170 NOCICID.E. 



5256. Eublemma ragusana. 



Anthophila ragusana. Fit. Neue Beitr. v. p. 92, pi. 437. f. 1 (1844); Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. '227. 

 Anthophila virginea, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 248 (1852); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 



li. p. 339. 

 Anthophila cinerina, Ghil. Mem. R. Accad. d. Sei. di Torino (2) xiv. 



p. 214 (1854) : Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 227. 

 lhalpochares psilogramma, Led. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1855, p. 207, 



pi. 2. f. 14. 

 Hypena quinqvelinecdis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1S77, p. 612. 

 Thalpochares dividens, Lucas, Pr. R. Soc. Queensl. viii. p. 87 (1892). 

 Eublemma polygramma, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 339 (nee Dup.). 



Head and tcgulae pale rufous ; thorax and abdomen white tinged 

 with grey. Fore wing white suffused and irrorated with grey- 

 brown, the costal area rather whiter; an indistinct very oblique 

 brown line from subcostal nervure towards end of cell to median 

 ncrvure where it is bent ontwards, then very oblique to inner 

 margin near base : two postraedial lines bent outwards to below 

 apex, then very oblique to inner margin at and beyond middle, the 

 inner defined by white on outer side, the outer on both sides ; a sub- 

 terminal series of minute black points with a fine oblique white 

 line on the inner side from below apex to inner margin, the two 

 points below costa stronger; a fine brown terminal line; cilia 

 brown with a fine white line at base. Hind wing white faintly 

 tinged with ochreous brown ; traces of a postmedial line and a fine 

 dark terminal line. Underside of both wings with the costal area 

 tinged witli crimson ; hind wing with terminal series of black points. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the basal half whiter, a strong oblique 

 brown shade arising from apex and thence running on inner side 

 of the inner postmedial line to inner margin ; hind wing whiter. — 

 (iold Coast. 



Ab. 2. virginea. Fore wing suffused with pink instead of hroAvn, 

 the lines indistinct, the subtermitial line hardly traceable, a red 

 spot at apex beyond the two black points. — Java. 



Hab. TJalmatia ; Gold Coast, Accra (Sir G. Carter), 3 <$ ; 

 X. Nigeria, Borgu, Yelwa Lake (Migeod), 1 5 ; Br. E. Africa, 

 Kikuyu (Crawshay), 3 <$ , Nairobi (Ford), 1 J; Uganda, Entebbe 

 (Minchin), 1 $ ; Mashonaland [Bobbie), 1 <S ; Transvaal, Pretoria 

 (Janse), 2 $ ; Natal, Tugela K., Bonds Drift (Reynolds), 1 J ; 

 Seychelles, Coetivy (Fletcher), 1 $ : Syria, Beyrut (Lederer), 1 2 ; 

 Punjab, Dharmstila (Hocking), 1 $; Bhutan (Dudgeon), 1 § ; 

 Bengal, 2 J , 2 2; Madras, Cuddapah (Campbell), 1 §; Burma, 

 Rangoon (Noble), 1 d ; Andamans (Rogers), 4 rj 1 , 4 $, type quint* 

 quelinealis ; Singapore, 1 J ; Java (Horsfield), 1 2 type virginea; 

 New Gdinea (Mathew), 1 J; Queensland, Kockhampton, 1 <$ , 

 Brisbane (Turner), 2 J. Exp. 18-22 millim. 



