518 NOCTtJID.E. 



beyond it on costa ; au indistinct dark subfcerminal line angled 

 outwards at vein 7 ; terminal area deep rufous ; cilia grey-brown, 

 wbitish at tips except towards tornus. Hind wing dark grey-brown, 

 the terminal area black-brown except towards torniis ; an apical 

 creamy white patch emitting a yellowish white line just before 

 termen to vein 4 ; cilia grey-brown, whitish on apical area. Under- 

 side of fore wing grey-brown, a sinuous whitish band from end of 

 cell to tornus with a large patch of fuscous black suffusion beyond 

 it, the terminal area grey-white except towards tornus ; hind wing 

 grey thickly irrorated with blackish, a slight medial lino from costa 

 to vein 4, postmedial line ending at submediau fold, and slightly 

 waved grey subterminal line defined on each side by fuscous 

 suffusion. 



Hah. Cextr. Madagascar (Pratt), in Coll. Kenrick. Ex2'>. 62 

 millim. 



7644. Acliaea imperatrix. 



Ophisma impe.ratrix, Saaliu. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 214 ; id. Lep. Madag. 

 p. 4(51, f. 131 (1891). 



5 . Head and thorax brownish white ; abdomen glossy brownish 

 grey. Pore wing glossy brownish grey ; a small tuft of jmre white 

 scales below base of cell followed by a point in cell before the 

 slight curved brown subbasal line from costa to median nervure ; 

 antemedial line slight, rufous, oblique, waved, with some rufous 

 suffusion before it in and below the cell ; a dark point in middle of 

 cell ; two small red-brown discoidal annuli filled in with rufous ; 

 traces of a faint waved medial line excurved beyond the cell, then 

 incurved; postmedial line red-brown, crenulate, defined on outer 

 side by pure white lunulos with rufous irroration on their outer side 

 and with some rufous striation beyond them towards inner margin, 

 oblique to vein 6 where it is met by an oblique series of four white 

 spots from just below costa near apex with some rufous irroration on 

 their inner side, the spot above vein 7 bidentate and the two series of 

 spots forming a conical patch, the postmedial line inwardly oblique 

 below vein 6 ; a series of black points before termen, the termen 

 whitish. Hind wing grey, the terminal area broadly blackish 

 defined on inner side by a slight oblique white bar between veins 5 

 and 2 ; a small white patch at apex and traces of a carved whitish 

 line from vein 4 to termen at vein 1 ; termen narrowly whitish 

 from below apex to vein ] ; cilia white tinged with brown. 

 Underside grey irrorated with brown ; fore wing with some fuscous 

 suffusion in submedian interspace and at middle of subterminal area, 

 a blackish discoidal lunule, conical whitish patch irrorated with 

 brown on costa towards apex and some white beyond the discoidal 

 lunule and on inner area beyond the medial line ; hind wing with 

 slight discoidal spot, waved medial and postmedial lines, double 

 subterminal line and series of points before termen. 

 Hah. Madagascae [Pealce), 1 $ . Exp. 84 millim. 



