516 NOCTUIDiR, 



Larva. Brownish ochreous thickly irrorated and striated with 

 black, some of the strice forming obscure subdorsal, lateral and 

 stigmata! stripes ; ventral surface ochreous white ; warts with 

 pointed prominences, the 11th somite with more prominent pair of 

 dorsal points ; head reticulated with black. 



7641. Achaa indicahilis. (Plate CCXYII. fig. 18.) 

 Achaa indicahilis, Wlk. xir. 1394 (1858). 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey 

 suffused and irrorated with brown, the terminal area greyer except 

 towards apex ; an obliquely curved deep chocolate-brown subbasal 

 patch from costa to vein 1, its outer edge slightly indented at sub- 

 median fold and faintly defined by whitish, a curved brown line 

 slightly defined by whitish from its lower extremity to inner margin ; 

 a small brown spot with pale point in centre at middle of cell ; 

 reniform defined on inner side by a brown striga, a dark point at 

 its upper extremity and small spot at lower ; medial line brown 

 faintly defined on inner side by whitish except towards costa, 

 strongly excurved beyond the cell, then incurved ; postmedial line 

 slight, brown, waved, oblique towards costa and incurved below 

 vein 6, some minute whitish points beyond it on costa ; the apical 

 area more strongly suffused with brown ; subterminal line black- 

 brown, oblique and downcurved from apex to vein 6, then incurved, 

 double and filled in with yellowish towards tornus ; a series of 

 black points just before termen and a slight brown terminal line ; 

 cilia grey at base, brown at tips. Hind wing grey-brown with a 

 pure Avhite apical patch extending to below vein 5 ; an oblique 

 greyish line from vein 5 to termen at vein 1 and a blackish 

 terminal line from the white patch to vein 1. Underside grey- 

 brown irrorated with brown ; fore wing with brown discoidal spot 

 with whitish shade from it to tornus, a slight postmedial line 

 except on inner area, excurved below costa, a whitish terminal band 

 on apical half, its inner edge excurved below vein 7 ; hind wing 

 with discoidal striga, curved medial line, oblique postmedial line, 

 the terminal whitish band irrorated with brown and extending to 

 vein 1, a series of black points before termen. 



Ilah. SiEERA. Leone {Morgan), 1 $ type ; Gold Coast, Kumasi 

 (McDotvall), 1 5 ; S, Nigeeia, Ilesha {Humfrey), 1 $ , Lokoja 

 {Christ t/), 1 2 ■ Exp. 66-72 millim. 



7642. Achaea mezentia. 



Noctua mezentia, Stoll, Pap. Exot. It. p. 70, pi. 323. f. F (1780) ; Hmpsii. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 494. 

 Achaa reversa, Wlk. xiv. 1399 (1858) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 165, 



pi. 169. ff. 2,2 a. 

 Sypna higcns, Wlk. xsxiii. 938 (1865). 



Head and thorax dull olive-brown slightly irrorated with white ; 



