454 



NOCTUIDJ?. 



round base of aiitcniKT, and on back of head orange; thorax grey, 

 the base of tegula' and patiigia wliite ; pro-, meso-, and luftatborax 

 with paired yellow spots ; pectus and legs black, the latter banded 

 with orange; abdomen fiiscons with orange bands, the hair at base 

 grey or whitish. Fore wing grey : the costal area and cell whitish 

 to near apex, before the antemedial line extending to vein 1 ; the 

 lines strong, black ; subbasal and antemedial lines sinuous, the 

 former from costa to vein 1, the latter slightly angled inwards in 



Fig. 128. — Biaphone eumela, J- t 



cell ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform a crimson lunule, 

 defined by black at sides ; postmcdial line angled outwards between 

 veins G and 5, then incurved, defined by M'hite on outer side ; no 

 subtermiual line ; cilia chequered orange and fuscous. Hind wing 

 pure white, sometimes with curved postmcdial line ; the underside 

 always with postmedial mark on costa. 



$. Hind wing suffused with fuscous, the base often whitish; 

 cilia chequered fuscous and white ; a sinuous postmedial line 

 showing through from underside. 



Ab. 1. mossamhicensis. Antennae of male strongly serrate ; fore 

 wing with the crimson centre of reniform large and rounded. 



Hah. C. Afkica, Staz Gadda (Emin Pasha), 1 $ ; Portuguese 

 E. Afkica, Chiperoni {Kirhij), 1 S ; Angola ; Transvaal, Piet 

 lletief ( CraivsJuuf), 1 5 ; Natal, Newcastle, 1 J , Karkloof 

 (MarsJiall), 1 $ , Durban (Giieinziiis, Leigh), 1 cJ , 2 § ; Basutoland, 

 Masite (Weiiiall), 1 J; Gate Colony, 3 5, Grahamstown, 1 S , 

 ]3rak Kloof (White), 1 $ . Exi^. 40-52 millim. 



Larva. Fawcett, Trans. Zool. Soc. xv. p. 318, pi. 49. ff. 10, 11. 

 Buff; each somite with a broad dark crimson band except the 

 1st and lith, where the band is pale ferruginous with some small 

 black spots. At the final moult the bands become velvety black 

 except on ]st and 11th somites, and the ground-colour is pale 

 gri.-enish. Head, legs, and claspers pale ferruginous. Food-plant, 

 Or <iithofjaluni ecldoni. 



Genus POLYTELODES, nov. 



Tj-pe, V.fiorifera. 



Proboscis slender, aborted; palpi oblique, short, clothed with hair; frons 

 with roughened rounded prouiiiience with corneous jjlate below it; eyes large, 

 rounded; anlennro of male ciliated; head and thorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales and without distinct crests; abdomen with some rough hair at base and 

 without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the lernien obliquely 



