526 XOCTUID.'E. 



side by ochrcous, slightly angled outwards below vein 6, then 

 obliquely incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, pale faintly defined 

 on inner side by brown, slightly waved towards costa and incurved 

 below vein 3 : a series of black points before termen ; cilia red- 

 brown. Hind wing brownish oehreous, the basal and inner areas 

 suffused with grey-brown ; an ill-defiued oblique brownish oehreous 

 band from middle of costa to tornus ; a large fuscous black sub- 

 terminal patch from costa to vein 3 with an oehreous spot on it 

 at apex ; the termen and cilia oehreous towards apex ; a series of 

 black points before termen. Underside brownish oehreous slightly 

 irrorated with black ; fore wing with blackish discoidal bar and 

 slightly curved postmedial line with diffused black patch before and 

 beyond it between vein 5 and submedian fold ; hind wing with slight 

 discoidal point, two curved postmedial lines, and a subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with blackish. 



Hah. SiERKA, Leoxi? {Clements), 1 S '-^ Gold Coast, Cape Coast 

 Castle {Higletl), 1 5 ; S. Nigeria, Old Calabar (Cochhurn, Samp- 

 son), 1 J,'l ^ , Ilesha (Humfreij), 1 c? . E.vj}. 60-GS millim. 



7656. Achsea^ indeterminata. (Plate CCXVIII. fig. 3.) 



Ophisma indetermivata, Wlk. xxxiii. 955 (ISfiS). 



Ophhnia demfa, Moscbl. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. p. 305, pi. 16. 

 f. 20(1833). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing pale rufous 

 with a faint greyish tinge, the postmedial area with a red-bi'own 

 shade ; antemedial line indistinct, brown, slightly incurved ; two 

 blackish discoidal points ; postmedial line brown, faintly defined 

 on outer side by whitish, excurved below costa, then obliquely 

 incurved ; traces of a waved subterminal line defining the outer 

 edge of the red-brown area ; a series of blackish points before 

 termen. Hind wing brownish oehreous ; a faint oblique dark 

 postmedial line ; a blackish subterminal shade, expanding to apex 

 and narrowing to tornus ; a series of minute black points before 

 termen. Underside oehreous, the terminal areas tinged with red- 

 brown ; fore wing with greyish discoidal bar and postmedial line 

 excurved below costa and with greyish fuscous patch beyond it at 

 middle ; hind wing with slight discoidal point, indistinct curved 

 medial line, and double postmedial line. 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt {Hutclihison), 1 cj' , 1 5 ? Durban (Gooch, 

 Lngh, Clark), 2 cT , 3 $ ; Cape Colony, Caffraria. E.vp. 54-58 

 millim. 



Larva. FawceU, Tr Zool. See. xvii. p. 18.3, pi. viii. ff. 15, 16. 



Pale yellow with numerous lines formed of pale striae, the 

 thoracic somites with dorsal stripe formed of brown strije, the 1st 

 somite with black reticulations in front; 4th and 5th somites with 

 doi\sal patches of black strisie ; 11th somite with pair of small black- 

 tipped prominences ; a subdorsal series of black points ; stigmata 

 brown ; subventral stripes of reticular brown striae ; thoracic somites 

 with ventral brown stripe: head reticulated with black. 



