Sy ie NOCTUID”, 
to vein +; some whitish points on costa towards apex; a sub- 
terminal series of small obscure fuscous spots except towards costa, 
excuryed below vein 4 to near termen; some brown suffusion on 
terminal area below apex with slightly darker streaks on the veins. 
Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia ochreous white. Underside of 
fore wing fuscous brown, the inner area and hind wing whitish. 
Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and abdominal crests sap-green ; fore wing 
with the basal and apical areas sap-green, the medial area and 
inner half of terminal area pale rufous. 
Hab, Nieerta, Old Calabar (Crompton), 1 Q type, Lesha 
(Humphrey), 1 9. Hep. 30 millim, 
6977. Maurilia heterochroa. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 17.) 
Maurilia heterochroa, Hwpsn. A. M.N. H. (7) xvi. p. €00 (1905). 
Head, thorax, and fore wing varying from bright rufous to 
greyish rufous or greyish fuscous; palpi irrorated with white; 
frons with white patch; peetus and base of legs white; tibie and 
tarsi white mixed with rufous; abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft 
rufous, the ventral surface white tinged with rufous towards ex- 
tremity. Fore wing with double waved, very oblique antemedial 
line; black points in end of cell and on discocellulars; a double, 
somewhat waved postmedial line, oblique from costa to vein 6, 
slightly angled inwards in discal fold, then excurved, and incurved 
in submedian interspace ; a slight somewhat sinuous fuscous shade 
from apex to antemedial line below the cell; a subterminal 
punctiform black line slightly excuryed at vein 7 and incurved at 
discal fold; the termen rather darker from just below apex to 
vein 2. Hind wing fuscous brown to deep fuscous ; cilia greyish 
at tips. Underside of fore wing fuscous black, the costal and 
terminal areas red with some whitish on costa towards apex, 
inner area whitish; hind wing red, the basal and inner arcas 
grey-white. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the inner area from near base to sub- 
terminal line and extending to upper angle of cell suffused with 
dark red-brown. 
Ab, 2. Fore wing with this area deep ferruginous red with a 
large darker ferruginous somewhat triangular patch on it beyond 
the cell. 
Ab. 3. Fore wing greyish fuscous. 
Ab, 4. Fore wing greyish fuscous with a similar dark fuscous 
patch on inner area. 
Ab. 5, Fore wing greyish fuscous with diffused black wedge- 
shaped patch beyond the cell. 
Hab. S. Niapria, Lagos (Dudgeon), 1 3, Old Calabar (Lutherford, 
Crompton), 4 3, 2 2 type, Sapele (Sampson), 2 3. Hap. 36- 
40 millim, 
