Sl'G NOCTUID.E. 



47oi\ Sesamia coniota. (^ Plate CXLIV. fig, 19.) 

 Sesamia coniota, Huipsn. I nn. S. Afr. Mu?. ii. p. 2U7 (1902). 



Head and thorax ochreous white with a faint rufous tinge ; 

 palpi fuscous, pale at tips ; fore legs above, the spurs of mid and 

 hind tibiae and the extremities of tarsi tinged \\\\\\ fuscous ; abdomea 

 ochreous white. Fore wing ])ale ochreous with a faint rufous tinge 

 and sparsely irrorated with black ; an antemedial black point in 

 submedian fold ; traces of a black discoidal point ; a curved post- 

 medial series of black points on the veins, ending with a point 

 nearer base in submedian fold ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing pure white ; the underside with the costal area tinged 

 with ochreous. 



y/«6. Masuonatand, Salisbury (i/ar«^f?Z/,Z)o6J?"e), 4 c? , 1 $ type; 

 C. Colony, Annshaw {Miss F. Barrett), 1 c? . Exp. 18-2-1 millim. 



Sect. II. Antecnse of male bipectiuate with extremely short branches, the apex 

 serrate. 



A. (Microsempra). Hind wing with veins 3, 4 strongly stalked in male, from 

 cell in female. 



4756. Sesamia pallida. 



Microsemyra pallida, Eutl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 15.'); Hiupsn. Moths Iiid. ii. 

 p. 286. 



Head and thorax ochreous white ; palpi tinged with fuscous above ; 



Fig. \A'i.— Sesamia pallida, J. \. 



abdomen white. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with a ft-w 

 fuscous scales ; an antemedial black point in submedian fold : traces! 

 of an oblifjuely curved postmedial series of points on the veins with j 

 more prominent black points before them in discul and submedian j 

 iolds ; a terminal series of slight black points; cilia with a slight 

 dark 1 ne near base. Hind wing pure white ; the underside with the! 

 costal area slightly tinged with ochreous. 



Hah. Bombay, Mhow {Swinhoe), 1 c? , 1 $ tvpe. Ea-p. 6 ^-, 

 $ 24 millim. 



B. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 fiom cell in both sexes. 



n. Fore wing with .-inte- and postmedial dentate lines ndmtincta. 



b. Vore wing without ante- and postmedial lines. 



a'. Fore wing witii the costal area white albico&taia, 



b\ Fore wing with the costal area not white iiifercns. 



