ANUA. 445 



the shaft whitish on inner side towards base ; tibiae and tarsi gre}*- 

 brown, the fore tarsi white in front; abdomen ochreous white 

 tinged with brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore 

 wing rufous suffused with red-brown and slightly striated wdth 

 blackish, the terminal area tinged with purple-grey ; a subbasal 

 red-brown striga from costa ; autemedial line red-brown, very 

 oblique to submedian fold where it is acutely angled outwards, 

 angled inwards at vein 1 ; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform 

 defined by dark brown, narrow, constricted at middle ; postmodiai 

 line red-brown, oblique to below vein 7, then incurved, excurved 

 at middle and above inner margin, angled inwards at submedian 

 fold where it is connected by two slight sti-eaks with the ante- 

 medial line to which it is also approximated at inner margin, a dark 

 streak beyond it on inner margin ; subterminal line purplish grey 

 defined on each side by blackish and with deep red-brown suffusion 

 before it, excurved below vein 7 and slightly below^ vein 4 ; a crenu- 

 late brown line just before terraen ; cilia dark brown. Hind wing 

 ochreous^white, with a diffused fuscous brown patch on terminal 

 area between veins 7 and 1 and a waved dark terminal line. 

 Underside ochreous white ; fore wing Avith the costal and terminal 

 areas sufi'used with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and fuscous 

 subterminal shade ; hind wing with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown except towards base, the terminal area tinged with brown 

 from apex to vein 2. 



2 . Thorax and fore wing with a slight ochreous tinge. 



Hab. Transvaal, White 11. (Cooke), 1 S ; Natal, Durban 

 (Oueinzlus, Marley), 3 $ type and type amplior ; Comoro Is. 

 E.V2>. 50-54 millim. 



7566. Anua violasceiis. (Plate CCXV. fig. 6.) 

 Ophiusa violascens, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 446 (1902). 



5 . Head, tegulae, and patagia lilacine grey irrorated with a few 

 brown scales ; abdomen pale brownish, the ventral surface white 

 irrorated \\ ith dark brown. Fore wing lilacine grey irrorated with 

 black and suffused with rufous towards the subterminal line ; an 

 oblique waved pale rufous antemedial line defined by white on outer 

 side ; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous, the former a minute 

 annulus, the latter constricted at middle ; postmedial line rufous 

 defined by white on inner side, excurved below costa and at middle, 

 angled inwards in discal and submedian folds ; subterminal line 

 whitish defined by dark rufous on inner side and brownish on outer, 

 incurved below costa, angled outwards at vein 7, then incurved and 

 ending at tornus ; the terminal area greyer with crenulate rufous 

 line just before termen ; cilia blackish except at apex and tornus. 

 Hind wing ochreous brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous; 

 cilia white, brown at middle ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown, the terminal half suffused with brown. 



Hah. Natal, Durl)an (Leigh), 1 $ type. E.vji. 46 millim. 



