The Moths of South Africa. 325 



Genus AUDEA. 



Type. 



^wfZm, Wlk. xiii. 1135 (1857) bijnmctata. 



Ulothrichopus, Wllgrn. Svensk, Acad. 



Handl. V. 4, p. 76 (1866) mesoleuca. 



Tachosa, Wlk. Tr. N.H. Soc. Glasg. i. 



p. 343 (1875) acronyctoides. 



Alura, Moschl. Verb. Zool. bot. Ges. 



Wien. xxxiii. p. 304 (1884) catocala. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male with four small tile-like tufts of hair on upper 

 side four-fifths from base ; fore tibi£e with a group of spines on 

 inner side at extremity. 



(1) AuDEA TEGULATA, 11. Sp. 



Head and thorax black and grey; the antennal tufts in male 

 ochreous; abdomen grey irrorated with fuscous and tinged with 

 fulvous towards base. Forewing grey strongly irrorated with black ; 

 small black subbasal, antemedial, and medial black spots on costa ; 

 an indistinct medial black line angled outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 3 ; discocellulars black ; the postmedial line 

 crenulate, oblique from costa to vein 5 and below vein 3 slightly 

 inwardly oblique and with a curved diffused line beyond it ; a fine 

 crenulate terminal line. Hindwing whitish tinged with pale fulvous ; 

 a terminal black-brown band narrowing from costa to vein 1. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. ^ 46, ? 50 mill. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male without tufts of hair ; fore tibiae without 



spines. 



A. Hindwing yellow. 



a. Forewing with the postmedial line produced to very long 



teeth above veins 4, 5 catocala. 



b. Forewing with the postmedial line produced to short teeth above veins 4, 5. 

 a\ Forewing with the ground colour greenish grey . . . . variegata. 

 b\ Forewing with the ground colour black-brown . . . , in-imulina. 



B. Hindwing white or whitish. 



a. Forewing with the postmedial line not retracted to origin of vein 2. 

 a'. Hindwing with the terminal band very broad and 



running up to base on inner area mesoleuca. 



b^. Hindwing with the terminal band narrow at tornus. 

 a". Hindwing with the inner area tinged with brown. 

 a3. Forewing without postmedial blackish patch on 



costa tinctipennis. 



&3. Forewing with postmedial blackish patch on 



costa humeralis. 



b'. Hindwing with the inner area pure white. 



