ACHJEA. 529 



7660. Achsea diplographa, n. sp. (Plate CCXVIII. fig. 5.) 



5 . Head and thorax dull rufous ; palpi, antennae, pectus, legs 

 and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing dull rufous suffused in parts 

 with grey-brown, a minute tuft of scales tipped with white below 

 base of cell ; an indistinct curved subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line double and filled in with grey-brown, 

 waved and obliquely curved ; a black point in middle of cell ; 

 reniform small, faintly defined and with some black points on its 

 edges ; medial line indistinctly double, waved, excurved to vein 4 

 beyond the cell, then incurved ; postmedial line indistinctly double, 

 waved, curved, some ochreous points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line rather diffused, dark, waved ; terminal area rather 

 darker and with faint pale striae ; a series of minute blackish 

 l^oints before termen ; a fine dark terminal line and pale line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing grey-brown ; a faint obliquely curved 

 narrow greyish band from middle of costa to above tornus ; 

 terminal area fuscous from costa to vein 2, the termen slightly 

 grey towards apex and a fine dark terminal line from apex to 

 vein 2 ; cilia whitish at base towards apex. Underside grey 

 suffused with brown ; fore wing with indistinct dark discoidal spot 

 with some whitish beyond it and curved postmedial line ; hind 

 wing with slight discoidal striga and curved medial and postmedial 

 lines. 



Hah. Comoro Is., Mayotta {Meade-Waldo), 1 5 type. Exp. 52 

 millim. 



7661. Achsea sordida. (Plate CCXYIII. fig. 6.) 



Ophisma sordida, Wlk. xxxiii. 955 (1865). 



OjMsina -pretorice, Distant, Naturalist in Transvaal, p. 239, pi. ii. f. 7 

 (1897). 



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

 brown ; a small tuft of white-tipped scales below base of cell ; 

 antemedial line dark faintly defined on outer side by greyish, 

 oblique, waved ; a faint ochreous brown discoidal bar with black 

 points above and below ; medial line double, waved, excurved 

 from costa to vein 4 beyond the cell, then incurved ; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double, dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 the terminal area slightly darker with traces of a dark line before 

 termen ; cilia with fine pale lines at base and middle. Hind wing 

 grey-brown, the terminal area tinged with fuscous except at 

 tornus ; a faint obliquely curved greyish line from middle of costa 

 to near tornus ; a small whitish patch at apex ; a dark terminal 

 line slightly defined on inner side by blue-grey at middle and by an 

 oblique grey striga in submedian interspace ; cilia with fine pale 

 line at base followed by a dark line. Underside grey-brown ; 

 fore wing with slight dark discoidal bar, slight medial line, and 

 postmedial and subterminal lines with dark suffusion between 

 them except on inner area; hind wing with dark discoidal point, 



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