§22 NOCTUID. 
inner area whitish; hind wing flesh-colour, the terminal area 
purple-red. 
Q. Hind wing with the basal half white. 
Ab. 1. ¢. Hind wing white, the termen and the inner area 
slightly suffused with purple-red; underside of fore wing white 
with red suffusion below costa and on apical half of terminal area. 
Ab. 2. g. Fore wing with the medial area purplish grey 
suffused and irrorated with purplish fuscous. 
Ab. 3. 2. Fore wing with the medial area whiter with less 
purplish fuscous suffusion. 
Hab. Gampta (Moloney) in Coll. Druce; Gotp Coast, N. Ashanti 
(Dudgeon), 1 2; 8. Nieerta, Lagos (Boag), 1 $, Olokemeji 
(Dudgeon), 1 3 type; Navan, Durban (Quekett), 1 Q. Exp. 
30-32 millim. 
* 6894. Lophocrama auritincta. 
Carea auritincta, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 597 (1908). 
36. Head and thorax rufous with a silky gloss; palpi in front, 
pectus and legs white ; fore and hind tibie partly rufous, the tarsi 
rufous ringed with white; abdomen pale rufous, the ventral surface 
white. Fore wing rufous with a greenish golden gloss especiaily 
Fig. 199.—Lophocrama auritincta, 3. 
Hin 
towards costa; the costa with antemedial and medial black and 
white points, towards apex with dark brown streaks interrupted by 
three white points. Hind wing fiery orange-red; cilia white at 
tips. Underside of fore wing orange-red, the inner area and costal 
area to beyond middle suffused with white ; hind wing white tinged 
with red. 
Hab. Nigerta, Old Calabar (Crompton), 1 ¢ type. Exp. 
26 millim. 
Genus PSEUDELYDNA. five 
Pseudelydna, Umpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 420 (1894) .............e rufoflava. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle 
of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth; eyes large, 
round; antennz of male with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed with hair and 
hair-like seales, the prothorax without crest, tne metathorax with slight crest; 
fore and mid tibize moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests 
on basal segments and clothed with rough hair, in male very long. Fore 
wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen typically evenly curved 
and slightly crenulate; veins 8 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper 
angle; Yfrom 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. 
