644 NOCTUIDE. 
vein 1, then bent inwards to base; a minute brown spot at upper 
angle of cell; postmedial line pale fuscous, oblique from costa to 
vein 6 where it is met by an oblique streak from apex, then 
oblique to middle of inner margin and defined on outer side by 
white; traces of a brownish subterminal line, excurved below 
vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal 
area more strongly tinged with ochreous. 
Hub. Ruopesta, Zambesi, Victoria Falls (Longstaff’), 1 9 type. 
Exp. 26 millim. 
7095, Arcyophora longivalvis. 
Arcyophora longivalvis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 379, pl. 12. f. 9 (1852), 
Chloephora lohidorsis, Zell, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1863, p. 139, pl. ii. f.2; Kirby, 
Cat. Lep. Het. p. 280. 
Calpe apicalis, Wik. xxxiii. 848 (1865), 
¢. Head and thorax bright rufous sometimes tinged with grey- 
brown; palpi white tinged with brown; pectus and legs white, 
the fore and mid tibiz and the tarsi tinged with brown ; abdomen 
white tinged with ochreous, the basal crest rufous. Fore wing 
bright rufous sometimes tinged with yellowish or brown and with 
numerous more or less prominent pale strie, the median nervure 
and yein 1 to postmedial line with pale streaks; antemedial line 
pale yellowish slightly defined on outer side by brown, oblique 
Fig. 262.—Arcyophora longivalvis, 3. }. 
and slightly curved from middle of costa to inner margin before 
middle; postmedial line pale yellowish slightly defined on inner 
side by brown, oblique from costa to below vein 7 where it is 
acutely angled, then inwardly oblique; an oblique black streak 
from apex and sometimes some points beyond the postmedial line 
below veins 5,4, 3, 2. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins of 
terminal half and the termen ochreous, 
2. Fore wing usually much more ochreous and with the strie 
dark, the lines more prominently defined by dark brown. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with small dark spots with white centres 
beyond the postmedial line below veins 5, 4. 
Hab, Breowvanarann, L, N’Gami (Lugard), 2 3,4 9; Rwoprsta, 
Bulawayo (Marshall), 1 ¢; Transvaat, Warmbad (Janse), 1 2; 
Narat, Durban (Gueinzius, Leigh), 1g, 2 2 type apicalis; ADEN 
(Mathew), 1 2. Exp, 34-48 millim. Zeller’s type is said to be 
from Venezuela, 
