438 NocTUid). 



with, rufous, the tibiao and tarsi dark brown ; abdomen yellow, the 

 three terminal segments with diffused blackish bands. Fore wing- 

 yellowish white tinged with rufous and irrorated with black-brown ; 

 a dark point in middle of cell ; reniform defined by rufous, con- 

 stricted at middle ; traces of a double postmedial series of brown 

 stride, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, rufous, 

 white angled outwards and with black spot before it below vein 7, 

 then incurved to vein 4 below which there is a black point defined 

 on outer side by white, incurved and defined on outer side by 

 whitish towards inner margin ; a slight oblique brown shade from 

 apex, a series of slight brown points before termen and a fine brown 

 terminal line. Hind wing uniform yelloAV. Underside of fore 

 wing yellow, the terminal area tinged with rufous and striated 

 with brown except towards tornus. 



Hah. N. Australia, Port Darwin (/. J. WaUcer), 1 6 type. 

 Exji). 72 millim. 



7554. Anua dianaris. 



Ophiodes dianaris, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 232 (1852) ; Hiupsn. Nat. Hist. 

 Sokotra, p. 328, pi. sx. f. 15. 



o . Head and thorax grey, the palpi, frons, and anteunaB 

 browner ; pectus and legs grey tinged with brown ; abdomen pale 

 yellow, the extremity and ventral surface grey-brown. Pore wing 

 blue-grey irrorated with blackish ; an indistinct oblique slightly 

 sinuous pale antemedial line ; a dark point in middle of cell ; 

 reniform defined by brown and with brown striga in centre, 

 constricted at middle ; traces of an oblique sinuous postmedial 

 line ; siibterminal line grey defined on each side by broAvn and 

 with brown suffusion before it, angled outwards and with black 

 before it below vein 7, excurved and with black before it below 

 vein 4 ; some brown suffusion on the veins before middle of termen ; 

 a slight waved brown line with black points on it just before 

 termen. Hind wing pale yellowish tinged with rufous ; a diffused 

 brown band on terminal area, broad towards costa and narrowing 

 to a point at vein 1 ; a fine waved brown terminal line ; cilia 

 white. Underside of fore wing white tinged with brown, a 

 difl'used brown baud before termen except towards inner margin ; 

 hind wing white tinged with yellow towards base, a diffused brown 

 subterminal band from costa to vein 2. 



$ . Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with fuscous broAvn ; 

 hind wing with the blackish area very broad and extending to 

 before middle. 



Hah. SoKOTEA, Adho Dimellus (0. Grant), 1 c? , 1 ? ; Abyssinia; 

 Transvaal, Lydenburg (Krantz), 1 § ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchin- 

 son), 1 c? 5 2 5 ; Orange E,. Colony, Kroonstad {Eclcersley), 1 $ ; 

 Cape Colony, Ivnysna, 1 S ■ Exp. 60 millim. 



