386 noctuid^:. 



yellowish white ; the underside yellowish white, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a small brown discoidal 

 spot. 



2 . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey : abdomen 

 dark brown ; fore wing brown tinged with grey, the terminal half 

 suffused with rufous, the markings indistinct especially the oblique 

 dark band from apex; hind wing strongly suffused with brown, 

 the underside grey irrorated with brown, an indistinct postmeclial 

 line. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett), 2 S type, Zuurberg 

 {Bairstow), 1 $ • E.vp. 20 millim. 



5586. Phyllophila torrefacta. (Plate CIX fig. 9.) 

 Tarache torrefacta, Dist. A. M. 2s T . IL (7) i. p. 223 (1S98). 



Head and thorax red-brown tinged with greyish ; palpi white, 

 brown at tips ; pectus and legs white, the tibiae and tarsi suffused 

 with brown ; abdomen yellowish tinged with rufous, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing yellow suffused with rufous except the 

 basal and costal areas and the medial part of terminal area, the 

 veins and discal fold streaked with rufous; antemedial line rufous, 

 rather irregular and diffused, strongly angled outwards on median 

 nervure and oblique towards costa and inner margin ; orbicular a 

 small brown spot, the reniform a slight discoidal lunule : a tine 

 rufous medial line, oblique from costa to just beyond the cell where 

 it is excurved, then obliquely incurved ; postmedial line rufous, 

 strongly excurved from costa to vein 6, then very oblique and 

 incurved in submedian interspace, met at vein 6 by an oblique 

 diffused rufous fascia from apex ; subterminal line yellow defined 

 on inner side by rufous, minutely dentate, excurved below vein 7, 

 then oblique ; a rufous terminal line ; cilia yellow r with a rufous 

 line through them. Hind wing yellow suffused with rufous, the 

 cilia yellower; the underside yellow slightly irrorated wilh red- 

 brown, a small discoidal spot and traces of a postmedial line 

 excurved beyond the cell. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing darker and more suffused with greyish brown 

 — Br. E. Africa. 



Bab. Br. E. Africa, Eb Urru (Betfon), 3$, Kiliman'jari 

 {Sjostedt), 1 S; Transvaal, Johannesburg {Cooke, Boss), 1 tf , 1 

 Exp. 26 millim. 



•5587. Phyllophila obscura. (Plate CLX. fig. 10.) 

 Metachrosis obscura, Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 32(5 (1894). 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown with slight darl 

 irroration ; tarsi brown with pale rings. Fore wing glossy grey 

 brown with a reddish tinge and dark irroration ; subbasal lin 

 represented by a dark point on ccsta ; antemedial line indistinct 





