390 



NOCTUIDJE. 





blackish ringed "with white. Fore wing purplish red-brown with 

 a slight greyish tinge ; a faint pale curved subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line whitish defined on outer side 

 by dark brown and with a patch of black-brown suffusion beyond 

 it at middle, oblique, sinuous, with a black spot before it above 

 inner margin ; orbicular absent ; reniform with whitish anmilus 

 defined by black except at middle of outer side, small; an oblique 

 dark bar from middle of costa to reniform and slight incurved line 

 from lower extremity of reniform to inner margin ; postuiedial line 

 fine, double filled in with white, excurved below costa and at 

 middle and slightly above inner margin, some white points beyond 

 it on costa; subterminal line defined on inner side by a black- 

 brown band with some whitish scales on its inner edge which is 

 incurved below costa, angled inwards at discal fold to near post- 

 medial line and narrowing to inner margin, its outer edge excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle and incurved below vein 3. Hind 

 wing white tinged with brown ; the underside white irrorated with 

 fuscous brown, a blackish discoidal lunule and diffused sinuous 

 subterminal band almost obsolete on inner half. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the black spot before antemedial line 

 obsolete. 



Hah. Abyssinia, Atbara (Gerrard), 1 $ ; Br. E. Africa, Taveta 

 (Sogers), 3 2 ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 2 <$ , 3$ type ; 

 Bechtjanalaxd, N'Gami (Lugard), 1 $ . Exp. 28 millim. 



5592. Cretonia platyphaeella. 



Cretonia platyphceclla, Wlk. xxxv. 1736 (186(i). 



J . Head and thorax fuscous brown with a greyish tinge, the 

 patagia faintly tinged Avith rufous; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 fuscous brown tinged with grey, the. tarsi ringed with white. Fore 



Fig. 1_'4.— < platyphceella, <5. *• 



wing with the basal area pale reddish brown tinged with greyish 

 fuscous, the rest of wing dark greyish fuscous with a cupreous 

 gloss; a faint pale subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; 

 antemedial line whitish defined on outer side by black and with 

 some black-brown suffusion beyond it at middle, slightly angled 

 outwards at subcostal nervure, then incurved and excurved above 

 inner margin ; rfmiform small figure-of-eight shaped, interrupted 

 at middle, its upper and lower parts with whitish annuli ; a faint 





