162 NOCTUIDE. 
thorax red-brown; patagia grey edged with red-brown; pectus 
ochreous ; legs red-brown; abdomen grey-brown, ventrally yellowish 
white. Fore wing pale grey, the costa, inner margin, and terminal 
area below vein 4 red-brown mixed with blackish; subbasal and ante- 
medial red-brown spots on costa defined by blackish strie ; reniform 
red-brown defined by blackish, connected with the costa; traces of 
a sinuous medial line; postmedial line very indistinct, slightly 
bent outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4; an 
indistinct lunulate whitish subterminal line with black streak before 
and beyond it below costa ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules. 
find wing hyaline, the veins, terminal area, and inner margin fuscous 
brown ; cilia white with a dark line through them; the underside 
with dark bar from middle of costa. 
Hab, Germ. E, Arrica, Dar-es-Salaam (Neave), 1 ¢ ; Cape 
Corory, Transkei (Miss F, Barrett), 1 3 ; Mapaeascar, Nossi Bei. 
Hep. 40 millim, 
6389. Stictoptera macromma. 
Stictoptera macromma, Snell, Tijd. y. Ent. xxiii. p. 87, pl. 6. f. 8 (1880). 
¢. Head and thorax rnfous; palpi white in front; tibie and 
tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey tinged with 
rufous, the crest on 3rd segment blackish, the ventral surface white. 
Fore wing chocolate red-brown to middle of costa and to tornus, 
the rest of wing dark purple-brown irrorated with white; 
subbasal line represented by double dark stric filled in with white 
from costa; antemedial line with white point at costa, then very 
indistinct, dark, angled inwards at vein 1; claviform represented 
by a minute dark streak at its extremity ; orbicular with incomplete 
white annulus defined by blackish, elongate elliptical; reniform 
defined by blackish, with white bar before it, its annulus broken up 
into white points, three short white streaks beyond it; medial line 
very indistinct, oblique to subcostal nervure, then erect and almost 
straight; postmedial line double filled in with white, broken up 
into spots and bars, bent outwards below costa, then somewhat 
dentate, incurved below vein 4, and almost obsolete towards inner 
margin; some ochreous white points on costa towards apex; 
subterminal line represented by a series of white lunules, double 
below vein 7 ; a series of white bars just before termen; cilia with 
a series of white spots. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and terminal 
area fuscous brown; cilia white with a dark line through them 
from apex to vein 2; the underside with slight dark discoidal spot. 
The eyes are very large and the frons extremely narrow above in 
male, Snellen’s figure has the white markings of fore wing much 
less prominent. 
Hab, Cevesrs; Br. N. Guryea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt),1¢. Exp. 
46 millim. 
