506 KOCTUID^, 



double nearly straight oblique, brown line beyond it ; renifonn 

 very narrow, faintly defined by brown and with black points at its 

 upper and lower extremities ; medial line double, waved, excurved 

 beyond the cell, then incurved ; postmedial line dark, very oblique, 

 slightly sinuous and defined by white on outer side from costa 

 to vein 6 where it has a small dark mark beyond it and is met by 

 an oblique blue-wliite shade from apex, then strongly incurved, 

 dentate and with traces of a line beyond it ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale, waved, faintly defined on each side by brown 

 suff'usiou and arising below vein 6 ; a series of black and white 

 points just before termen ; cilia with some dark brown at tips. 

 Hind wing red-brown with an oblique black-brown shade before 

 the bright yelloAV apical patch whicli ends at vein 4 and extends 

 on costal area to near middle ; a waved dark line before termen 

 from vein 4 to near tornus. Underside of fore wing black-bi'own, 

 the costa and apical area red-brown irrorated with white, a 

 broad oblique, yellow band from below middle of costa to tornus ; 

 hind wing pale red-brown irrorated with dark brown and on costal 

 area with some whitish, two dark slightly waved medial lines and 

 a pale subterminal line incurved below costa. 



Ab. 1. Eore wing with the basal and terminal areas browner, 

 the white medial area bright sap-green with some white suffusion 

 before the apical patch which is deep chocolate-brown. 



Ab. 2. Eore wing browner, the area between the outer of the 

 two lines beyond the antemedial line and the medial line pale 

 green becoming whitish towards costa, the patch on apical part of 

 costa bright rufous, dark at apex. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing almost uniform red-brown with the markings 

 obsolescent, the area between the outer of the two lines beyond 

 the aniiemedial and the medial line nearly pure white. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing red-brown with lunulate white spots beyond 

 the medial line above and below vein 3. 



Ab. 5. Similar but fore wing with the ground-colour greenish 

 grej'. 



Hah. LoRBMgo Marques, Delagoa Bay in Coll. Druce ; Natal, 1 5 

 type brynxantlia ; Madagascar in Coll. Kenrick. Ex]). 68-72 millim. 



7628. Achssa poliopasta, n. sp. (Plate CCXVII. fig. 8.) 



5 , Head and thorax black-brown very slightly irrorated with 

 whitish scales : tarsi slightly ringed with ochreous brown ; abdomen 

 dark brown. Fore wing black-brown irrorated with a few blue- 

 white scales, the medial area suffused Avith blue-white except at 

 costa and inner margin ; an oblique blackish subbasal band from 

 costa to vein 1; antemedial line indistinct, faintly defined.on inner 

 side by blue-white scales, somewhat oblique, waved ; reniform 

 faintly defined by blackish and with black points at its upper and 

 lower extremities, narrow, its outer edge irregular ; a slight dark 

 medial line excurved beyond the cell and incurved at discal fold ; 

 postmedial line double, filled in with blue-\Ahite and at costa with 



