406 NOCTUIDJS. 



brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing with the basal area 

 and costal area to postmedial line whitish tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with brown, the medial area dark brown except towards 

 costa, the terminal area rufous ; an indistinct waved brown 

 antemedial line with some brown before it on costa and brown 

 striga beyond it from costa ; reniform represented by a white patch, 

 rounded below; postmedial line fine, brown, denned on each side 

 by whitish, excurved from costa to vein 0, then oblique ; subter- 

 minal line whitish, slightly curved, bent outwards to costa, a slight 

 whitish mark beyond it in submedian fold ; the terminal area with 

 dark patch at disoal fold with slight pale marks above and below 

 it • a terminal series of slight blackish striae ; cilia dark brown 

 with whitish marks below apex and at middle. Hind wing bright 

 oran°e with some red-brown irroration on basal and costal area, 

 and terminal red-brown band expanding somewhat to costa. 

 Underside of fore wing orange, the inner area whitish, an elliptical 

 brown discoidal spot, the terminal area broadly brown from costa 

 to vein 3 with siight wedge-shaped white marks on termen ; hind 

 wing orange with apical red-brown patch. 



Eab. Madagascar, type t g in Coll. Mabille. Exp. 24 millim. 



5609. Ozarba accincta. (Plate CLX. fig. 22.) 



Metachrostis accincta, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 224 (1898). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; abdomen yellowish 

 irrorated with brown, the basal crest blackish at tip ; pectus and 

 legs whitish irrorated with brown, the fore tibiae and the tarsi 

 black ringed with white. Fore wing with the basal half grey- 

 brown, the terminal half deep rufous ; subbasal line indistinct, 

 double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, waved, with two black points at costa ; medial 

 line dark, straight, a black patch beyond it in submedian interspace 

 extending to postmedial line ; reniform with slight white annulus 

 defined on inner side by a black patch and on outer by black points ; 

 postmedial line double filled in with whitish, oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, then obliquely incurved and defined by yellowish on outer 

 side, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line grey, 

 excurved at middle, incurved at discal and submedian folds and bent 

 outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia grey 

 mixed with fuscous. Hind wing orange-yellow, the basal area 

 suffused with red-brown, the terminal area with fuscous except at 

 tornus ; cilia brown with whitish line at base and whitish tips ; 

 the underside yellow, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a dark 

 discoidal point and curved postmedial line, the apical area suffused 

 with fuscous with some white subterminal points, then a slight 

 subterminal line. 



Eab. Transvaal, Bultfontein (Junse), 1 g . 1 5 , Eietfontein 

 ( Janse), 3 $ . Exp. 22-24 millim. Type f in Coll. Distant. 



