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b. AnteniiEe of male normal ; the fore tibiffi without group of spines at 

 extremity ; tegulffi with tufts of long scales ; abdomen of female with 

 lateral tufts of scales on penultimate segment. 



7336. Audea humeralis. 



Aiidea humeralis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 327 (1902). 



Head and thorax brownish white mixed with dark brown and 

 black ; palpi except at base, frons and shoulders black ; pectus and 

 legs brownish white, the tibiae irrorated with brown and with 

 blackish bands, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 white dorsally tinged with ochreous brown. Fore wing grey-white 

 irrorated and suffused with fuscous brown and blackish, the discal 

 area semihyaline whitish ; a patch of black suffusion at base of 

 costal area ; antemedial line black, bent outwards below costa and 

 above inner margin, a patch of black suffusion before it on inner 



Fig. 14. — Audea humeralis, (^ . 



margin ; a black discoidal striga with two slight streaks before it 

 in the cell ; the veins of medial area streaked with blackish ; post- 

 medial line double, black, excurved and waved, with a black mark 

 on it below costa ; a series of slight black striae defined on outer 

 side by whitish just before termen ; cilia chequered white and 

 blackish at tips. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins and 

 inner area tinged with brown ; a terminal fuscous brown band 

 from apex to vein 2 ; cilia white tinged with brown at base. 

 Underside of fore wing white with a curved blackish postmedial 

 band and a terminal baud from apex to submedian fold. 



Hab. S. NiGEEiA, Vivet (Dudgeon), 1 5 ; Stjdan, White Nile 

 (Dunn), 1 J ; N.E. Hhodbsia, Mpika (JSfeave), 1 $ ; Mashonaland, 

 Salisbury (MarsJiall), 1 c? ; Bechtjanaland, Lake N'Gami (Lugard), 

 1 5 type. Exp. 40-48 millim. 



