142 NOCTUID*. 



white, the veins, iniuT and toriniiial areas suffused with brown ; a 

 di.scoidal liinule and po^t medial hue excnrvod at discal fold ; a line 

 dark terminal line sli'.'htly defined hy white on inner side; cilia 

 white with a hrown line thronph them ; the underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, the discoidal lunule 

 and postmedial line strong', a diffused suhterminal band. 



Bab. roKTioiti>K K. AiKicv; Cape Colony, (irahamstowu, 1 S , 

 Capetown, 1 d . Kvjj. i{f)-40 raillim. 



Genus ANDESIA, nov. 



TTi^e, A. aiiisftx. 



Proboscis fullv dpvcloped ; p.ilpi upturned, reaching vertex of bead, the 

 2nd joint i'ringed with foug hair in iVont, tlie 3rd porrect; frons smooth; eyes 

 lim^e, rounded ; antennae of male almost simple, somewhat laminate : he»id and 

 thorax clothed chicUv with scale:*, the frons and vertex of head with tufts of 

 hair, the pro- and raetathorax with spreading crests; pectus and tibiae clothed 

 with Ion" hair: abdomen witli dorsal crest at base only and lateral fringes of 

 hair. Fore wing short, the costa very slightly concave, the terruen obliquely 

 curved, the inner margin slightly lobed near base; veins .S and ."> from near 

 angle of cell ; (» from upper angle ; '.> I'rom 10 anastomosing with S to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with \eins ^.^, 4 from angle of cell; ."> obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



224U, Aiidesia cenistis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with black ; palpi blackish 

 at sides; frons with lateral black bars; tegular with black line 

 near tips ; tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen ochreous brown. 

 Fore wing ])ale ochreous irrorated with fuscous and slightly tinged 

 with purplish, the medial and terminal areas suffused with blackish ; 

 a dift'used black streak below base of cell, a slight subbasal streak 

 in cell and some scales on vein 1 ; subbasal line represented by a 

 black striga from costa : antcmedial line double, strongly excurved : 

 orbicular small, round, witli black centre and ochreous aunulus 

 defined by black; reniform a small ochreous lunule obscurely 



Fig. 44. — Aiidesia criiisfis, ^ . ]. 



defined bv black ; ;in indistinct diffused medial line excurved 

 round orbicular, then incurved ; postmedial line double, oblique 

 from costa to vein <>, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, 

 some slight i)ale and dark j)oint,s beyond it on costa ; sublorminal 

 line formed of pale ochreous striae except towards costa, deKncd by 

 slight somewhat dentate black marks on inner side, and with 



