630 NOCTUIDE. 
7071. Negeta purpurascens, n. sp. (Plate CXC. fig. 31.) 
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey suffused with brown, the 
peetus and ventral surface of abdomen whiter. Fore wing white, 
the basal half tinged with brown and the costal area suffused with 
red-brown; an oblique black striga from middle of costa; two 
black discoidal points; an olive patch on costa above end of cell, an 
oblique band from discal fold in end of cell to inner margin, and 
some suffusion beyond the cell ; postmedial line slight, black, faintly 
detined on outer side by whitish, excurved below costa, then oblique 
and minutely dentate to vein 4, then incurved; the terminal area 
irrorated and suffused with red-brown; some oblique white stric 
from costa ; subterminal line black faintly defined on inner side by 
whitish, formed of minute dentate marks to vein 4, then incuryed, 
chocolate-brown patches beyond it below vein 7, at middle and 
above inner margin; a fine red-brown terminal line defined on 
inner side by white. Hind wing semihyaline greyish suffused with 
brown; cilia whitish at tips; the underside whitish, the terminal 
area suffused with brown from costa to vein 2. 
Hab. Gotp Coast, Kumasi (Whiteside), 2 ¢ type. Eup. 20 
millim. 
7072. Negeta chlorocrota. (Plate CXC. fig. 32.) 
Phesena chlorocrota, Hmpsn. J. Bomb, Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. 677 (1907). 
Head and thorax white tinged with olive-yellow and irrorated 
with a few black scales; palpi with blackish mixed; frons with 
blackish bar above; pectus and legs brownish white, the fore legs 
blackish in front; abdomen brownish white. Fore wing creamy 
white very slightly irrorated with black; a black streak from base 
of costa through the cell to the postmedial line, with some purplish 
grey suffusion below it, and also above it beyond the cell, bisecting 
the reniform which is elliptical and incompletely defined by black ; 
an olive-green fascia in upper part of cell before the reniform and 
another from beyond the reniform to just beyond the postmedial 
line; a black antemedial point on vein | and traces of an oblique 
olive-green and greyish medial line from cell to inner margin; post- 
medial line shght, double, with minute black streaks and white 
atrize on the inner line and some olive-green suffusion before it from 
vein + to inner margin, excurved from costa to vein 4, then very 
oblique to submedian fold and erect to inner margin, some purplish 
grey suffusion beyond it except towards costa; subterminal line 
olive-green below costa, then black, slightly incurved at discal fold 
and angled outwards at vein 4, oblique to vein 2, and again slightly 
excurved ; the terminal area white irrorated with brown and with 
some olive-green suffusion at apex; a terminal series of black striae ; 
cilia with a slight dark line at middle and series of black points 
at tips. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and terminal area 
suffused with brown, more uniformly suffused in female; a series 
of black strito just before termen ; cilia ochreous white ; the under- 
