324 NOCTUIDA. 
2. Fore wing rather paler; hind wing with indistinct minutely 
waved postmedial and subterminal lines defined on outer side by 
whitish, ; 
Hab. Gotv Coasr, Obuas 
si (Bergman), 12, Kumasi (Whiteside), 
1 g : Congo (Marsden), 1 3 t 
ype. Ewp. ¢ 32-36, 2 38 millim. 
Genus TRIORBIS. 
Type. 
Triorbis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 866 (1894) 
Peas cike ee ec ee annulata. 
Proboscis aborted, small; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to above 
vertex of head and rather slenderly scaled, the 3rd long and acuminate ; frons 
with vertical ridge clothed with hair; eyes large, round; antenne of male 
laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the 
pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibiz and Ist joint of hind tarsi 
above of male fringed with long hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. 
Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 
veins 8 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anas- 
tomosing with 8 to forma long areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 
from before angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from 
upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 
A. Fore wing with metallic golden fascia below the cell ......... aureovitta. 
B. Fore wing without metallie golden fascia below the cell ... annulata, 
6629. Triorbis aureovitta. 
Triorhis aureovitta, Himpsn. J. Bomb. Soc. Nat. Hist. xiv. p. 209, pl. B. f.16 
(1902). 
3d. Head and thorax bright red-brown mixed with some 
ochreous; palpi darker at sides; abdomen pale brown, the crests 
ochreous and brown, the anal tuft pinkish, the ventral surface 
yellowish white. Fore wing bright red-brown suffused with purp- 
lish pink and with ochreous in parts; a metallic golden fascia from 
base of costa below the cell to vein 2; antemedial line brown 
slightly defined on inner side by whitish, strongly angled outwards 
below costa, bent inwards in cell, angled outwards below the cell 
to postmedial line, then very oblique and sinuous to above inner 
margin where it is bent outwards to the postmedial line at vein 1 ; 
orbieular and reniform with tufts of brown scales in centres and 
whitish annuli defined by brown, small, round, the latter with its 
outer edge open and confluent with a tooth from postmedial line, 
which is brown defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards 
below costa, strongly dentate outwards at vein 6 and inwards at 
discal fold to the reniform and at submedian fold to the antemedial 
line, strongly angled inwards at vein 1, and outwards above inner 
margin, then bent inwards to inner margin before middle; the 
postmedial area with some dark streaks from below costa to discal 
fold; subterminal lire ochreous white, bent outwards below costa, 
slightly execurved at middle, angled inwards at submedian fold to 
the postmedial line ; a slightly sinuous dark line defined on inner 
