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NOCTUID^. 



A. Fore wiug with oraiige-i-ed patches in and beyond end of 



cell, the bars of inner area orange-red hcemagrapha. 



B. Fore wing with pink mark in end of cell, the bars of inner 



area blue-black strigicincta. 



*4787. Maznca hsemagrapha, n. sp. (Plate CXLV. fig. 1.) 



c? . Head and and thorax pale yellow ; frons, vertex of head, 

 tegulae at base and near tips, pro- meso- aud raetathorax with black 

 bands; patagia edged with black; antennse black except basal 

 joint ; palpi with black bands on the joints ; tibiie banded with 

 black; abdomen white slightly tinged with ochreous, the basal 

 crest tipped with black ; subbasal black patches on segments 4 to 7 

 and small sublateral spots on segments 5 to 7. Fore wing pale 

 yellow ; five rather oblique bine-black bars from basal half of costa, 

 the first three connected by a slight streak, three bars above end of 

 cell, one towards apex and a forked bar at apex ; the terminal area 

 with six radiating blue-black streaks expanding at the cilia and 

 the streak at diseal fold forked ; the cell aud a large patch beyond 

 it extending to vein 2 orange-red with two small yellow spots 

 defined by black at middle of cell with a black streak above median 

 nervure to the discoidal figure-of-8-shaped mark formed of two 

 yellow spots defined by black, the lower one with black point in 

 centre, a black patch beyond lower angle of cell ; an orange-red 

 streak below basal half of median nervure with oblique red bar from 

 it to inner margin near base and three radiating bars from its 

 extremity; two oblique red bars from the diseal red patch, the 

 inner confluent with the outermost medial bar at inner margin. 

 Hind wing white faintly tinged with ochreous. 



Hah. Gold Coast ; Wassaw Distr,, 1 S type in Coll. llothschild. 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



4788. Mazuca strigicincta. 



Mazuca strigicincta, Wlk. xsxv. 1777 (1866) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 284. 

 Hypsa concinnida, Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. iii. p. 8.0 (1878). 

 Apsarasa Uturata, Eutl. A. M. N. H. (5) vit. p. 37 (1881). 

 Mila hebraica, Auriv. Ent. Tidskr. xii. p. 228, pi. 1. f. '6 (1891). 



Head and thorax pale yellow ; frons with blue-black band above ; 

 back of head with two small spots ; teguloe, pro- meso- and meta- 

 thorax with blue-black bars ; patagia with spots at base and middle ; 

 fore and mid tibiae with blue-black bands, the tarsi black at ex- 

 tremity ; abdomen j^ellowish white with subdorsal blue-black spots 

 on segments 5 to 7, dorsal spot on terminal segment, small sub- 

 dorsal spots on three last segments and ventral spot on terminal 

 segment. Fore wing pale yellow ; two subbasal and two ante- 

 medial oblique blue-black bars from costa, a very oblique medial 

 striga, a short postmedial striga followed by two incurved Hues 

 extending to vein 6, the inner connected by a streak with the 

 discoidal mark, a point on costa towards apex followed by an 



