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NOCTUID^l*:. 



Sect. II. Palpi witb the 3rd joint porrect, moderate ; bind wing witb veins 

 4, 5 shortly stalked. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line retracted to lower angle 



of cell voolastoni. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line not retracted to lower 



angle of cell conifera. 



r370. Crypsotidia voolastoni. 



Crypsotidia woolastoni, N. C. 

 idem. xii. pi. iv. f. 33. 



Roths. Not. Zool. viii. p. 432 (1901); id. 



(S . Head and tegulse red-brown; thorax whitish tinged with 

 red-brown ; legs fuscons brown mixed with some grey ; abdomen 

 whitish tinged with red-brown, the ventral surface darker. Fore 

 wing whitish irrorated with red-brown, the costal and terminal 

 areas broadly suffused with red-brown ; a dark red-brown ante- 

 medial patch from cell to inner margin, its outer edge exourved 



Fig. 31. — Crypsotidia voolastoni, (^ . \. 



below submedian fold ; postmedial line slight, brown faintly defined 

 on outer side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, exourved and 

 minutely waved to vein 3, then retracted to lower angle of cell and 

 forming the outer edge of the dark patch ; traces of a pale sub- 

 terminal line, angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of whitish points defined by a waved brown line. 

 Hind wing ochreous white, the veins of terminal area and termen 

 tinged with red-brown ; cilia ochreous white, brownish at apex ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with red-brown, the 

 apical area suffused with red-brown, an oblique crenulate post- 

 medial line from costa to vein 6. 



Hab. Egypt, Shendi, type t in Coll, llothschild ; Abyssinia, 

 Harrar (Degen), 1 ^ . Eny. 34 millim. 



