210 NOCTUID^.. 



b^. Fore wing without small spot below end of cell 

 connected by a sinus with the postraediai line. 

 a^. Fore wing with small white spot on the cilia 

 below apex. 



a^. Hind wing with the terminal band broad hijninctata. 



6'. Hind wing with the terminal band much nar- 

 rower agrotidea . 



b^. Fore wing without white spot on the cilia below 

 apex. 

 a^. Hind wing with the fuscous on termen extend- 

 ing to costa melaleuca. 



b^. Hind wing with the fuscous on termen not 



extending to costa fatilcga. 



7328. Audea endopliasa, n. sp. (Plate CCII. figs. 3 c? , 4 $ .) 



S . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with more or less red- 

 brown ; spurs and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen black-brown 

 with some rufous at base of dorsum and greyish segmental lines 

 interrupted dorsally on basal segments, the ventral surface brown 

 mixed with grey. Fore wing black-brown slightly irrorated with 

 grey, the basal area blacker : antemedial line black, expanding 

 into a spot at costa, slightly angled inwards in cell, then oblique, 

 sinuous ; a slight black discoidal lunule ; traces of a small spot 

 defined by black below end of cell connected by a sinus on vein 2 

 with the postmedial line, which is black, oblique and slightly down- 

 curved to vein 6, then minutely waved and oblique below vein 4 ; 

 the dark area bounded by a slight line oblique from costa to vein 4, 

 then erect, the area beyond it slightly paler ; a crenulate black 

 terminal line defining white points at the extremities of the veins ; 

 cilia with a small white spot below apex. Hind wing whitish 

 clothed with fuscous hair, the basal area ochreous to median 

 nervure, the terminal area fuscous black, broadly at costa and 

 narrowing towards tornus. Underside of fore wing with a little 

 whitish at base, clothed with silvery fuscous scales to the indistinct 

 oblique whitish line from costa beyond middle to tornu«, the ter- 

 minal area greyer ; hind wing white to the terminal band, the 

 costa suffused with fuscous and with a blackish spot above end 

 of cell. 



5 . Thorax except tegulse brown mixed with white, the meta- 

 thorax with a black patch ; fore wing with brownish white mixed, 

 a subbasal black line angled outwards below costa and ending at 

 Bubmedian fold, a blackish patch on inner area before the ante- 

 medial line, the lines and spot below end of cell much more 

 prominent; hind wing pure white except the inner and terminal 

 areas ; underside of fore wing with some white in end of cell, the 

 postmedial band distinct from costa to vein 5; hind wing with the 

 black spot on costa oblique. 



ffab. SiEREA Leoke, Freetown (Austen), 1 cJ ; Gold Coast, 

 Aburi (Johnson), 1 c? ; S. Nigekia, Lagos (Boag), 1 § , Calabar 

 (Dudgeon), 1 c? , Olokemeji (Dudgeon), 2 2 , Ilesha (Humfrey), 

 Id, 1-9 type; N. Nigeria, Panguma (Anderson), 2 $. Exp. 

 52-60 millim. 



