44^0 NOCTTJID.!;. 



cilia beyond it tinged with brown. Underside of fore wing wliite 

 with fuscous subtermiiial band except at inner margin ; hind wing 

 white with diffused fuscous subterminal band from costa to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Thorax and fore wing slightly more tinged with rufous. 



Hah. Camekoons ; Congo {Cwror), 1 $ tyije expedita ; Br. 

 C, Afkica (de Jersey), 1 .? ; N.E. Rhodesia, Loangwa Valley 

 {Neave), 1 J , 1 $ ; Mozambique. EiVjo. 44 millim. 



7557. Anna mejanesi. (Plate CCXIV. fig. 8.) 



Ophiodes mejaned, Gueii. Noct. iii p. 232 (1852) ; Hrapsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 498. 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; palpi dark brown ; frons with 

 white line above ; antennse dark brown, white in front towards 

 base ; pectus and legs ochreous tinged with rufous, the fore and 

 mid tibiae dark browu, the larsi dark brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing bright rufous with pale stria3 

 and slight black irroratiou, the terminal area purple-grey ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, pale, obliquely curved; orbicular a minute 

 round black spot ; reniform red-brown defined by blackish, small ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, pale slightly defined on outer side by 

 red-brown, excurved to vein 4, then oblique to submedian fold and 

 sinuons to inner margin ; three white points on postmedial part of 

 costa; subterminal line grey defined on inner side by deep rufous 

 and on outer by fuscous black, excurved below vein 7-, then bent 

 inwards, incurved at vein 3, and ending at tornus ; the terminal 

 area with some brown suffusion and black irroration at middle ; a 

 crenulate brown line just before termen ; cilia brown with a fine 

 white line at base and greyish line at middle. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous; a 

 waved dark terminal line except towards apex and tornus ; cilia 

 whitish, brown at middle. Underside ochreous white, the terminal 

 area suffused with greyish fuscous. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing purple-grey to the subterminal line. 

 Hah. Senegal; Congo {Curror), 1 $> , Katanga, Kambove {JSfeave), 

 1 S ; Soudan, White Nile (Dtmn), 1 ? ; Br. C. Apkica, Fort Man- 

 goche (Neave), 1 $ , Blantyre (Amhruster), 1 $ , Lr. Shire Yalley 

 (Neave), 1 $ ; Transvaal, Lydenburg, 1 $ ; Natal, Durban (Leigh), 

 1 2 f Punjab, Allahabad, 1 5 ; Bombay (Swinlioe), 1 S , 1 S ? 

 Kanara (Ward), 1 $ ; Madeas, Nilgiris (Hampson),2 $. Exp. 

 46-54 millim. 



7558. Anna alticola, n. sp. (Plate CCXIV. fig. 7.) 



S . Head and thorax white tinged with rufous ; palpi, frons, 

 antennae, and the tibise and tarsi grey-brown ; abdomen whitish 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing pale brownish grey sparsely irro- 

 rated with black, the terminal area suffused with rufous ; antemedial 

 line white, obliquely curved; a black point in middle of cell; 



