118 NOCTtJIDJE. 



vein 3, tlie interspaces beyond it with white streaks; a fine black 

 terminal line; cilia pure white. Hind wing white faintly tinged 

 with brown especially on terminal area; traces of sinuous medial 

 and postmedial lines; a black terminal line; cilia pure white; the 

 underside with slight blackish irroration from middle of costa to 

 discocellulars, a terminal series of black points from apex to vein 2. 

 Hah. Transvaal (Bone, Oholmley), 2 J , 3 2 type, Johannesburg 

 (Cooke), 4 2 . Kvp. 22 millim. 



5146. Eublemma leucomelana. (Plate CLI. fig. '32.) 



Eublemnia leucomelana, Hnipsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 420 (1902). 



Head and thorax creamy white; antennae brown ; fore tibise and 

 the tarsi brownish ringed with white ; abdomen white dorsally 

 tinged witli ochreous. Fore wing with the basal half creamy white, 

 the terminal half reddish brown, the outer half of medial area 

 tinged with purplish grey ; a faint diffused subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a slight antemedial dark spot on costa and traces 

 of a line from cell to inner margin ; a black point in middle of cell ; 

 medial line purplish grey defined on inner side by dark brown, 

 dentate outwards on median nervure; a slight black discoidal 

 striga ; postmedial line blackish defined on outer side by white 

 towards costa, excurved below costa and at middle, angled inwards 

 at diseal fold and incurved below vein 4, a white point beyond it on 

 costa; subterminal line indistinct, pale, denned on inner side by 

 some dark red-brown marks and with irregular black spots on 

 outer, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at 

 diseal fold; cilia white tinged with rufous and with a rufous line 

 at middle. Hind wing creamy white, the terminal area tinged 

 with brown, a fine dark terminal line; cilia creamy white; the 

 underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown on 

 terminal half, slight subterminal brownish marks near apex and at 

 diseal and submedian folds and some minute black points on 

 termen. 



Bab. Cape Colony, 1 c? , Deelfontein (Shcjgett), 2 2, Annshaw 

 (Miss F. Barrett), 1 6 , 1 2 type, Exp. 16-18 millim. 



5147. Eublemma ostrina. 



Kcctua ostrhm, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 399,648(1808); Dup. Lep. 



Fr Suppl. iii. p. 614, pi. 44. f. 1; Herr.-Sdiaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct, 



f. 281 ; Rrabr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 13. ff. 3-6. 

 Micro, carthami, Herr.-Sthaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 438, Noct. f. 5bS 



(1845). 

 Anfhophila porphyrina, Frr. Neue Beitr. v. p. 93, pi. 437. ff. 3, 4 (1848); 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 288. 

 Micro, numida, Lucas, Esplor. Alg. p. 388, pi. iii. f. 8 (1848). 

 Micra aestivalis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 247 (1852). 

 Tholpachares purpurata, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 43 (1857). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale olive-ochreous, the head and 

 tegulae tinged with rufous, the abdomen with slight white segmental 



