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subbasal line ; a double black antemedial line excurved at middle, 

 then oblique ; an indistinct waved medial line bent outwards in cell ; 

 the postmedial line sharply angled outwards beyond upper angle of 

 cell, incurved below vein 3, then sinuous and with a black bracket- 

 shaped mark on it from below costa running obliquely towards 

 middle of termen ; two indistinct waved lines beyond the postmedial 

 line ; the subterminal line minutely dentate, excurved at middle and 

 white towards costa ; cilia green chequered with black. Hindwing 

 with the basal half white, the terminal half black, greyish towards 

 tornus and with traces of waved medial, two postmedial, and a sub- 

 terminal line ; cilia chequered white and black ; the under side with 

 discoidal spot and more distinct dentate lines. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Sahsbury (Marshall). Exp. 28 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



Genus MALIATTHA. 



Type. 

 Maliattha, Wlk. xxvii. 86 (1863) separata. 



A. Porewing with the basal area whitish. 



a. Forewing with brown medial band with dentate edges . . . . signifera. 



b. Forewing without medial band, the terminal area brown with 

 oblique inner edge vialis. 



B. Forewing with the basal area blackish varicolora. 



(1) Maliattha signifera, Wlk. xii. 793 (1857). Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



iii. pi. 150, f. 4. 

 Tarache perta, Schaus, Lep. S, Leone, p. 36, pi. iii. f. 10 (1893). 

 Hab. West Africa, Sierra Leone ; Abyssinia ; British East Africa, 



Teita; Natal (Gooch), Malvern (Marshall); Japan; China; 



India, Ceylon, and Burma; Andamans ; Christmas Island; 



Australia. Exp. 18 mill. 



(2) Maliattha vialis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 135 (1879). 



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

 $ 20, ? 22 mill. 



(3) Maliattha varicolora, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreous strongly irrorated 

 and suffused with black ; anal tuft of male ochreous. Forewing 

 with the basal area black, shghtly mixed with grey ; the medial area 

 grey, irrorated and suffused with black, or in the Natal specimen 

 flesh pink irrorated with olive and a few black scales from costa to 

 submedian fold ; the orbicular and reniform large, indistinct, greyish 



