513 



*7637. Achasa lenzi. 



Ophiusa lenzi, Saalm. Stett. Enfc. Zeit. xlii. p. 435 (1881) ; id. Lep. 

 Madag. p. 467, f. 12'J. 



2 . Head and thorax dark brown ; palpi pale reddish brown ; 

 antennae with the basal joint whitish ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 dark brown mixed with greyish, the spurs and tarsi ringed with 

 whitish. Fore wing black-brown ; the basal costal area red-brown 

 with the black subbasal line before its outer edge, excurved below 

 costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line black slightly 

 defined on each side by whitish, very oblique and slightly bent in- 

 wards to inner margin ; an oblique red-brown band mixed with 

 whitish from middle of costa to inner margin towards tornus, two 

 small black spots defined by whitish at angles of cell ; postmedial 

 line black defined on inner side by white and on outer by red- 

 brown and white towards costa, very obliquely incurved; three 

 white points on postmedial part of costa ; terminal area pale red- 

 brown defined on inner side by the slight whitish subterminal line 

 defining the dark area, excurved to near termen below vein 7, in- 

 curved at discal fold, excurved at middle, then incurved ; a series of 

 black points before termen with violaceous white suffusion before 

 them except towards apex. Hind wing greyish fuscous, a white 

 apical spot with the termen white from it to below vein 5, then pale 

 reddish brown with a dark line before it from vein 3 to termen at 

 vein 1 ; a waved blackish line before termen except towards apex ; 

 cilia reddish brown, white on apical area. Underside of fore wing 

 fuscous with some whitish irroration on costa, an oblique whitish 

 medial band from below costa to inner margin, the termen whitish 

 irrorated with brown except towards tornus, cilia whitish at base, 

 red-brown at tips ; hind wing whitish thickly irrorated with brown, 

 an oblique waved medial line, a subterminal line excurved and 

 dentate at middle, a series of black points before termen. 



Hub. Centk. Madagascar (Pratt), in Coll. Kenrick. Kvp. 44 

 millim. 



*7638. Achaea leucopera. (Plate CCXVII. fig. 15.) 



Achcea hucojoera, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) ix. p. 552 (1912). 



c? . Head and thorax bright rufous ; legs brown, the tarsi ringed 

 with white; abdomen brown tinged with leaden grey, the ventral 

 surface red-brown. Fore wing with the basal area deep chocolate- 

 brown with a rufous patch at base of costa and the veins tinged with 

 leaden grey, defined by a whitish line excurved in submedian inter- 

 space ; basal half of medial area greenish white, the outer half pale 

 silveryblue, irrorated with chocolate-brown ; reniform defined by black 

 points above and below and stria? at sides ; medial line indistinctly 

 double, dark, the outer line diffused, dentate, excurved beyond the 

 cell, then incurved ; postmedial line indistinctly double, dark, 

 dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; terminal area red- 



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