ACH-EA. 519 



'6-^5. Achaea maljilli. 



Ophisma mabillii, Saalm. Pet. Noiiv. Ent. ii. p. 297 (1870); id. Lep. 

 Madag. p. 463, f. 212. 



c? . Head and thorax reddish brown ; palpi, pectus, legs and 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing brown with a faint cupreous 

 gloss ; a small tuft of white scales below base of cell ; a faint dark 

 antemedial line, slightly excurved below costa, then oblique ; 

 traces of a dark discoidal striga ; postmedial line faint, dark, 

 waved, oblique to vein 6 with a conical white patch beyond it 

 irrorated witli rufous and traversed by slight dark streaks on tho 

 veins and the dentate subterrainal line forming a dark mark at 

 costa with two white points on it, the postmedial line inwardly 

 oblique below vein 6 and faintly defined on outer side by rufous, 

 incurved in submedian interspace where there is a while spot 

 beyond it with a waved rufous line near its outer edge with small 

 white spots above and below it; a faint waved dark line just before 

 termen. Hind wing grey-brown, the terminal area fuscous except 

 towards tornus ; a small white spot at apex and the termen and 

 cilia white from vein 7 to below 5. Underside bluish grey ; fore 

 wing with the terminal area suffused with fuscous brown, a bluish 

 white patch at end of cell with the dark discoidal striga on it and 

 a white patch from below it to tornus, tlie costal patch reddish 

 yellow; hind wing irrorated with brown, traces of a curved 

 postmedial line, a waved line just before termen. 



Nab. Sierra Leone, Freetown (Siiiith), 1 c? ; Bk. E. Africa, 

 'Njoro (Choi mie I/), I c5' ; Natal, Durban (Ze/f/Zz), 1 (^ ; Madagascar, 

 ]S'ossi-Be. Exp. 66 millim. 



*764G. Acli^a orthogramma. (Plate CCXVIII. fig. 7.) 



Ophiodes orthogramirM, Mab. Bull. Soc. Pbiloni. (7) iii. p. 140(1879). 

 Achcea sarcopccsa, Drut'e, A. M. N. H. (8) ix. p. 553 (1912). 



S . Head and thorax pale yellow tinged with rufous ; pectus and 

 legs yellow tinged with white; abdomen pale yellow dorsally suffused 

 with rufous except at base, the anal tuft whitish. Fore wing pale 

 yellow tinged with rufous ; subbasal line white slightly defined on 

 inner side by grey, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line white 

 defined on inner side by grey, oblique, straight ; a small fuscous 

 annulus at upper angle of cell with slight lunule from it to lower 

 angle ; a faint oblique dark medial line just beyond the cell, 

 slightly excurved beyond lower angle ; postmedial line white 

 defined on inner side by grey, oblique to submedian fold, then erect, 

 the area beyond it pale rufous leaving the terminal area grey from 

 below apex to submedian fold ; a pale waved subterminal line with 

 slight fuscous suffusion beyond it above middle and towards tornus and 

 before it below middle, oblique towards costa and slightly excurved 

 at middle ; cilia grey with a dark line near base. Hind wing pale 

 yellow, the inner area tinged with rufous ; a rather diffused yellow 



