510 NOCTUIP.E. 



suffused with purple-grey and with slight dark irroration, the outer 

 part of medial area greyer except towards inner margin ; an in- 

 distinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold: ante- 

 medial line indistinct, double, filled in and defined on outer side by 

 e:rey, oblique, irregularly waved ; three black discoidai points ; two 

 dentate dark postmedial lines, excurved to vein 4, 'then incurved, 

 some pale pointsbeyond them on costa; an indistinct waved dark sub- 

 terminal line defined on outer side by greyish ; a series of blackish 

 points before termen ; cilia pale at tips except towards tornns. 

 Hind wing grey-brown, the apical half black-brown with a large 

 apical yellow patch extending to below vein 5, its inner edge 

 oblique and sinuous; cilia yellow at the patch, then yellowish at 

 tips to vein 2. Underside of fore wing grey-brown irrorated with 

 blackish, a blackish discoidai bar with broad pale yellow band from 

 beyond it to terminal part of inner margin, and blackish suffusion 

 beyond it, a blackish postmedial line from costa to vein 6 ; hind 

 wing grey thickly irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidai spot, 

 medial line excurved below costa, oblique postmedial line and pale 

 subterminal line defined on each side by blackish. 



Bab. CuNTE. Madagascar (Pratt) in Coll, Kenrick, type t d orpci 

 in Coll. Mabille. Exp. 5Q millim. 



7G33. Achsea ezea. 



rhalcsna ezea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 78, pi. 239. f. D (1779). 

 Noctiia hircus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 28 (1794). 

 Achxa leona, Fcld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 116. f. 13 (1874). 



Head and thorax red-brown; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey- 

 brown. Fore wing red-brown with a slight cupreous gloss ; a 

 faint oblique pale subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; anteraedial 

 line brown defined on each side by pale rufous, oblique, sinuous ; a 

 dark point in middle of cell and two discoidai points ; a slight dark 

 dentate medial line, excurved beyond the cell and incurved below 

 it; postmedial line dark, dentate, oblique to vein 6 and incurved 

 below vein 4; a semielliptical pale reddish patch on apical part of 

 costa defined below by dark suffusion and with some pale points on 

 costa ; an indistinct pale subterminal line, incurved below vein 3, 

 the area beyond it suffused with dark brown; cilia fuscous brown 

 with a fine greyish line at base. Hind wing fuscous brown with a 

 yellow patch at apex extending to vein 4 and narrow below vein 6. 

 Underside fuscous brown ; fore wing with diffused pale yellow 

 patch beyond the cell from below the costa to vein 2 and dark dis- 

 coidai striga, the inner area whitish towards tornus, the termen 

 suffused with blue-grey except towards tornus with a series of 

 black points before termen ; hind wing with faint dark postmedial 

 line except towards inner margin, a whitish patch at apex with 

 slight pale subterminal line from it to termen at vein 1. 



Hah. Sierra Leone {Clements), 2 J , 1 $ ; Liberia (Pearce), 1 S ; 

 Gold Coast (Johnston), 2 S , Cape Coast Castle (Higlett), 1 $ , 

 Fort Gorilla, 1 c? , Aburi (Sir G. Carter), 1 S , Bibianaha (Spiirrell), 



