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Genus EAGHUVA. 



Type. 

 Raghuva, Moore, P.Z.S. 1881, p. 362 ... confertissinta. 

 Raghuva multiradiata, n. sp. 



Head and thorax grey-brown tinged with fulvous. Fore wing pale 

 olive- brown ; the subbasal line indistinct ; the antemedial line 

 sinuous, dentate above inner margin and with some rufous on its 

 inner side ; claviform large and elongate with whitish streak in 

 centre and defined by brown ; a whitish streak in cell with the small 

 orbicular below it with dark centre and defined by brown ; reuiform 

 large with black centre and defined by black ; postmedial line 

 minutely dentate with series of white points on it, bent outwards 

 below costa and incurved below vein 3 with some rufous or dark 

 suffusion beyond it ; the veins of terminal area with black streaks on 

 dentate whitish marks extending to ternien ; a series of small 

 terminal black spots in the interspaces ; cilia pale with a dark line at 

 base. Hindwing yellowish brown ; cilia pale with a dark line at 

 base ; the under side ochreous with dark discoidal lunules, slightly 

 sinuous postmedial line, and terminal series of small black luuules. 



Hab. British East Africa, Eb Urru, Athi R. (Betton) ; Mashona- 

 laiid, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Transvaal. Exp. 30 mill. Type in B.M. 



Genus MELICLEPTRIA. 



Type. 



Melicleptria, Hiibn. Verz. p. 262 (1327) scutosa. 



A. Forevving yellow, the inner area tinged with rufous and fuscous xanlhiata. 



B. Forewing ochreous or brownish. 



a. Forewing without terminal black spot above tornus. 



ai. Forewing with series of white points on the dark post- 

 medial band scutiligera. 



b^. Forewing without series of white points on the postmedial 



band armigera. 



b. Forewing with terminal black spot above tornus peltigera. 



(1) Melicleptria xanthiata, Wlk. xxxiii. 770 (1865). 

 IJab. Natal, Karkloof (Marshall). Exp. 36 mill. 



(2) Melicleptria scutiligera, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 180 (1852). 

 Heliothis errans, Wlk. xxxiii. 769 (1865). 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh) ; Cape Colony, Knysna (Trhnen), 

 Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett) ; O'okiep (Lightfoot). Exp. 30 mill. 



