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noctuid^:. 



brown ; cilia white, yellowish at base and with brown line near 

 base from apex to vein 2. Underside of fore wing with the patch 

 of androconia in cell white, yellow at extremity ; hind wing with 

 the costa tinged with yellow towards base, the streak of scales 

 below end of cell of male brown, a brown postmedial bar from 

 costa to vein 6, some brown irroration at apex and some slight black 

 points on apical part of termen. 



Hub. Br. E. Africa, Kikuyu (Orawshay), 1 6 ; Natal 

 (Gueinzius, Leigh), 2 tf , 1 $ type: C. Colony, Transkei (Miss 

 F. Barrett), 2 $ . Exp. 34-36 millim. 



B. Abdomen of male without lateral tufts of bair ; fore wing with small 

 patch of androconia in cell on underside ; hind wing without streak of 

 androconia below cell. 



4052. Ariathisa semiluna. 



Kifocris semiluna, Hmpsn. Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. ined. pi. iv. f. 13. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purplish grey ; palpi 

 black- brown, white at tips; tegulae with black-brown band at base; 

 tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown. Fore wing 

 purplish grey suffused and irrorated with red-brown ; subbasal line 

 black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, 

 bent inwards to costa, then sinuous, excurved above inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform black-brown slightly defined by whitish, 

 their lower extremities connected by a fascia, forming a U-shaped 

 mark ; traces of a dark medial shade ; postmedial line slight, black, 



Fig. 105. — Ariathisa semiluna, <$ . \. 



interrupted, with small black spot at costa, oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, then dentate, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line in- 

 distinct, pale, defined on inner side by slight dentate dark marks 

 from below costa to vein 4, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a terminal series of minute black lunules. Hind wing 

 greyish tinged with ochreous, the termen rather darker from apex 

 to submedian fold ; cilia ochreous white. Underside of fore wing 

 of male with the patch of androconia in cell ochreous ; hind wing 

 whitish, the costal area irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal 

 lunule, rather diffused indistinct postmedial line from costa to 

 vein 3, and terminal series of small black lunules. 



Hub. Br. E. Africa, JS T dimu (Betton), 1 5 , Uganda Ry., Mile 478 

 (Betton), 1 5 , E. Quaso (Betton), 1 d , 1 $; Uganda, Ruwenzori, 

 6000' ( Wollaston), 1 tf type. Exp. 32-36 millim. 



