ANT7A. 



431 



'. Fore wing with the subterminal line excurved below 



vein 7, then incurved to inner margin. 

 «^. Fore wing with the postmedial line escnrved to 

 vein 4, then incurved. 

 a^. Fore wing with the autemedial line slightly 



oblique and waved violascens. 



li^. Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique and 



straight ivmiclilwea. 



h'^. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved 



below costa, at middle and to inner margin rccurxxda. 



C-. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved 

 below costa, then oblique, sinuous, and joining the 



antemedial line above inner margin Iwpei. 



. Fore wing with the subterminal line excurved below 



vein 7 and dentate above and below vein 4 salita. 



. Fore wing with the subterminal line excurved below 



vein 7, then si raight melaconwia. 



'. Fore wing with the subterminal line almost straight 



throughout, 

 ft*. Fore wing with tl:e ground-colour greenish 



ochreous trapezium. 



Ir. Fore wing witii the ground-colour purplish red- 

 brown circvwferens. 



*7543. Anua pelor. (Plate CCXIV. fig. 10.) 

 Ophiodes pelor, Mab. C. R. Ent. Soc. Belg. xxv. p. Ivii (1881). 



cJ . Head and thorax ochreous white slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 antennae blackish; palpi orange-fulvous, the 3rd joint brown; 

 lower part of frons red-brown ; pectus and legs orange-yellow, the 

 fore and mid tibia) and tarsi and the hind tarsi blackish ; abdomen 

 orange-yellow. Fore Aving ochreous suffused with rufous, the 

 costal area to beyond middle and the veins ochreous ; orbicular a 

 small round black spot ; reniform rtifous with ochreous annulus, 

 narrow, oblique, constricted at middle ; postmedial line ochreous 

 defined on outer side by rufous, very oblique, straight; subterminal 

 line ochreous, obliquely incurved. Hind wing orange-yellow, with 

 broad black-brown siibterminal band from apex to vein 3, towards 

 which it narrows somewhat, the area bej'ond it grey irrorated with 

 brown ; cilia ochreous white. Underside pale yellow, the terminal 

 area of fore wing and costal area of hind wing slightly irrorated 

 with brown; fore wing with black-brown postmedial jiatch between 

 veins 5 and 2. 



Hah. Madagascar, type t S in Coll. Mabille. Exp. ]12millim. 



7544. Anua tirhaca. 



Nochia tirhaca, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 116, pi. 172. f. E (1780) ; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. Pal. p. 246. 

 NocUta vesta, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 141. f. 1 (1789). 

 Noctua auricularis, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 321, 777-81 (1802). 

 A^octua tirrkcea, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 3, p. 300 (1826) ; Godt. Lep. Fr. 



V. p. 119, pi. 65. f. 1. 



