102 NOCTUIDE. 
6319. Anigre#a purpurascens, n. sp. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 20.) 
2. Head and thorax deep purple-red ; palpi irrorated with white 
and with white tips; pectus white; legs fuscous and white with 
some purplish red on fore tibize ; abdomen reddish ochreous, the Ist 
two segments purplish red and grey. Fore wing deep purple-red 
slightly tinged with grey and irrorated with white except on basal 
area; antemedial line strongly excurved, ochreous white, defined 
on outer side by black-brown from cell to inner margin; the inner 
half of medial area suffused with ochreous grey; reniform defined 
by ochreous grey, somewhat angled inwards on median nervure, an 
irregular fuscous black streak from it to subterminal line where it 
forks; postmedial line white and very strongly bent outwards 
below costa, then ochreous defined on each side by black-brown, 
oblique and slightly sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa 
and a wedge-shaped crimson-red mark below vein 2; subterminal 
line very ill-defined, ochreous, diffused to termen between veins 6 
and 4, a small black spot on it below vein 7; a series of black strize 
just before termen forming a small spot below vein 3; cilia crimson 
mixed with fuscous.. Hind wing fuscous with a greyish tinge, a 
slight red streak in terminal part of submedian fold; cilia chequered 
creamy-white and fuscous; the underside ochreous white suffused 
with fuscous, a fuscous discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 
Hab, Gorn Coast, Kumasi ( Whiteside), 19 type. Hap. 23 millim. 
Genus ANUGA. 
Type. 
Anuga, Guen. Noct. ti. p 807 (1852) ...00ce2.cusescescoes osvae-nen constricta. 
Piada, Wika xv. WA) (1858) s.cocserssace cece eee ceee eee eeeee cree multiplicans. 
Caecila, Wik. xv: L824 (1858) tee actesce cote te eee eee eee constricta. 
Phumana, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool, vii. p. 164 (1864) ... 
constricta. 
Spersara, Wik. Journ, Linn, Soc., Zool. vii. p. 174 (1864) ... 
constricta. 
Proboseis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 21d joint typically reaching 
to middle of frons and very broadly scaled, the 3rd short with tuft of scales in 
front ; frons smooth with ridges of scales at middle and above; eyes large, 
round ; antennz of male typically longer than fore wing and with very short 
branches on outer side only from some way beyond base to near middle; 
thorax elothed chiefly with scales and without distinct crests; tibie fringed 
with long hair; abdomen long with slight dorsal ridges of scales on two basal 
segments but without crests, the anal segment long and tubular. Fore wing 
long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved, crenalate ; 
veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anasto- 
mosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 
from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper 
angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Sect. I. Antenne of male of normal length, with very long drooping branches 
to beyond middle, the apical part ciliated; a large tuft of scales from 
basal joint. 
A, Antenn of female bipectinate with moderate branches to middle; palpi 
with the 2nd joint upturned and straight to above vertex of head and 
with two ridges of hair in front, the drd joint long. 
