438 >OCTUID-E. 



fore and iii'ul tibiic luoderalcly frii'gecl uitli liair, the liiiid tibi:c smoothly 

 FCiilcd ; iihdoinen wilh doi-siil crests on three hjisal segments, the crest on 1st 

 segment large. Fore wing ratlier long and narrow, the costa arched towards 

 apex which is somewhat produced, the termen evenly curved and slightly 

 erenulate, the torrus with scale-tootii ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 r> from up])er angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole : 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 

 3,4 from angle ; f) fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the pnstmedial line strongly angled 



inwards in siibmedian fold carnptogammtt. 



U. Fore wing with the postniedial line not angled inwards 



in submedian fold adrasta. 



8260. Plusiopalpa camptogamina. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 2G.) 

 ToJychrysia camptogamina, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 430 (1910). 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed witl; some greyish ; tarsi 

 ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey suffused with brown, whitisli 

 at base. Fore wing grey suffvised with red-brown and with shght 

 dark irroration ; traces of a silvery streak in base of submedian 

 fold ; subbasal line represented by a curved silvery striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line represented by an oblique silvery striga 

 from costa and inwardly oblitjue sinuous silvery line from cell to 

 inner margin ; an oblique silvery Y-shaped stigma below end of 

 cell, filled in with greyish and with downcurved silvery streak 

 above it in cell, the inner arm of the stigma siiuious, some golden 

 cupreous suffusion beyond and below it ; postniedial line indistinct, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa and incurved below the tail 

 of the Y-shaped stigma, where there is some silvery-white on it, 

 some greyish points beyond it on costa and an oblique shade from 

 below costa to its outer edge at vein 4 ; subtcrminal line greyish 

 defined on iimer side by dark brown from vein 7 to 2 and a wedge- 

 shajied ]Kitch in submedian fold, excurved to termen at vein (5, then 

 incurved, a dark patch beyond it at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black stria? defined on inner side by a greyish line. Hind wing 

 brown Avith a slight cupreous tinge ; cilia greyish with a dark line 

 at base ; the underside grey-brown with diffused grey-Avhite medial 

 shade. 



Ilab. Br. E. Afeica, Kikuyu, Koromo {Cratvshay), 1 $ type. 

 Kxp. 31' millim. 



82(51. Phisiopalpa adrasta. 



rhma adrasta, Feld. Eeis. Nov. i)l. 110. f 35 (1874). 



Tluaiopalpa dichora, HoU. Psyche, vii. p. 9 (Jan. 18V)4). 



Plusia crassipalptis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 57G (March 1894). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed Avith ])inkish grey; abdomen 

 ochreous Avhite, the crests red-bjown. Fore wing red-brown mixed 

 with pinkish grey, striated \vith broAvn and largely suffused with 



