482 



NOCTUID.E. 



large oblique U-shaped black mark defined by rufous below end of 

 cell ; postmedial line formed of black spots and striae defined bj' 

 rufous on inner side, slightly bent outwards below cosia, oblique 

 to vein 5, cxcurved to vein 3, then oblique and sinuous, another 

 maculate black line beyond it except towards costa, confluent with 

 the rufous subterminal band excurved at middle, and with some 

 rufous points before it on costa ; the veins of terminal area 



Fig. 114. — Catephiodes oneeci, 5 . t- 



streaked with black ; a fine waved black terminal line ; cilia with 

 some rufous at base. Hind wing white, the inner margin and a 

 terminal band black-brown, the latter expanding very broadly on 

 apical area ; the underside with the brown diiFused along costa to 

 near base. 



Hah. Br. jST, Guinea, Aroa R. {Meek), type t $ in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 56 millim. 



Genus ERCHEIA. 

 Ercheia, Wlk. xiii. 1107 (1857) 



Type. _ 

 diversipenms. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd long and somewhat dilated at 

 extremity ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennas 

 of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without 

 crests ; tibiiE moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibite not spined, the 

 hind tibi£e spined ; abdomen with large spreading crest on basal segment and 

 some rough hair on two following segments. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen typically evenly curved and highly crenulate, the inner 

 margin somewhat lobed before middle; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from apper angle ; 9 from 10 anastoniosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from 

 angle; b fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



