418 



N0CTUIDJ3. 



before the fine dark terminal line ; cilia dark red-brown. Hind 

 wing white, the inner area with some pale brown hair; cilia mixed 

 with reddish, the underside with the costal area irrorated with red. 



Fig. 110. — Amefrontia 'purpurea, (^ . |. 



Bab. SoKOTKA, Hadibu Plain {0. -Grant), 1 r7 type ; Bb. E. 

 Africa, Taveta {St. A. Rogers), 1 S . Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus ETHIOPICA, nov. 



Type, E. vinosa. 



Proboscis aborted, not functional; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint i-eaching 

 about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd joint 

 short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, 

 the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibiae smoothly scaled; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 

 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to foi'm the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just 

 below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle: 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna; of male bipectinate with short branches. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with whitish and 



defined by small white spots. 

 a. Hind wing pure white. 



a'. Fore wing purplish red vinosa. 



b^. Fore wing cupreous brown cupricolora, 



h. Hind wing suffused with brown polya&tra. 



B. Fore wing with the reniform defined by slight white points 



and not filled in with whitish hesperonota. 



0. Fore wing with the reniform represented by a black and 



white point onicra. 



4100, Ethiopica vinosa. 



Charidea vinosa, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 292 (1902). ~ ^ 

 J . Head and thorax purplish red, the scales slightly tipped 



Fig. 111. — Ethiopica vinosa, S- I- 

 with white ; tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen white, the ventral 



