line represented by black strioe from costa and cell ; a short 

 black streak above base of vein 1 ; antcmedial line indistinct, 

 double, waved ; median ncrvure and medial part of vein 1 streaked 

 with white and with black points on them ; orbicular and reniform 

 small and rather ill-defined, situated on a rufous patch in and 

 below cell, the former white, sometimes with fuscous centre, oblicjue 

 and confluent at lower angle of coll with the latter, which is 

 rufous with a black point in lower angle of cell and black patch 

 beyond it ; postmedial line represented by an incomplete double 

 series of black points, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 

 4, then oblique; subterminal line only defined by the area beyond 

 it being dark brown, bent outwards to apex and dentate at veins 

 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered 

 pale black and rufous. Hind wing fuscous brown, the interspaces 

 rather paler towards base ; cilia ochreous with brown line and pale 

 tips : the underside ochreous irrorated with black, the costal and 

 terminal areas tinged with vinous red, a black discoidal lunide 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Natal (Burrows), 1 ? type, Durban (Leijh), 2 $ . Exp. 

 32 miUim. 



1723. Xylomania v-album. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 26.) 



Leucania v-alhum, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 69, pi. 144. f. 10 

 (1891) ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 273. 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with reddish brown ; tegulte 

 with black line near upper edge ; abdomen ochreous suffused with 

 dark brown on dorsum. Fore wing ochreous whitish irrorated 

 and striated with fuscous, less prominently on terminal area ; an 

 ill-defined black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line 

 represented by a black point on costa ; some ferruginous sometimes 

 present in and below cell; the orbicular and reniform whitish, 

 narrow, oblique, confluent below, and forming a V-shaped mark 

 with blackish suffusion before, between its arms and beyond it, a 

 black point on it at lower angle of cell ; some black stria? on costa 

 from before middle to near apex ; traces of an antemedial line 

 angled on median nervure, then reduced to points ; postmedial line 

 ill-defined, angled at vein 4, then oblitjue ; a rather indistinct 

 triangular brown shade from termen below apex ; a terminal series 

 of small black hmules ; cilia brown intersected with white. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown ; cilia whitish ; the underside ochreous white 

 thickly irrorated and striated with black-brown, the terminal area 

 almost entirely black-brown, a large di.scoidal spot. 



Hah. Madras, Nilgiris {Cardeiv, Hamjyson), 1 <£ , 2 5 , type. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



