Eastern and African Ilelerocera. 20.') 



Dudusa nohilis. 



Dudiisa nobilm, Walker, xxxii. 447 (18(35), 



Crinodes Vethi, Snellen, Vetli's Mid.-Sum., Lep. p. 40, pi. iv. iv^i. 1, L* 

 (1880). 



The type from N. Cliina is in the B. M. 



Snellen'.s type.s were from Sumatra. 1 have a female from 

 Ichanfj, a female from Maka,s.sar, Celebe.s, and a male from 

 the Kliasia Hills. There is an exam{)le in Mas. Oxon. from 

 8iiiga])ore, and Hampson records it from the Kha.sia Ilill.-<, 

 Malacca, and Celebes. They appear to me to be identical. 



Dudusa synopla, no v. 



? . Antennae black ; palpi dark brown at the outer sides, 

 the inner sides, frons, head, and thorax ochreous brown ; 

 crest in the front of the thorax large and upstanding; abdo- 

 men pale ochreous brown, the sides with broad blackish- 

 brown segmental bands, the first band crossing the abdomen 

 above; anal tuft ochreous grey, with black feathery tips: 

 fore wings pale ochreous fawn-colour, the veins somewhat 

 prominent ; a short subbasal blacki.sh band and a broad 

 oblique blackish band from the costa a little before the 

 middle, where it is more or less obsolescent, to the outer 

 margin one fourth from the hinder angle, much as in 

 D. nobilis ; a narrow greyish band from the outer margin 

 below the apex, running in a slightly waved form to the 

 hinder margin near the base, where it broadens and becomes 

 diffuse ; indications of antemedial, double, transverse grey 

 lines and two similar lines from the co-ta one third from the 

 apex, where it bends inwards, to the middle of the hinder 

 margin, these lines somewhat crenulate; submarginal pale 

 lunular marks, with a short brown lunular line in each and 

 marginal brown lunuhir marks : hind wings dark brown, with 

 duplex marginal brown lunules. Underside greyish ochreous; 

 a blackish-brown spot at the end of each cell, and a crenulated 

 brown discal line across both wings, bent inwards below the 

 middle on the fore wings, evenly curved outwards on the 

 jiind wings; marginal lunules as above; thorax dark brown, 

 tarsi black ; abdomen greyish ochreous. 



Expanse of wings -1^ inches. 



Khasia Hills; three examples. 



The antennaj are as deeply bipectinate as in the male of 

 D. nohilis, of which I have both sexes; the wings are much 

 broader. 



