170 NOCTTTIDJE. 



Ab. 3. Thorax, abdomen, and wings purplish grey without any 

 red tinge. 



Hob. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 £ ! Bengal, Cal- 

 cutta, 1 c? type angulifera ; Bombay, Kanara, Karwar (T. 11. Bell), 

 2 J, 1 2; Madras, Mlgiris, 1 rf , 1 2 '■> Ceylon (Lindesay), 2 d , 

 Puttalam (Pole), 1 5; Borneo, Sarawak, type t in Mus. Oxon. ; 

 Philippines, Manilla (Barnes), 1 <$ ; Celebes ; Queensland, 

 Tovvnsville (Dodd), 2 rf, Brisbane (Turner, Arnold), 2 J , 1 $ . 

 £ty. 18-28 millim. 



Larva. Ochreous brown ; 1st two pairs of prolegs absent ; 

 pupates in a dark brown cocoon. 



524G. Eublemma aurantiaca, n. sp. (Plate CLIII. fig. 26.) 



J . Head and tegulse rufous ; thorax and abdomen ochreous 

 white suffused with orange-red, the last with pale lines on terminal 

 segments ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish ; tarsi 

 rufous with pale rings. Fore wing orange-red ; minute subbasal 

 black points on costa and in cell ; antemedial line with oblique 

 black striga from costa with a point below it, a point in cell 

 nearer the base and an oblique rufous line from cell to inner 

 margin ; black points in middle of cell and on discocellulars ; 

 medial line red-brown with a black point on costa, very 

 aoutely angled outwards below costa to the oostmedial line, 

 then very oblique ; postmedial lino angled outwards below 

 costa where it is met bjr a slight oblique dark streak from apex, 

 then represented by a series of blackish points on slight whitish 

 marks on the veins, some white points beyond it on costa ; a 

 Bubterminal series of black points, slightly defined on inner side 

 by white towards costa ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia deep 

 rufous except at base. Hind wing orange-red ; a rufous medial 

 line not extending to costa ; an indistinct punctiform rufous 

 postmedial line and a subterminal series of slight black points ; a 

 tine rufous terminal line ; cilia deep rufous except at tips ; the 

 underside ochreous white tinged with rufous, a minute black 

 discoidal point, a postmedial series of miuute black points and 

 a terminal series from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Kumasi ( Whiteside), 1 d type. Exp. IS millim. 



5247. Eublemma crassiuscula. 



Therme&ia crassiuscula, Wlk. Journ. Linu. Soc , Zool. vii. p. 186 (1864). 

 MestMa duplexa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 611, pi. 60. f. 5; Hinpsn. 

 Moths hid. ii. p. 343. 



Head and tegula? creamy white, the palpi and antennas 

 brownish ; thorax and base of abdomen orange-red, the terminal 

 part of abdomen red-brown with pale segmental lines j pectus, 

 legs, and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous white irrorated with 

 brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white. Fore wing orange 

 irrorated with red, the terminal area suffused with red-brown, the 



