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the outer edge of the ocellus and strongly angled inwards on vein 2, 

 then waved to inner naargin, a large irregularly wedge-shaped black 

 patch beyond it from below costa to vein 5 with a sinuous line from 

 it to inner margin, excurved below veins 4 and 2 ; subterminal 

 line represented by a sinuous series of rather lunulate black marks, 

 excurved below veins 7 and 4 and with a similar obscure fuscous 

 lunulate band before it. Hind wing brown with a slight purplish 

 grey gloss; an oblique blackish medial line ; a sligbtly waved post- 

 medial blackish band defined on outer side by grey; a subterminal 

 series of blackish bars, slightly incurved below vein 2. Underside 

 of both wings greyish brown to beyond middle, then fuscous brown 

 with a purplish gloss, a postmedial series of white spots in the 

 interspaces, on fore wing excurved below veins 7 and 4, and 

 subterminal series of slight white lunules. 



5 . Hind wing with the medial line excurved beyond lower angle 

 of cell, the postmedial band angled outwards below veins 7 and 4, 

 the subterminal series of bars incurved between veins 6 and 4 ; 

 the underside with the postmedial series of white spots and sub- 

 terminal series of lunules incurved between veins 6 and 4. 



Hah. Gold Coast (Johnston), 1 c? , Ashanti, Obuassi (GraJiam), 

 2 (5; S. NiGBEiA, Lagos, Yaba {Sieger), 1 S , Old Calabar (Cromjy- 

 ton), 1 2 , Onitsha, I'r^ , 1 $ , Oban Uistr. {Talhot), 1 $ ; N. Nigeria 

 {Dudgeon), 1 §; Congo, Boma {Christy), 1 S '■> Angola, Kibokolo 

 do Zombo {Lewis), 1 5 ; Br. E. Africa, Masailand {Hunter), I g, 

 Kilima'njaro {Hannington), 1 (5 , Taveta {Rogers), 1 5 , Nairobi 

 (Crawshag), 1 $ ; Uganda, Bugoba {Ladbury), \ ^ , \ $ , E,uwen- 

 zori ( WoUaston), 1 $ ; Germ. E. Africa, Usagara, Kilossa {Neave), 

 1 5 ; Br. C. Africa, Tanganyika {Bore), 1 5 , Blantyre {Amhruster), 

 1 5 1 Mlanji Boma {Neave), 1 $ ; Mashonaland, Salisbury {Mar- 

 shall), 1 $ ; Mozambique, Beira {Shej^pard), 1 (S ; Natal, Tongaafc 

 11., 1 S, Malvern {Marshall), 1 6 , Durban {Gueinzius, McKen, 

 Burrows), 1 c? , 2 § type ; Madagascar {Pfeiffer) 1 5 , Eianarantsoa 

 {Cowan), 1 S , Tyilekke, 1 cJ , 1 $; Mauritius {Manders), 1 S ; 

 Seychelles, Aldabra {Meade- Waldo), 1 $ . Exp. 120-134 millim. 



7407. Nyctipao macrops. 



Noctua onacrops, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. iii. App. p. 225 (1768) ; Moore, Lep, 



Oeyl. iii. p. 145, pi. 164. f. 5 ; Huipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 459. 

 Noctua hubo, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 209 (1781). 

 Patula boopis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 178 (1852). 



c5' . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown, tegulse blackish at lips, 

 the patagia with blackish band towards tips, genital tufts of hair 

 yellow. Eore wing brown with a slight purplish gloss ; a curved 

 black subbasal line from below costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line black, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then sinuous; 

 medial line represented by an oblique black bar from costa, and a 

 line from cell to inner margin angled outwards in submedian fold 

 and below vein 1 ; a very large ocellus in, beyond, and below end of 

 cell, fulvous defined by black, a comma-shaped black mark in outer 



