444 NOCTUID.?E. 



Ab. 1. Thorax and fore wing redder brown ; bind wing with the 

 basal half whiter. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the antemedial line angled outwards in 

 submedian fold to the postmedial line. 



Ab. 3. Similar in colouring to the female. 



$ . Thorax suffused with chocolate-brown ; fore wing piirple- 

 grej- suffused with chocolate-brown especially before the subterminal 

 line and more strongly irrorated with black. 



Hah. S. NiGEKiA, Old Calabar (Cochbum), 1 $; Mashonaland, 

 Salisbury {Marshall), 1 $ ; Tkansvaal, Lydenburg, 1 cj , White 11. 

 (CooJce), 1 c?; Oeange R. Colont, Bloemfontein (Eckersley), 1 $; 

 Natal, Durban, 1 J ; Bastjxoland, Maseru ( Crawshay), 1 5 ; Cape 

 CoLONr {Sir A. Smith), 1 5 type obJuerens, Transkei {31iss F. 

 Barrett), 2 S • Exp. 44-46 millim. 



7564. Anua dilecta. (PI. CCXV. fig. 4.) 



Ophiusa dilecta, Wlk. xrxiii. 967 (1865). 



Head and thorax ochreous suffused with rufous, the dorsum of 

 thorax and tips of patagia with some black-brown ; palpi red- 

 brown, fringed with ochreous hair in front ; frous and antennae 

 red-brown ; fore and mid tibiae and the tarsi grej^-brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous white, the ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore wing 

 ochreous suffused with rufous and striated with blackish ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, red-brown, oblique from costa to submedian 

 fold, then incurved ; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform 

 defined by blackish, open above and below, small, constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial line red-brown, oblique to below vein 7, then 

 incurved, excurved at middle and above inner margin where it is 

 approximated to the antemedial line, a dark streak beyond it on 

 inner margin ; subterminal line greyish defined on each side by 

 blackish and with red-brown suffusion before it, excurved below 

 vein 7 and slightly below vein 4 ; a series of dark points just before 

 termon •, cilia brown at li^js. Hind wing ochreous white with a 

 diffused fuscous brown subterminal patch between vein 7 and sub- 

 median fold ; a slight waved dark terminal line between veins 4 

 and 2. Underside ochreous white ; fore wing with the costal and 

 terminal areas tinged with brown and with a fuscous subterminal 

 shade ; hind wing with the terminal area tinged with brown from 

 apex to vein 2. 



Hab. SiEEKA Leone (Foxcroft), 1 $ type ; S. Nigeria, Old Cala- 

 bar (Cof/t6Mrn, Sampson), 1 cJ, 1 $; Natal, Durban {Gneinzivs), 

 1 $ . Ex2y. 46-f)0 millim. 



7565. Anna finifascia. (Plate CCXV. fig. 5.) 



Ne2:>helodes Jinifascia, Wlk. xv. 1676 (1858). 

 Aiiua amplior, Wlk. xv. 1789 (1858). 



Pseudophia lilaceofaaciata, Pag, Voeltz. Eeise in Ost-ACrika, ii. p. 115, pi. 6. 

 f. 21 (1907). 



J . Head and thorax deep chocolate red-brown ; antennse with 



