320 koctuidj:. 



8132. Cortyta rosacea. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 23.) 



Tcriq/ma rosacea, Eebel, Denks. Math.-Nat. Akad. Wissensch. Ixxi p 00 

 (1907). ^ 



6 ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen nifou.si mixed with some grey 

 and dark brown ; antennae blackish ; tarsi bLackisli with pale rings'; 

 abdomen ochreous white below. Fore wing rufous irrorated with 

 greyish and dark brown ; subbasal and antemedial lines indistinct, 

 double, waved, with blackish sjwts at costa, tlie former from co.sta 

 to vein 1, the latter erect ; orbicular a blackish point, the reniform 

 a small elliptical blackish spot with pale mark beyond it ; medial 

 line double, waved, erect ; postmedial line double, minutely waved, 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, reddish, minutely 

 waved, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a blackish 

 patch at apex ; a terminal series of minute black points ; cilia pale 

 nifous and grey-brown, with pale Avaved lines at base and middle. 

 Hind wing pale rufous irrorated with grey and fuscous; double 

 minutely waved medial and postmedial "lines ; the terminal area 

 thickly iiTorated with fuscous ; a tenninal series of black points ; 

 cilia pale rufous at base, Avhitish at tips, with a waved brown line 

 at middle ; the underside yellowish white, the terminal area suffused 

 Avith fuscous from apex to submedian fold. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with distinct black spot at apex. 



Hah. Sudan, Port Sudan {Mrs. Waterjield), 1 c? , 1 $ ; 

 SoKOTEA, Makalla, type f 6 in Mus. Vienna. Hxp. 36 millim. 



Probably a rufous aberration of C. vetusta, 



8133. Cortyta polycyma. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 24.) 



Hypoglaucitis polyajma, Hmpsn. Tr. Zool. Soc. xix. p. Ill, pi. iv. f. 18 

 (1909). ^ 



5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous broAvn ; antennje 

 ringed with black ; palpi white, black towards tips ; fore and mid 

 tibiae with some blackish ; tarsi black ringed with Avhite ; abdomen 

 ochreous white, dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing o-rey 

 suffused with fuscous brown ; a sinuous black subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, angled outwai-ds 

 below costii, then sinuous ; medial area with two indistinct double 

 slightly sinuous lines bent inwards to costa ; renifonn defined bv 

 bLickish, narrow and elliptical, a slight blackish line from it to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line black, slightly excurved below costa 

 and incurved at discal fold, incm-ved and somewhat dentate below 

 vein 4, an indistinct dentate line beyond it followed by some white 

 suffusion below the costa ; two white points on postniedial i)art of 

 costa ; sul)terminal line whitish, waved, with some blackish suffusion 

 before it on costal area ; a tine dentate black line just before termen ; 

 a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish tinged and 

 irrorated with brown, the tenninal area suffused with brown. Under- 

 side brownish white; both wings with the terminal area suffused 

 with brown except towards tornus. 



