DROBETA. 



D. Fore wing with the postmedial bhu-k patcli not extending 



below vein 4 



C. Fore wing without postmedial black patcli. 



a. Fore wing with dark centre to reniform p< 



b. Fore wing wit liout dark centre to reniform / 



5510. Drobeta exscendens. 

 Drobeta exscendens, Wlk. xv. 1755 (1858). 



$. Head and thorax ochreous tinned with rufous ; tarsi brown 

 with pale rings; abdomen grey-brown, the crests yellowish, the 

 v< ill ral surface whitish. Fore wing whitish suffused with rufous 

 and yellowish ; subbasal line represented by a slight blackish striga 

 from costa; antemedia] liue slight, blackish defined on inner 

 by whitish, irregularly sinuous, erect; orbicular with whitish 

 annulus, inwardly oblique elliptical, a large rounded black patch 

 beyond it extending from just below costa to just above inner 

 margin and to postmedial line, which is double at cos' a. slightly 

 bent outwards below r costa, then defined by whitish on outer side 



■ ■ 

 Fig. 99. — Drobeta exscendens, $. \. 



and minutely dentate, excurved to vein 1, then incurved ; a faint 

 pale waved sub terminal line from costa to vein 4 defined on inner 

 side by dentate black marks ; a terminal series of black lun 

 exctpt at apex, defined on inner side by whitish ; cilia chequi 

 rufous and black. Hind wing dark brown, pale at has cilia 



yellow ; the underside whitish tinged with yellow, a slight d 

 lunule and indistinct curved crenulate postmedial line. 

 Hab. Venezuela, 1 $ type. Exp. 34 millim. 



5511. Drobeta melagonia, n. sp. (Plate CLVI] I. fig. 27.) 



$ . Head and thorax brownish ochreous, the tegulffl and pat 

 with some brown ; fore and mid tarsi with blackish bands; al 

 null brownish ochreous. Fore wing whitish suffused with red- 

 brown and purplish grey and slightly irrorated with black, the 

 outer half of medial area deep black except towards inner margiu ; 

 traces of a blackish subbasal line from costa to Bubmedian I 

 antemedia! line black, slightly angled inwards at median oervure, 

 then oblique sinuous; orbicular and reniform with whitish an nuli, 

 small, the former oblique wedge-shaped, the latter conjoii 

 small oblique whitish spot below middle of cell; medial line 



