312 noctuidj:. 



line double, the inner line black, the outer indistinct, arising below 

 costa and slightly sinuous, angled inwards at discal fold and oblique 

 below vein 4, some fuscous beyond it on costal area and two small 

 spots above inner margin ; subterminal line indistinct, double, 

 sinuous, oblique below vein 4 ; a fine waved black line before 

 termen and fine whit<? line at base of cilia. Hind wing reddish 

 brown slightly iiTorated with black except on terminal area ; an 

 indistinct double slightly siimous antemedial line and three similar 

 lines beyond the cell ; an oblique slightly sinuous treble black sub- 

 terminal line with a red-brown line beyond it ; a fine sinuous black 

 line before termen and white line followed by blackish at base of 

 cilia ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a black diseoidal 

 point, indistinct slightly sinuous antemedial line and three lines 

 beyond the cell, a minutely waved subterminal line and series of 

 black points befoi-e termen. 



Ab. 1. Pale ochreous brown. — N. Nigeria. 



Hah. N. Nigeria, Zungeru (Mac/ie), 1 d" ; Tba>'sta.4X, White 

 E. (Cooke), 1 d type. Arj). 32-38 millira. 



Genus CORTYTA. 



Type. 



Corti//a, Wlk. xii'i. 107(3(1857) canescens. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi witli the 2nd joint upturned, reaching to 

 about vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd porrect, moderate ; frons 

 smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male typically 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the metathorax wiili 

 depressed crest; fore tibire moderately fringed with hair, the mid tibia? of 

 male typically dilated with a groove containing a fringe of scales, the fore and 

 hind tibia; not spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins o 

 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the ceU about half 

 the length of wing; veins 3,4 from angle; 5 fully developed from above 

 angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male with serrations ending in bristles ; mid tibiae without 

 groove and fringe of scales. 



8122. Cortyta remigiana, n. sp. 



6 • Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous tinged with red- 

 brown ; antennae red-broAvn ; palpi red-brown at sides except at 

 tips ; fore and mid legs and the hind tarsi suffused with brown. 

 Fore wing pale ochreous suffused with red-brown and slightly 

 irrorated with dark brown, the terminal area somewhat paler ; a 

 faint brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line slight, brown with small brown spot at costa, then 

 exeurved and waved to just above inner margin, then l)ent upwards 

 to just above vein 1 and down to inner margin at the postmedial 

 line, its sinus below the cell filled in with deep chocolate-brown ; 

 an oblique brown bar from middle of costa followed by a dark spot ; 

 reniform famtly defined by brown except above, expanding below, 



