350 N0CTTJID2E. 



minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, a white point beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line represented by slight w^bite points and 

 small white spots on costa just before apex and above tornus. 

 Hind Aving white irroratcd with brown especially on terminal area ; 

 a slight discoidal spot ; cilia white with a slight brown line near 

 base ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irroratcd 

 wath brown, a small discoidal spot and indistinct curved jjostmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Bechuanaland, N'Gami (Lugard), 1 J type. Ex'p. 20 

 millim. 



3989. Athetis leuconephra, n. sp. (Plate CXXX. fig. 21.) 



S . Head and tegulse white tinged with rufous ; palpi black at 

 base : antennae black ringed with white ; thorax dark brown with 

 some white scales, the metathorax blue-black ; pectus and legs 

 ochreous white, the tibiae banded with black, the tarsi black ringed 

 with white; abdomen brown mixed with ochreous, the ventral 

 surface ochreous white irrorated with brown. Fore wing greyish 

 fuscous irrorated with white and with some ochreous below 

 costa and in submedian fold to postmedial line ; subbasal line black 

 defined by white on outer side, minutely waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; anteraedial line black slightly datined by white on 

 inner side on costal half, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, 

 sinuous ; orbicular a small round black spot with white annulus, a 

 black patch beyond it before the reniform, which is pure white 

 slightly defined by black and with slight black lunule in centre ; a 

 diffused oblique sinuous dark line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line black defined by ochreous on outer side, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line formed of white scales with minute black 

 streaks before it from below costa to vein 3, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, excurved at middle and angled inwards at discal and sub- 

 median folds ; a terminal series of black striae. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with brown; cilia ochreous white, brown at apex; the 

 underside white slightly irrorated with brown, the costal area 

 tinged with ochreous, a dark discoidal point, curved postmedial line, 

 and terminal series of dark stria3. 



Bab. Mashojjaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 c5' type. E^^p. 26 

 millim. 



3990. Athetis bicornis. 



Orthosia hicornis, Hoipsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 77, pi. 145. f. 18 (1891) ; 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 262. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish mixed with brown ; palpi 

 black at sides except at tips ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white. 

 Fore wing grey suffused Avith browu and irrorated with fuscous, the 



