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NOCTUID^. 



irrorated with brown ; fore wing with white band with sinuous 

 edges from below middle of costa to tornus, with an oblique dark 

 discoidal striga on it, the postmedial patch as above ; hind wing 

 with curved postmedial line and indistinct waved subterminal line 

 with slight whitish spots bej'ond it. 



Eah. Geem. E. Apeica, Ituraba, Kongwa {Wood), 1 $; N.E. 

 IIhodesia, Loangwa K. {Neave), 1 S type. Exp. 70 millim. 



c. Hind wing of male with a minute corneous hook at base of median 

 nervui'e on underside and minute corneous plate below costa (?) acted 

 on by spines of the dilated mid tibia3, the males making a sound like 

 a grasshopper during flight. 



7H2G. Achsea mormoides. 



Achea mormoides, Wlk. xiy. 1393 (1858). 



AcJima mania, Feld. Reis. Kov. pi. 116. f. 16 (1874). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown ; tarsi with slight pale 

 segmental rings. Fore wing grey-brown, the basal and postmedial 

 areas somewhat darker, the medial area irrorated with blackish ; 

 a slight sinuous blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian 



Ackcea mormoides, cJ . 



fold; antemedial line indistinctly' double, inwardly oblique, straight ; 

 a minute black spot at upper angle of cell and larger spot at lower 

 angle connected by two striae ; medial line slight, blackish, minutely 

 waved, excurved beyond the cell, then incurved ; postmedial line 

 blackish, minutely dentate, oblique to vein 6 and incurved below 



