524 



NOCXtriDJE. 



before it between veins 4 and 2 and beyond it from vein 6 to inner 

 margin ; a series of black poiuts before tornus ; cilia whitisb, 

 fuscous at apex and towards tornus. Hind wing with the basal 

 half whitish tinged with brown bounded by an obliquely curved 

 white medial line defined on inner side by a dark line ; the ter- 

 minal half blackish with white patches on termen at apex, discal 

 and submedian folds. Underside of fore wing with black discoidal 

 bar and curved post medial line from costa to vein 2 with some 

 brown suffusion beyond it towards costa and diffused black patch 

 at middle ; hind wing whitish with some brown suffusion beyond 

 the curved dark postmedial line from costa to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. immunda. Fore wing greyer, the terminal area browner, 

 the markings hardly traceable. 



Hob. Seychelles, Aldabra, type f in Coll. Holland. E.cp. 50 

 millim. 



*7652. Achsea externesignata. 



Oj)hisma externesicfnaia, Saalm.Ber. Senck. Ges. 1880, p. 282; id. Lep. 

 Madag. p. 465, f. 154. 



d . Head and thorax grey-brown ; abdomen brownish grey. 

 Fore wing red-brown tinged with purplish grey especially on 

 medial area ; antemedial line dai'k, angled outwards below costa, 

 then incurved; a black point at lower angle of cell ; medial line 

 dark, waved, excurved beyond the cell, then incurved ; postmedial 

 line dark, dentate, excurved from costa to vein 4, a minute black 

 spot beyond it on inner margin ; subterminal line slight, dark, 

 angled outwards at vein 7, a quadrate black patch before it on 

 costal area. Hind wing blue-grey, the terminal area black, 

 extending on costa to middle, narrowing towards tornus ; white 

 spots at apex and on termen at discal fold. 



Hab. Madagascar, Nossi-Be. Eoej). 52 millim This species is 

 unknown to me. 



*7653. Achsea umbrigera. (Plate CCXVIII. fig. 11.) 



Achcea umbrigera, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1897, p. 224. 



c? . Head and thorax j)ale red-brown; abdomen darker brown. 

 Fore wing pale red-brown tinged with grey and irrorated with 

 blackish, the termen deep red-brown except at apex and towards 

 tornus ; traces of a sinuous dark subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line dark, oblique, slightly sinuous ; a 

 black point in middle of cell ; a rather oblique diffused black-brown 

 medial shade ; postmedial line dark defined on outer side by whitish, 

 oblique and slightly sinuous to vein 6, then incurved, very slightly 

 waved to vein 2 ; traces of a pale sinuous subterminal line ; a series 

 of black points before termen. Hind wing deep red-brown; a 

 narrow oblique ochreous medial band between discal and sub- 

 median folds ; the apical area blackish brown to vein 3, then with 

 oblique band beyond the medial band to tornus ; a small ochreous 

 white spot at apex ; a waved black terminal line ; cilia ochreous 



