ABEOSTOLA. — MOUEALIA. 591 



8443. Abrostola brevipennis. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 32.) 



Xyliim hrevipeyinis, Wlk. xv. 1734 (1858). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous and .some dark 

 brown ; teguloe with black bars at middle ; palpi blackish at sides ; 

 legs with blackish mixed, the tarsi black ringed with whitish ; 

 abdomen ochreous brown, the basal crest bkck. Fore wing red- 

 brown with an ochreous tinge, suffused in parts with fuscous ; 

 antemedial line double, the inner line red-brown with some blackish 

 suffusion before it, the outer fine, black, excurved and slightly 

 waved, some black beyond it in submedian interspace ; orbicular 

 and reniform large, incompletely defined by black and with some 

 raised scales on theu' edges, some fuscous in centre of former and 

 inner part of latter ; the spot below the cell defined by three points 

 of raised black scales ; some blackish suffusion on medial part of 

 costa and between the stigmata ; postmedial line very indistinct 

 to vein 3, then fine, black, sinuous, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then somewhat dentate to vein 3, the costa bej'ond it with 

 ochreous points with black streaks between them ; an oblique 

 ochreous fascia from apex defined below by diffused blacki.sh, 

 continued as a slightly curved shade to above inner margin beyond 

 the po.stmedial line, with slight black .spots on the veins at middle 

 and two short black streaks below apex ; a fine waved black 

 terminal line. Hind wing with the basal half whitish tinged with 

 l)rown and with the veins brown, the terminal half brown with a 

 cupreous gloss ; cilia Avhitish, brown at base except towards tornus ; 

 the underside with the basal half white irrorated and suffused with 

 brown, a brown discoidal bar and rather diffused postmedial line 

 excurved below costa. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing more uniformlv suffused 'with fuscous. 



Hah. Br. E. Afeica, Eb Urru {Btffon), 12, E. Quaso 

 (Befton), 1 2 , Munisu {Ld. DeJamcre), 1 c? , Xairobi {Ajidcrson), 

 2 S; Tra>'STAAL, White R. (CooJce), 1 J, Natal, Victoria Distr. 

 (Gooch), 1 c?, Durban (Gtieinzms, Clarl-), 1 c? , 1 $ type. Exp. 

 28-30 millim. 



Genus MOURALIA. „ 



Tvpe. 



JI/oKw//«, Wlk. XT. 1803(1858) tinc'tuides. 



Proboscis fiillv fleveloped ; palpi upturned, (he 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of he.ul and moderately scaled, the .'ird long; irons smooth, with tuft of hair 

 above: eyes large, round, overhung bj' long cilia ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, the pro- and metatiiorax with 

 spreading crests; tibite moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal 

 series of small crests. Fore wing with the costa arclied towards apex which 

 is somewhat produced and acute, tbe termeii evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 

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

 with 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell ; small tufts of raised .-scales in and 

 below the cell. Hind wing with veins .':5, 4 from angle of cell ; T) fully developed 

 from well above angle; (1, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base onlv. 



