oG4 NOCTUIDJ;:. 



with black; tlie veins whitish definocl l)y fine pale brown-pink 

 streaks, the interspaces of terminal area also streaked with brown- 

 pink ; a siiinous black streak below base of cell to orij^in of vein 2 ; 

 a black point in lower angle of cell ; a slight triangular dark 

 shade from terraen below apex. Hind wing pure white ; the 

 underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown and 

 some black jioiiits on termen from apex to vein 2. 



llah. ]{r. E. Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe (^Betlon), 1 c? type. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



1980. Borolia melanostrota, n. sp. (Plate XCIY. fig. 28.) 



Head and thorax whitish, with a slight violaceous tinge and 

 mixed with fuscous; tegulaj with three dark lines; abdomen 

 ochreous white, the ventral surface irrorated with black. Fore 

 wing white with a slight violaceous tinge and rather thickly 

 irrorated with black ; the veins whitish slightly defined by fine 

 brown streaks, the interspaces of terminal half also slightly 

 streaked with brown ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell to 

 origin of vein 2 ; median nervure defined by slight fuscous 

 suffusion above and below, the white on it developed into a slight 

 hook at lower angle, in which there is a black point ; a wedge- 

 shaped dark shade from termen below apex to lower angle of cell; 

 traces of an antemedial line on inner area, angled outwards in 

 submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; a 

 postmedial series of black points conjoined by traces of a dentate 

 line, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; a 

 terminal series of black poii-ts. Hind w'ing pure white ; the 

 underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, some 

 black points on termen from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. ZuLULAND, Lr. Tugela {Reynolds), 1 c^ type ; Natal, 

 AVeenen, 1 5 ; Cape Colony, Transkei {Miss V. Barrett), 1 5 . 

 Exji. 32-36 millim. 



1981. Borolia percussa. 



Leucania percussa, Butl. P. Z. S. 1880, p. G74. 



Lencania howra, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 357, pi. 37. f. 10; Hmpsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 271. 

 Leucajiia basilinea, Swinh. Trans. Eat. Soc. 1890, p. 220, pi. vii. f. 6. 



Head and thorax Avhitish mixed with pale brownish ochreous ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; tegulaj with two slight dark lines ; legs 

 streaked with blackish ; abdomen white tinged wnth brownish. 

 Fore wing pale ochreous tinged with brown and sparsely irrorated 

 with black ; the veins whitish defined by fine brown streaks, the 

 interspaces of terminal half also streaked with brown ; the median 

 nervure defijied by fuscous above and below ; a prominent black 

 streak in submedian fold to origin of vein 2; a black point 



