380 NOCTUID^. 



brown spot at costa, theu represented by a series of points on the 

 veins, excurved to vein 5, then incurved and angled outwards at 

 submedian fold ; subterminal line white, almost straight, defined 

 on inner side by bright red-bi'own suffusion and on outer except 

 towards costa by purplish grey with slight dark streaks in the 

 interspaces ; a series of slight brown points before termen ; a 

 terminal series of brown strise and a fine pale line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing ochreous white, the terminal area suffused with rufous ; 

 a faint sinuous brown medial line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin; a faint waved brown postmedial line from discal fold to 

 inner margin with dark points at the veins, excurved at submedian 

 interspace ; a faint pale subterminal line from discal fold to tornus ; 

 a series of brown stria? before termen defined by whitish; a hue 

 brown terminal line and a spot on the lobe at vein 4 ; the under- 

 side white, the costal area slightly tinged with rufous, the terminal 

 area suffused with rufous. 



Hah. Damaraland, 1 J type. Exj). 50 millim. 



7490. Ctenusa pallida. (Plate CCXI. fig. 3.) 

 Galliodes pallida, Hiupsn. Ann. S. Afi-. Mus. ii. p. 321 (1902). 



(J . Head rufous ; antennae and tegulae brown ; thorax and 

 abdomen pale ochreous slightly tinged with rufous ; fore legs 

 rufous, the hind tibiae and tarsi brown above. Fore wing pale 

 ochreous faintly tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown ; an 

 oblique elliptical brown discoidal spot with its outer edge indented, 

 a slight brown striga above it from costa and traces of a medial 

 shade excurved to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; a slight 

 postmedial brown striga from costa and traces of a series of dark 

 points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a rather 

 diffused double dark brown subterminal line filled in with ochreous 

 and with darker points at the veins ; a series of dark points in the 

 interspaces before termen. Hind wing ochreous faintly tinged 

 with rufous and irrorated with brown ; a diffused brown sub- 

 terminal shade, double and filled in with ochreous from vein 5 to 

 inner margin ; a series of small blackish spots before termen and a 

 slight terminal line. L'nderside ochreous white; fore wing with 

 indistinct discoidal spot and both wings with subterminal shade 

 except towards tornus. 



2 . Tegulae rufous ; thorax and fore wing more stronglj' tinged 

 with rufous, the latter with the discoidal spot faintly defined by 

 rufous and often without the medial shade and brown medial and 

 postmedial marks on costa ; both wings with the pale subterminal 

 line not defined by dark brown and without the small spots before 

 termen. 



Ab. 1 S • Fore wing more strongly tinged with rufous, 



Hctb. IST.E. Ehodesia, Kalungwisi Distr. {Neave), 2 o , 2 5 ; 

 Bechttanaland, Lake N'gami {Lucjai-d), 1 5 fyps. Exp. 50-56 

 millim. 



