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NOCTUID^. 



Genus DAPH^NURA. 



Type. 



BaphcBnum, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) ii. p. 457 (1878) fasciata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending to well beyond frons, 

 the 2nd joint clothed with long hair, the 3rd moderate ; irons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennas of male minutely serrate and fasciculate ; thorax clothed 

 with long rough hair only and without crests ; tibije clothed with rough hair ; 

 abdomen clothed with rough hair and without crests, the male with tufts of 

 long hair from the basal stigmata, the claspers large and tufted with hair. 

 Fore wing rather narrow and elongate, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely 

 curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 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 just below middle of disco- 

 eellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4985. Daphsenura fasciata. 



DapJusnura fasciata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) ii. p. 457 (1878) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Lep. Het. p. 2U4. 



Head and thorax bright crimson ; palpi and antennae black ; 

 patagia witli the outer edge and tips black ; pectus and legs black ; 

 abdomen black with the last two segments bright crimson except 

 below. Fore wing black ; subbasal line orange, oblique, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; two oblique orange antemedial bands with 



Fig. 237. — Da phanura fasciata, (^ . 



rather irregular edges, the outer arising just below costa and 

 somewhat expanding towards inner margin ; a medial orange band 

 expanding on costal halt into a large patch with curved outer edge 

 and enclosing the black renifoim, not quite reaching inner margin; 

 a postmedial orange band, excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved and narrowing to inner margin. Hind wing orange- 

 yellow ; the inner area black, its upper edge slightly angled above 

 tornus; a black terminal band expanding slightly at apex. Under- 

 side of fore wing orange, the base black, an incurved medial 

 blackish band obsolescent at middle, reniform black, a black post- 

 medial band excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, and a 

 terminal band ; hind wing with traces of oblique medial line formed 

 by a i'ew black scales, black discoidal point and some scales on costa 

 beyond middle, the inner and terminal areas as above. 



IJah. Madagascar, Ellongo (Cowan), 1^,1$ type, Fianarantsoa 

 {Cowan), 1 d , 1 $ • ^^P- 54-60 millim. 



