478 NocTuiDJ!:. 



5 . Fore wing with the white area mostly suffused with sap- 

 green and irrorated with blackish, the orbicular a round white spot, 

 the reniform red-brown defined by black, small and diamond -shaped, 

 the medial line distinct with a brown patch before it in submedian 

 interspace ; the underside with the postmedial line minutely 

 waved. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing wholly suffused with dark brown, in Coll. 

 Mabille. 



Hah. Sjerra Leone {Mitford), 1 S , Port Lokko (Penny), 1 c? ; 

 Gold Coast, Tarkwa (Justice), 1 d , 2 $ ; S. Nigeeia, Old Calabar, 

 1 J type ; Katal, Howick (Becker), 1 c? , Durban (Leigh), 1 5 ; 

 Cape Colony, Knysna (Newdigate), 1 $ ; Madagascar, 2 J ,Bet8ileo 

 (Coivaa), 1 5 . Exp. 64-80 millim. Type t d" , $ dcedalea in Coll. 

 Mabille ; the wrapper of the volume gives 1879 as the year of 

 publication. 



7603. Tolna complicata. (Plate CCXVI. fig. 8.) 



Sypna complicata, 'Bui\. A. M. N. H. (f.) v. p. 389 (1880); Waterli. Aid, 

 ii. pi. 159. f. 1. 



5 . Head and thorax red-brown and black-brown mixed with 

 ochrcous ; palpi ochreous tinged with red- brown ; pectus and legs 

 brown mixed with grey ; abdomen pale grey-brown, the crests red- 

 dish brown, the ventral surface brown irrorated with white. Fore 

 wing red-brown irrorated and in parts suffused with black-brown 

 and some grej^ ; a small tuft of white scales at base ; subbasal line 

 black slightly defined on each side by whitish, waved, from costa 

 to vein 1 ; antemedial line blackish defined on outer ^ide by white 

 and with white striga before it on costa, oblique, waved ; reniform 

 with dark centre and blackish annulus, defined by white, large and 

 somewhat diamond-sliaped ; a slight ochreous white medial bar in 

 submedian interspace ; postmedial line blackish slightly defined on 

 each side by ochreous white, expanding into a spot defined on each 

 side by white at costa, with ochreous white lunule before it at 

 ,discal fold extending to the reniform, and with white mark before 

 it at inner margin, the line slightly bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, rather oblique to vein 4, then inwardly oblique ; a slight 

 dark shade beyond it and some white poiuts on costa ; subterminal 

 line ochreous white wdth diffused black streaks before it in the inter- 

 spaces, angled outw^ards at vein 7, acutely angled inwards at vein o 

 to near the postmedial line, excurved and slightly waved at middle 

 and angled inwards at submedian fold ; a fine waved black terminal 

 line with small spots at the interspaces ; cilia white at base. Hind 

 wing reddish brown, the terminal area darker; an oblique white 

 bar from vein 2 to tornus ; an indistinct waved dark terminal line ; 

 cilia white with a brown line through them and brown patch at 

 middle ; the underside grey-white thickly irrorated with brown ; 

 both wings with dark discoidal spots, curved minutely waved and 

 rather diffused medial and postmedial lines, diffused subterminal 



