500 



NOCTUIDJE. 



tuft of white scales below base of cell ; a curved dark subbasal 

 striga from costa ; aiitemedial line blackish, oblique, straight ; 

 reniform defined by blackish, very narrow ; a slight dark waved 

 medial line excurved beyond the cell, then incurved ; postmedial 

 line blackish, dentate, oblique to vein 6 with a white patch beyond 

 it irrorated with rufous and traversed by slight dark streaks on the 

 veins and by the double dentate red-brown subterminal Hue, the 

 postmedial line incurved below vein 4 and strongly incurved in 

 submedian interspace where there is a white spot beyond it 

 followed by a dentate yellowish white line with minute white spots 

 above and below its extremities, a dark shade beyond the postmedial 



Fig. 120. — Achcsa illustrata, ^ . 



line ; a faint waved dark line just before termen with minute white 

 points at the interspaces. Hind wing grey-brown, the terminal 

 half fuscous except towards tornus ; a white spot at apex and the 

 termen and cilia white between veins 7 and 4. Underside grey 

 irrorated with brown : fore wing with the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous, a dark discoidal bar, postmedial line oblique below 

 vein 6 and incurved at submedian fold, a white patch beyond it on 

 costal area tinged with rufous and with slight dentate rufous marks 

 on it, and a diffused white patch on inner area ; hind wing with 

 dark discoidal point, postmedial line incurved below discal fold, 

 and faint maculate whitish subterminal line. 



Hah. SiEERA Leone (Mor(/an, Clements), 3 J type. £^.rj>. 70- 

 72 millim. 



