218 



NOCTUID^. 



below vein 4 ; hind wing with the terminal area more broadly 

 black ; underside of fore wing with blackish postmedial band with 

 whitish band beyond it from costa to vein 4. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Nairobi {Anderson), 2 $ ; Bechtjanaland, 

 Lake N'Gami (Lugard), 1 cj' , 1 $ type ; Transvaal, Lydenburgh, 

 1 o , E.V2). d 40, 5 i2 millim. 



B. Fore wing of male without fringe of large scales from costa. 



a. TeguliB of male much produced and with tufts of ochreous scales at 

 extremity ; fore wing on underside with the cell clothed with fulvous 

 androconia. 



7338. Audea fumata. 



Lophojjtera fumata, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 171 (1860). 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous brown ; frons 

 with lateral black bars ; tegulse with blackish band and ochreous 

 scales at extremities, the metathorax with blackish streaks at sides ; 

 pectus ochreous white ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 white tinged with ochreous and with grey-brown at extremity. 



Fig. 16. — Audea jiimata, cJ. 



Fore wing grey -white irrorated with fuscous, some blackish suffusion 

 at middle of inner margin ; subbasal line black, angled outwards 

 below costa and at median nervure, ending at submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line black slightly defined on inner side by white, angled 

 outwards and tridentate in cell, then sinuous, two black discoidal 

 points and a small spot above them on costa ; a large spot defined 

 by black below end of cell, its outer edge excised ; postmedial line 

 black slightly defined on outer side by white, crenulate, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line slight, white defined on 



