256 Annals of the South African Museum. 



&*. Mid tibise not spined. 



a^. Eyes hairy Momincs. 



b^. Eyes not hairy. 



a^. Byes with long overhanging cilia . . Plusiance. 

 &6. Eyes not ciliated. 



a^. Hindwing with vein 5 from close 



to lower angle of cell, strong . . Noctuince. 

 W. Hindwing with vein 5 from well 



above angle of cell, rather weak Erastriance. 



fii. Hindwing with vein 5 parallel to 4 Hypenina;. 



B. Maxillary palpi present HijhlmincB. 



Sub-Family AGROTINiE. 



A. Frons with rounded prominence.- 



a. Fore tibiae with stout apical claws. 



a}. Forewing rather long and narrow Timora. 



fti. Forewing rather short and broad Raghuva. 



h. Fore tibia with slender apical claws Melicleptria. 



c. Fore tibise without claws Adisura. 



B. Frons without rounded prominence Agrotis. 



Genus TIMORA. 



Type. 



Timora, Wlk. ix. 182 (1856) senegalensis. 



A. Forewing with oblique interrupted postmedial pink band with 



white points on it leucosticta. 



B. Forewing with pink fasciffi below costa and above inner margin lanceolata. 



(1) TiMOEA LEUCOSTICTA, n. Sp. 



3' . Ochreous ; thorax with some pink hair behind tegulge ; fore 

 coxse and femora and tibiae pink above. Forewing with diffused 

 pink fasciae below costa and in base of cell ; an antemedial pink patch 

 with white point on it on vein 1 ; an oblique pink bank with white 

 points on it from apex to inner margin beyond middle interrupted in 

 discal and submedian folds ; cilia pink. 



Hab. N'Gamiland (Lugard). Exp. 26 mill. Type in B.M. 



(2) TiMOKA LANCEOLATA, Wlk. xxxiii. 767 (1865). 



Curubasa depicta, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 146, pi. 8, 

 f. 4. 



Rob. West Africa, Niger R. ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Mar- 

 shall) ; Natal, Malvern (Marshall). Exp. $ 24-30, ? 30- 

 40 mill. 



