74 NOCTUIDAE. 
b'. Fore wing without black spot on outer edge of post- 
medial line in submedian interspace. 
a*. Fore wing with the reniform narrow bar-shaped. cebee. 
b*. Fore wing with the reniform constricted at 
DIGS! shiv wccsacteosh snaceetvesete cea seco eee apicifascia. 
6284. Phlegetonia catephioides. 
Phlegetonia catephioides, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 801 (1852). 
Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous or reddish brown more or less 
tinged with grey ; tegule with black line near base. Fore wing 
fuscous or reddish brown tinged with grey, the inner half greyer 
except at base and tornus; subbasal line double, blackish, minutely 
waved ; antemedial line treble, excurved from below costa to vein 1 ; 
a whitish streak in terminal part of cell traversing the reniform, 
which is slightly defined by grey and with brown spots on its upper 
and lower parts; a faint oblique sinuous medial line from beyond 
lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line treble, oblique 
Fig. 29.—Phlegetonia catephioides, §. 3, 
and slightly sinuous from costa to vein 6, incurved at discal fold and 
below vein 4, an indistinct blackish line beyond it, angled at vein 4, 
then incurved ; a blue-grey apical patch and a erenulate black line 
just before termen. Hind wing pure white, the terminal area brown 
tinged with grey at termen and on cilia; a slight crenulate black 
line just before termen ; the underside irrorated with brown except 
on inner area, two brown discoidal striz and traces of a medial line 
and double postmedial line. 
Hab, Transvaat, White R. (Cooke), 1 9 ; Narat, Durban 
(Bowker, Bell-Marley), 3 3,1 9. Hep. 38-40 millim. 
6285. Phlegetonia porphyriota, n. sp. (Plate CLXXV. fig. 28.) 
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with some reddish 
brown ; palpi fuscous at base. Fore wing purplish grey tinged in 
parts with fuscous and irrorated with blackish ; antemedial line 
whitish, erect, sinuous, with a blackish shade before it above and 
below vein 1; a faint pinkish spot in middle of cel] and pinkish 
discvidal bar with black points on it at upper and lower angles of 
