434 NOCTUIDE. 
6, 5 streaked with blackish to the postmedial line, which is black, 
strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, dentate ; 
subterminal line black-brown defined on outer side by white, 
indistinct on inner half, minutely dentate below costa, incurved and 
strong between vein 8 and discal fold, then dentate, incurved below 
vein 3 and again excurved above inner margin; an oblique black 
fascia from apex to subtermiual line with some white suffasion 
below it and black streaks on veins 7,6; a series of black striz 
defined on inner side by slight white lunules just before termen ; a 
fine black terminal line; cilia brown chequered with white on 
apical half and with fine white line at base. Hind wing white 
tinged with brown, the terminal area broadly fuscous brown ; cilia 
white tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area suffused 
with brown, a small dark discoidal lunule. 
Hab, 8. Nieerta, Lagos, Olokemeji (Dudgeon), 1 3,1 2, Ebute 
Meta (#009) 2 6, 6 9, Old Calabar (Sampson), 1 ¢, Sapele 
(Sampson), 1 3, Oshogbo Care): 1 Q, Ilesha (Humphrey), 
1g. Exp. 32-36 millim, 
6780. Risoba diversipennis. (Plate CLXXXYV. fig. 31.) 
Heliothis diversipennis, W1k. xv. 1750 (1858); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 899. 
Head and thorax white mixed with reddish brown and some 
black; palpi with the Ist joint black above; frons with lateral 
black bars; tegule with brown dorsal patch and brown tips; mid 
tibive streaked with black, the tarsi brown ringed with white; 
abdomen white tinged with brown, the ventral surface irrorated 
with brown. Fore wing violaceous grey suffused with red-brown 
and slightly irrorated with black; a white streak along median 
nervure, diffused above; a white patch from base of cell to inner 
margin before middle slightly irrorated with brown and defined 
on outer side by a slight black line; a brown point in middle of 
cell; reniform reddish brown slightly defined by blackish and with 
blackish point in centre, minute, elliptical ; postmedial line strongly 
angled outwards below costa, then indistinctly double, oblique, 
reduced to points between veins 4 and 1, angled outwards and 
filled in with white above inner margin, some white points with 
minute black streaks between them beyond it on costa; subterminal 
line white slightly defined on inner side by brown, incurved below 
costa, angled outwards below vein, 7 and oblique below vein 4; an 
oblique brown and blackish shade from apex and black streaks on 
veins 7, 6 with white lunulate spots above them; a series of black 
strie defined by a crenulate white line just before termen. Hind 
wing white slightly tinged with brown, the terminal area fuscous 
brown, broad at costa, narrowing to tornus, a brown discoidal spot 
and postmedial points on veins 5 to 2; cilia whitish tinged with 
brown; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 
Hab, Punsas (James), 1 $6, 1 2 type; Burma, Moulmein 
(Clerk), 1 9; Srrairs Serrtements, Perak, Goping (Kiinstler), | 
1 Q, Singapore (Iidley), 6 3,7 2 ; Bornzo, Sarawak (Wallace), . | 
23,1 9. Hep. 32-36 millim. 
