448 



NOCTUIDJ!;. 



Underside white with faint brown postmedial line, the terminal 

 area suffused with brown; fore wing with slight discoidal lunule. 



Hah. Transvaal, Piet lletief (Crawshai/), 1 S , Johannesburg 

 (Ross, Orec/oe), 3 c? , 1 $ type, Pretoria (ZutrencJca), 1 § . Ex2->. 

 40-48 millim. 



7571. Anua melaconisia. (Plate CCXV. fig. 10.) 



Ophiusa melaconisia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. iii. p. 431 (1905). 



S . Head and thorax clothed with grey and brown scales with, 

 some large black scales mixed ; abdomen grey irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing grey very thickly and finely striated with 

 brown and irrorated with some large black-tipped white scales ; 

 the veins white ; subbasal line white, oblique, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line white defined by brown on inner side, 

 oblique, sliglitly oxcurved below costa ; orbicular and reniform 

 elliptical, black defined by white ; postmedial line white defined 

 by brown on outer side, excurved from just below costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved and slightly excurved above inner margin ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish defined on each side by red-brown, some 

 black marks on its inner side below costa, slightly excurved below 

 vein 7, then nearly straight ; a fine crenulate red-brown line just 

 before termen ; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 ochreous suffused with brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous; a dark terminal line; cilia pale. Underside whitish., the 

 terminal areas suffused with fuscous ; fore wing with, the dark 

 orbicular and reniform showing. 



Bah. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Z>o6/n'«),l citype. Elrp. 46 millini. 



7572, Anua trapezium. (Plate CCXV. fig. 11.) 



Ophiodes trapezium, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 231 (1852); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 



ii. p. 604. 

 Ophisma cognata, Wlk. xxxiii. 958 (1865). 

 O'phiusa kehea, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 255 (1906). 



Head and thorax ochreous suffused with rufous ; palpi brown, 

 whitish in front ; frons rufous ; antennae bi'own, the basal joint 

 white in front; tibige and tarsi grey-brown; abdomen ochreous 

 tinged with rufous. Poro wing greenish ochreous tinged with 

 rufous and slightly irrorated with black, the terminal area red- 

 brown ; antemedial line fine, red-brown, oblique ; a dark point in 

 middle of cell ; reniform rufous defined by brown and with brown 

 striga in centre, constricted at middle ; postmedial line fine, red- 

 brown, excurved to vein 4, then oblique to inner margin near the 

 antemedial line ; a rufous streak on inner margin ; subterminal 

 line double, brown, oblique ; a faint waved brown line just before 

 termen. Hind wing ochreous tinged with brown ; a broad fuscous 

 subterminal band ; a waved brown line just before termen ; cilia 



