ACKAPEX. :jfOIfAGEIA. 321 



veins G to 1 ; an ol)lique difFused rufous fascia from termen below 

 apex to vein 3 ; a slight brown terminal line ; cilia yellowish Avhite 

 witli a faint brownish line through them. Hind wing white faintly 

 tinged with ochreous ; the underside white with the costal area 

 tniged with ochreous. 



Hah. Ceylon, Maskeliya {Pole), 1 $ type. Ex^y. 22 millim. 



4740. Acrapex senigma. 



Epimecia (snigma, Feld. Reis. Nov. ])1. 108. f. 47 (1871). 



Head ochreous white ; thorax pale pink ; pectus and legs 

 yellowish white ; abdomen white, tlie ventral surface yellowish. 

 Fore wing pale pink ; tlie costal edge white ; a white streak in 

 discal fold fi"om middle of cell to before termen at vein 5 ; a white 

 streak in basal half of submedian fold; the veins of terminal half 

 slightly streaked with Avbite. Hind wing pure white ; the under- 

 .••ide with the costal area faintly tinged with pink. 



Hah. Natal, Colenso (Janse), 1 J; Basutoland, Masite (Craw- 

 shay), 1 (5 ; C. CoLONr, Annshaw {Miss F. Barrcit), 1 c5' , 2 J . 

 Exp. 24-28 millim. 



Genus NONAGRIA. 



Type. 

 Nonariria. Oclis. Sclimett. Eur. iv. p, 82 (1810), iion descr. ; 



Treit,. Sebniett. Eur. v. (2) p. 309 ( 1825) mari/inia. 



Chilodes, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Sclimett. ii. p. 226 (1845) mariiima. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi obliquely upturned, slender, the 2nd joint 

 reaching about to middle of frons, moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd 

 moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna' of male ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pi-o- and metathorax with small 

 spreading crests ; build slender ; tibite moderately fringed with hair; abdomen 

 long, with lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing narrow and 

 elongate, the apex somewhat produced and acute, the ternen oblique from 

 vein 3 to tornus, not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; fi from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars : G, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



A. Fore wing with the veins f)f costal area streaked with white... mariiirna. 



B. Fore wing with the veins dark defined by slight pale streaks eneruata. 



4750. Nonagria maritima. 



Noctua maritima, Tausch. Mem. Mosc. 181 1, i. p. 178, pi. 13. f 5; Staud, 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 188. 

 T(/rtrix bipuucfana. Ilaw. Trans. Ent. Soc. i. p. 337 (1812). 

 Kx-tua. ulvm. Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 6;!5-6 & 666-8 (1818) 



Herr.-Schaff. Eur Schmett., Noct. f. 397. 

 3/e//« smem. Curt. Brit. Ent. vi. p. 201 (1828); Steph. 111. Brit. Enl 



ria\isi. iv. p. 298. 

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