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Hadena ficita, Wlk. xxxiii. 734 (1865). 

 ,, contracta, Wlk. xxxiii. 735 (1865). 

 servilis, Wlk. xxxiii. 736 (1865). 

 Rab. British East Africa, Machakos ; Mashonaland, Salisbury 

 (Marshall) ; Delagoa Bay (H. Junod) ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutch- 

 inson), Durban (Leigh) ; Cape Colony (A. Smith, Drege, 

 Trimen). Exp. 34 mill. 



(7) Mamestra consanguis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 97 (1852). 

 Hadena languida, Wlk. xv. 728 (1858.) 



Hab. West Africa, Congo; British East Africa; Mashonaland, 

 Salisbury (Marshall) ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; Cape 

 Colony, Transkei (Miss P. Barrett); India; Ceylon. Exp. 

 32 mill. 



(8) Mamestka definiens, Wlk. xi. 689 (1857). 



Bab. Cape Colony (Dr. Smith) ; O'okiep. Ejp. 36 mill. 



(9) Mamestra furvilinea, n. sp. 



? . Head and thorax purplish red, the scales tipped with grey ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Forewing clothed with blackish, purplish red, 

 brown and grey scales ; an indistinct pale antemedial line incurved 

 to costa ; the orbicular and reniform with grey outlines and brown 

 patches beyond them ; traces of a postmedial line curved from costa 

 to vein 4, then slightly bent inwards ; the subterminal line whitish 

 with rufous on its inner edge, somewhat bent outwards at vein 7. 

 Hindwing white, the veins and terminal area tinged with fuscous ; a 

 fuscous line at base of cilia except towards tornus. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall) ; Cape Colony, Transkei 

 (Miss F. Barrett). Ex23. 38 mill. Type in B.M. 



(10) Mamestra natalensis, Butl. A.M.N.H. (4) xvi. p. 403 (1875). 

 Hab. Natal (Burrows), Durban (Leigh). Exp. 32 mill. 



(11) Mamestra poliastis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax white tinged with green and irrorated with black ; 

 antenna ringed with black ; abdomen tinged with black above, leaving 

 white segmental lines. Forewing white tinged in part with grey- 

 green and irrorated with black scales ; a short bisinuate subbasal 

 black line ; a waved medial line dentate inwards on median nervure 

 and vein 1 ; a discoidal lunule ; a dentate postmedial line excurved 



