378 NocTciD.^i;. 



Sect. I. Antennte of male with the bi-anches long ou both sides. 



A. Fore wing with the subterminal line curved curvilinea. 



B. Fore wing wit.li the subterminal line almost straight. 



a. Both wings with distinct waved postmedinl line rujirena. 



b. Fore wing with the postinedial line reduced to points, 



hind wing with it almost obsolete. 

 a}. Fore wing with bright rufous band before subterminal 



line caruicolor. 



bK Fore wing without rufous band before subterminal 



line pa llida. 



7487. Ctenusa curvilinea, n. sp. (Plate CCXI. fig. 1.) 



5 . Head and thorax ochreoiis, the head slightly tinged with 

 red-brown, the tegulse strongly suflfused with red-brown ; antennae 

 brown, the shaft ochreous white above towards base; fore and 

 mid legs suffused with red-brown ; abdomen pale ochreous faintly 

 tinged with red-brown. Eore wing pale ochreous irrorated with 

 brown, the terminal area siiffused with red-brown ; antemedial 

 line slight, red-brown, excurved to median nervure, then oblique 

 and with dark points on median nervure and vein 1 ; an oblique 

 black-brown discoidal bar, almost conjoined to an oblique black bar 

 from costa from which arises the faint brown medial shade, 

 excurved beyond the cell, then oblique ; postmedial line with small 

 black spot at costa, then slight, brown, excurved, waved, and with 

 black points at the veins ; subterminal line ochreous, slightly 

 defined at sides bj' brown, obliquely excurved and ending at tornus ; 

 traces of a series of minute browMi spots before termen. Hind 

 wing ochreous white ; a faint curved brown postmedial line from 

 vein 5 to 1 with slight dark points at the veins ; the terminal area 

 suffused with pale red-brown, with traces of a pale obliquely 

 curved subterminal line ending at tornus, and of a series of brown 

 points before termen. Underside of both wings ochreous white 

 with a curved brown subterminal shade, the area beyond it tinged 

 with red-bi'owai. 



Ab. 1. Eore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines almost 

 obsolete, the medial black maik on costa small and the medial shade 

 obsolete ; hind wing with the postmedial line obsolete. 



Hdb. Abyssinia, Taddecha Mullka {Begen), 2 2 type. Ea-jj. 

 42-46 millim. 



7488. Ctenusa rufirena. 



Ctenusa nifii-ena, Hmpsn. P. Z, S. 1910, p. 423, pi. xxxvii. f. 12. 



5 . Head fiery red, the vertex and tegulse chocolate-brown ; 

 palpi with dark line at sides ; thorax and abdomen yelloW' tinged 

 with rufous ; the pectus in front and fringes of hair on fore legs 

 fiery red, the fore tibiae and tarsi fuscous in front, the former 

 irrorated with white. Pore wing yellow tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated Avith fuscous ; antemedial line indistinct, red, slightly 

 defined on inner side by yellow, curved ; reniform rufous defined 



