154 NOCTUID.E. 



5215. Eublemma leucota, n. sp. (Plate CLIII. fig. 10.) 



5 . Head and thorax white, the latter slightly tinged with 

 ochreous ; palpi, antennas, and legs tinged with ochreous ; abdomen 

 white dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore wing white, the terminal 

 area suffused with brownish ochreous ; some brownish irroration 

 on basal half of costa ; a somewhat oblique diffused brownish 

 ochreous medial band with a black spot on it in discal fold, its 

 outer edge slightly incurved below the cell ; some brownish points 

 on costa towards apex ; subterminal line indistinct, white, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle and to tornus, black points on its outer 

 edge below costa and at discal and submedian folds ; a small rufous 

 patch at apex. Hind wing white, the terminal area slight^ tinged 

 with brownish ; the underside with the costal area and terminal 

 area to vein 2 slightly irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Persian Gulf, Bander Abbas (James), 1 5 type. Exp. 

 16 millim. 



5216. Eublemma therma, n. sp. (Plate CLIII. fig. 11.; 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; antennae brown ; tibiae tinged 

 with brown, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen brownish 

 suffused with rufous at base, the ventral surface whitish. Pore 

 wing bright rufous, the outer half of medial area brown irrorated 

 with grey ; a slight whitish subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line whitish, waved ; a black point in middle of 

 cell and two discoidal points ; medial line white, waved ; postmedial 

 line white, excurved below costa and at middle, angled inwards in 

 discal fold, incurved below vein 4 and slightly excurved above inner 

 margin, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 very near termen, grey, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, some 

 slight black points on its outer edge ; cilia whitish tinged with 

 rufous. Hind wing grey suffused with brown, the cilia somewhat 

 paler with a faint dark line near base ; the underside whitish 

 suffused and irrorated with brown, a fine dark terminal line. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing ochreous slightly suffused with rufous. 



Ab. 2. Pore wing greyish suffused with fuscous brown. 



Rah. Br. E. Africa, Eb Urru (Betton), 1 J , 2 $ type; Trans- 

 vaal (Pead), 1 $, "White B. (Cooke), 1 $ , Tweefontein (Janse), 

 1 $ , Pretoria (Janse), 2 $ ; Naxal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 d ; 

 Cape Colony, Grahamstown, 1 $ . Exp. 16-18 millim. 



5217. Eublemma respersa. 



Noctua respersa, Hiibn. Beitr. ii. i. p. 14, pi. 2. f. H (1790) ; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 227. 

 Noctua amcena, Hiibn. Enr. Scbmett., Noct. f . 300 (1802) ; Dup. Lep. Fr., 



Suppl. iii. p. 584, pi. 48. f. 6. 

 Anthophila grata, Treit. Eur. Schmett. v. (3) p. 283 (1826). 





