508 NOCXUIDTE. 



white, an oblique yellow band from end of cell to toruus ; hind 

 wing with some j^ellowish irroration and white on costal and 

 terminal areas, indistinct medial, postmedial, and subterminal lines, 

 the last waved and defined on outer side by yellowish, a series of 

 black points before termen. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the outer part of medial area tinged with 

 bluish green and without the white spots above and below vein 3, 

 the black-brown beyond medial part of postmedial line reduced 

 to spots above and below vein 3. 



Ab. 2. Similar, but fore wing with the outer part of medial area 

 red-brown without violaceous or green suffusion. 



Hab. Madagascar, Colls. Druce and Kenrick. Exii. 68-72 

 millim. 



7630. Achsea intercisa. (Plate CCXVII. fig. 9.) 



Ach(sa intercisa, Wlk. xxxiii. 960 (1865). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the patagia with some 

 whitish at base ; palpi ochreous white in front; frons with whitish 

 streaks at sides ; a whitish ring behind the eyes ; pectus and legs 

 grey-brown, the tibise and tarsi irrorated with ochreous. Fore 

 wing with the basal area deep chocolate-brown, the rest of wing 

 ochreous suffused with rufous and irrorated with dark brown, a 

 large deep chocolate-brown patch on apical part of costal area ; 

 subbasal line whitish, double towards costa, very oblique to the 

 antemedial line at vein 1 ; the median nervure beyond it streaked 

 with whitish and vein 1 whitish on basal area ; antemedial line 

 whitish defined on outer side by black forming a small patch at 

 costa, oblique towards costa, minutely waved in cell, acutely angled 

 inwards on median nervure and vein 1 and excurved in submedian 

 fold ; reniform whitish defined by blackish and with black points at 

 upper and lower extremities, very narrow, a small brown luuule 

 above it from costa; postmedial line blackish slightly defined on 

 outer side by white, slightly sinuous, oblique to vein 5, then 

 obliquely curved to tornus, a small wedge-shaped black spot beyond 

 it below vein 5 ; the large dark patch on apical part of costa 

 extending to vein 5, just beyond the postmedial line, some minute 

 whitish points on it at costa ; subterminal line represented by a 

 fine oblique slightly sinuous whitish line on the dark patch ; a 

 series of black points just before termen ; cilia with a whitish line 

 at base. Hind, wing fuscous brown ; a large apical yellow patch 

 narrowing to a point below vein 4, then the termen red-brown to 

 vein 1. Underside dark brown ; fore wing with a broad oblique 

 yellow band from below middle of costa to tornus, diffused on 

 inner side, a brown diseoidal lunule on it and the obliquely curved 

 jjostmedial line near its outer edge towards costa, a terminal yellow 

 band except towards tornus, its inner edge angled inwards at 

 discal fold ; hind wing with slight diseoidal striga, two oblique 

 minutely waved postmedial lines, the yellow terminal area extending 



