CYLIGRAMMA. 305 



1 (S , 2 9; Basutoland, Maseru {Crawshay), 1 5 ; Cape Colony 

 (Burke), 1 2 > Fort Beaufort (Nazelton), 1 c? ; Madagascae ; 

 Comoro Is., Mayotta [Meade-Waldo), 1 d" , Aldabra {Meade- Waldo), 

 1 c?; Aden {Yerhury, Bartlett, McJioll), 2 J , 2 $. ^Ap. 74-90 

 millim. 



7424. Cyligramma magus. (Plate CCV. figs. 6 c? , 7 $ .) 



Erebus magus, Giien. Icon. Eegn. Anim., Ins. p. 521 (1842). 

 Cyligramma goudotii, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 189 (1852). 

 Cyligramma huchholzi, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xl. p. 301 (1880). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown, the neck with 

 ochreous ring; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen greyer. 

 Fore wing grey-brown suffused in parts with fuscous, the outer 

 half of medial area black-browu ; antemedial line black, excurved 

 below costa, then oblique and angled inwards on median nervure ; 

 an inverted comma-shaped discoidal mark with trilobate head, 

 defined by black on inner side, its outer side and the head defined 

 by silvery blue, its centre fuscous, the tail irrorated with 

 yellow and with yellow line on inner side, a black patch beyond 

 the tail and rufous beyond and below the discoidal mark ; 

 medial line black, arising below costa, excurved round the 

 discoidal mark and angled inwards below it on vein 2, then 

 oblique and sinuous to inner margin, its excurved part defined 

 on outer side by ochreous grey ; a diffused oblique ochreous 

 grey postmedial band, oblique from costa to vein 6, then double, 

 the area beyond it irrorated with ochreous except towards costa ; 

 subterminal line black, waved, interrupted, arising below costa, 

 bent outwards below veins 7 and 4 and incurved at veins 5 and 2. 

 Hind wing grey-brown ; an oblique elliptical discoidal mark 

 defined by fuscous ; medial line fuscous, excurved at middle ; an 

 oblique ochreous grey postmedial band defined on inner side by 

 black-brown and diffused on outer side, whitish at costa, then 

 double, the area beyond it irrorated with ochreous ; subterminal 

 line formed by a series of black spots defined on inner side by 

 white strise, oblique from below costa to vein 6, incurved at discal 

 fold, excurved between veins 4 and 3, then again incurved. Under- 

 side of both wings grey to the postmedial band, then grey-brown, 

 narrow whitish discoidal lunules defined by fuscous ; fore wing 

 with oblique creamy white postmedial bar from costa to vein 6 and 

 band from vein 6 to inner margin, and subterminal series of 

 minute whitish lunules obsolescent towards costa ; hind wing with 

 broad oblique creamy white postmedial band and subterminal 

 series of trident ate spots just beyond it defined on outer side by 

 blackish and excurved between veins 4 and 3. 



$ . Fore wing with the oblique bar and band creamy white, 

 narrow and well defined ; hind wing with the postmedial band 

 creamy white, narrow and well defined. 



Bah. W. Africa, 1 J ; S. Nigeria, Olokemeji {Dudgeon), 1 c? , 

 Hesha {Humfrey), 2 J , 1 $ ; N. Nigekia, Bauchi Prov., Panyam 



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