624 NOCTUID_E. 
whitish. Fore wing pale rufous ; an oblique, straight, dark brown 
antemedial line ; two black discoidal points with a few white scales 
on them; postmedial line slightly excurved from costa to vein 6, 
then oblique; a slight pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing pe 
with a silky loss ; the underside whitish slightly iprarated with 
brown. , 
Hab. Nicerta, Old Calabar (Crompton), 1 $ type. Exp. 28 
millim. 
Genus NEGETA. 
Type. 
Negeta, Wik. xxiv. W105 (Heb? 1862) s.. 52... actes. seseseneeeeeere eee contrariata. 
Urbona, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. vi. p. 183 (Nov. 
1&6: 2) Sait daivte boas whew sled astedeek isl avaveseenaciee sheets aenoeee ence ese sublineata. 
Nagasena, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 151 (1882)............ eaeatiosscenee: sublineata. 
Periplusia, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 30 (1894) Bone Wort Oeeeocnevonato- nubilicosta. 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to 
vertex of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth with ridge of 
scales above; eyes large, round; antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibize moderately fringed with 
hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal segments, long in male. 
Fore wing! with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 
crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle; 
6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to furm the areole; 
11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4,5 from angle ; 
6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near pase only. 
A. Fore wing with the postmedial line absent, leaden grey 
with: tiesbase:yellOw) Wo ...s:c-scc-cs acres seceeseen pecansnosesonae molybdota. 
B. Fore wing with the postmedial line present. 
a, Fore wing with the postmedial line arising from the 
costa well before apex. 
«1, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines oblique 
and almost meeting at inner margin ...........-.-......- approximans. 
_ Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards or 
exeurved below costa, 
a, Fore wing with wedge-shaped chocolate-brown 
patch from middle of costa and semicircular patch 
onxcosta fowards!apex os. sscveccusenchee sn eee cee stalactitis. 
i°. Fore wing without chocolate-brown patches on costa. 
a*, Fore wing grey-brown or reddish brown. 
a*, Fore wing with two small white discoidal spots. cinerascens. 
‘4, Fore wing without white discoidal spots. 
@, Fore wing with diffused dark fascia below 
COstal Alea... siacc5 ceascaeerccess ccc ten eee eee nubilicosta. 
}°, Fore wing without dark fascia below costal 
area, 
a, Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial 
lines not closely approximated ©............ pheopepla, 
b°. Pore wing with the ante- and postmedial 
lines closely approximated except below 
costa, the area between them pale......... ochreoplaga. 
v8, Fore wing with the ground-colour white or 
whitish. 
a’. Fore wing without dark streak through the ceil. 
a. Kore wing without olive-vellow or green on 
medial aren, « evt-scssosctoeesee ence necees . mesoleuca, 
45, Fore wing with olive-yellow medial line. 
a®, Fore wing with the basal inner area white. Zuminosa. 
