302 NOCTUID.E. 



Genus NEOCHROSTIS. Type 



Neochrostis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 406 (1902) diplogramma. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacbing about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate : frons with pointed 

 beak-shaped prominence witb somewhat trifid process below it and tbe frons 

 produced to points at sides ; eves large, round ; antennae of male somewhat 

 laminate and minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales 

 and without crests ; tibise smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base 

 only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell: 6 from below upper angle; 7 from 

 angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5595. Neochrostis diplogramma. 



Neochrostis diplogramma, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 407 (1902). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi whitish, dark at tips ; 

 the tegulte with slight dark medial line; pectus and legs pale 

 rufous, tbe tarsi blackish with pale rings; abdomen pale rufous 

 tinged with brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing rufous 

 suffused witb fuscous ; subbasal line represented by slight double 

 dark points below costa and cell; antemedial line double, black, 





Fig. 125. — Neochrostis diplogramma, J. \. 



evenly curved ; orbicular small, round, defined by black and with 



blackish point in centre; reniform rufous defined by black and 



-with some brown in centre, narrow, strongly angled inwards on 



median nervure to a spot obliquely placed below orbicular; a black 



medial shade, oblique to reniform and incurved below the cell; 



postmedial lino double, black, dilated at costa, excurved below 



costa, slightly angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below 



vein 4, some yellow points beyond it on costa and a black shade 



from below costa to vein 4, angled outwards at veins 6 and 4; 



subterminal line yellowish, very slightly excurved below vein 7 



and at middle ; a slightly waved black terminal line. Hind wing 



orange with sligbtly brown streaks in cell, on vein 1, and above 



inner margin ; a small discoidal spot and sinuous subterminal line 



with dark streaks beyond it on the veins ; a black terminal line; 



cilia brown with a slight yellow line at base. Underside of fore 



wing orange tinged witb brown, a dark discoidal spot and curved 



