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5159. Eublemma nyctichroa. n. sp. | Plate CLII. fig. 14.) 



$? . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with some 

 grey ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen pale brown 

 irrorated with fuscous, the tarsi black with pale rings. Eore wing 

 glossy chocolate-brown suffused with fuscous black and slightly 

 irrorated with grey; antemedial line very indistinct, double, a 

 blackish medial shade; postmedial line very indistinct, double filled 

 in with greyish, oblique from costa to vein 6 and incurved lielow 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line hardly traceable, excurved to near termen 

 at middle ; a hue dark terminal line defined on inner side by a very 

 slight whitish line. Hind wing very dark glossy chocolate-brown, 

 the cilia grey brown with a slight pale line at base ; the underside 

 slightly irrorated with grey and with traces of dark discoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial line. 



ffab. Abyssinia, Atbara R. (Gerrard), 1 $; Br. E. Afeica, Eb 

 Vrru (Betton), 1 $ type. Exp. 18 miilim. 



*5100. Eublemma candicans. 



Noctm candicans, Rmbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 10. f. .". i 1 B58 I, " ; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 227. 

 ZV iua extranea, Rmbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 13. f. '_' ( ISfiS), <5. 

 ,N. ua extraria, Rmbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 15 f. 1 1 1S58), £. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen white suffused with ochreous 

 brown. Fore wing white suffused with brown leaving the ; 

 costal area to postmedial line, and cell white ; a faint diffused waved 

 brown antemedial line; a few black scales in middle of cell and a 

 black discoidal striga ; medial line brown, rather diffused, oblique 

 from costa to beyond upper angle of cell and inwardly oblique below 

 vein 4; postmedial line In-own, slightly defined on outer side by 

 white, oblique from costa to vein 7 and inwardly oblique below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line white, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle, defined on outer Bide by small blackish 

 spi'ts; a line rufous terminal line; cilia brownish with white line 

 at base. Hind wing while sufficed with reddish brown, the i 

 area whiter; cilia brownish with a white line at base. Underside 

 of fore wing brown, the inner area white, the veins of terminal 

 area slightly streaked with white ; hind wing creamy white irrorated 

 with a few black-brown scab's, the terminal area tinged with 

 brown. 



J. Ground-colour nearly uniform fuscous grey. 



Al>. 1. <f . Ground-colour whitish, fore wing with some brownish 

 suffusion before subterminal line; hind wing with diffused brown 

 subterminal line. 



Hub. Spain, Andalusia, Malaga in Coll. Pungeler; Ai.i.ii;iv. Exp. 

 3 1 miilim. 



