182 Mr. L. B. Piout on 



mixed with dark grey, the anal tuft pale ; pectus and venter 

 pale grey. 



Fore iviny moderately broad, costa curved towards the 

 apex, which is minutely falcate, termen otherwise more 

 convex than in mercatoria, Falir. ; light yellow-brown or 

 red-brown, with strong vinaceous reflections — at least, in 

 median area; distal area and costal edge generally more 

 yellow; a Avhite dot close to base; lines grey or blackish; 

 subbasal faint and interrupted, obsolete posteriorly ; ante- 

 median fine, oblique, slightly creuulate, especially in anteiior 

 part ; median rather thick, almost straight, bent proximad 

 in front of C, placed beyond middle of wing ; pustmedian 

 fine, finely crenulate-dentate, slightly angled at E,' ; orbicular 

 stigma represented by a black dot about 2 mm. from ante- 

 median line, reniform by an anterior and a posterior black 

 dot, 2 or 3 mm. inside median shade, with a weaker dot 

 more proximally placed between them ; a small pale violet- 

 grey or somewhat vinaceous apical patch ; a row of minute 

 paired interneural dots (proximally black, distally white) 

 close to termen. 



Hind wing dusky greyish-ochreous, becoming almost 

 black distally between costa and M- and with more irregular 

 blackish admixture near tornus ; a small whitish apical spot; 

 an ill-defined light ochreous-brown band beyond middle, 

 from R^ or R- towards tornus, interrupted posteriorly ; a 

 light brown terminal patch towards tornus : fringe (with 

 extreme termen) whitish from before R^ to behind R', 

 otherwise brown. 



Fore wing beneath light brown, violet- grey along costa and 

 part of termen, somewhat clouded in cell and behind proximal 

 half of M^; cell-spot large, crescentic, black, touching the faint 

 median shade ; postmediau black, forming a very slight 

 regular curve ; a large black blotch beyond this, mainly be- 

 tween R- and M- ; traces of a pale crenulate subterminal line; 

 minute ad marginal dots nearly as above, but Avith whitish 

 shading proximally. Hind wing beneath pale grey, more 

 brownish costally and apically than posteriorly ; a sharp black 

 cell-dot, which sometimes shows through on upperside ; three 

 (usually in part ill-defined) brown lines beyond, the second 

 and third dentate, the latter ending in a dark spot close 

 to tornus; admarginal dots nearly as on fore wing; fringe 

 warm brown except about the radials, posteriorly in dark- 

 marked specimens fuscous. 



Central Madagascar, 2500 feet, Jan.-March 1911 {F.B. 

 Pratt), 4 J J . 2 ? ? . 



Differs from mercatoria, Fabr., in shape, in straight median 



