Genera and Species of Noctuidae. 581 



193 b. Timora umbrifascia } sp. 11. 



? . Head and thorax dark brown tinged with prey ; an- 

 tennae whitish : palpi, frons, pectus, and legs dark brown ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, theventral surface dark brown. Fore 

 wing- whitish tinged with red-brown ; a dark brown fascia 

 in and just below the cell extending to termen, with a white 

 fascia on it in diseal fold from middle of cell to near ternien, 

 pointed at extremities; the terminal area suffused with dark 

 brown. Hind wing white, the margin tinged with brown ; 

 the veins with slight brown streaks towards termen ; cilia 

 brown at base, whitish at tips; the underside white, the 

 costal and terminal areas tinged with red-brown andirrorated 

 with dark brown. 



Bab. Nigeria, Zungeru (Marfie), 1 ? type. Exp. 34 mm. 



2G8c. Micragrotis melanomesa, sp. n. 



<$ . Head and tegulre white slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 palpi black except at tips; frons black at sides; autennse 

 black ringed with white towards base ; thorax black mixed 

 with whitish and rufous, the metathorax with white patch ; 

 pectus and legs whitish mixed with dark brown, the tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown, theventral 

 surface white tinged with red-brown. Fore wing giev- 

 white tinged with rufous and striated with brown, the 

 terminal area grey-white striated with brown; subbasal line 

 double, black filled in with white, from costa to vein l,some 

 black suffusion beyond it on costa and below the ceil ; ante- 

 n-edial line double, blackish, strong and filled in with white 

 at costa, bent outwards to inner margin, the cell beyond it 

 black ; orbicular white, small, elliptical, confluent with a 

 patch on costal area ; renil'orm small, white slightly defined 

 by blackish and with some blackish in centre ; postmedial 

 line double, black and filled in with white towards costa, 

 bent outwards below costa. then very indistinct and exeurvcd 

 with a series of dark points on its outer edge, a black patch 

 beyond it on costal area, with some white points on costa ; 

 a faint dark subtermina] shade defining the whiter area; a 

 terminal series of small black spots ; cilia fuscous, with a 

 fine white line at base. Hind wing semihyaline white; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a post- 

 medial series of black points on the veins, and black points 

 on apical half of termen. 



Hub. Br. F. Africa, Nairobi (Anderson), 1 £ type. Exp. 

 24 mm. 



