530 NOCTTTID^. 



curved medial and postmedial line?, and slight waved whitish 

 subterminal line with some brown suffusion before it. 



Hah. Uganda, Ruweuzori (WoUaston), 1 5 ; Angola, liengella 

 (Bergman), 1 $ ; Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 1 S ; Trans- 

 vaal (Ross), 2 2, Piet Eetief (Crawshay), 1 c? , 19, Pretoria 

 (Distant), 1 6, 2 2 type pretorice, Johannesburg (OlarJc), 1 S, 

 Potchefstroom, 1 J ; Natal, Newcastle, 1 $ , Durban (Leir/7i, Clark), 

 2 2 > Bastttoland, Maseru (CrawsJiay), 2 (S ; Cape Colony, Diel- 

 fontein (Sloggett), 1 cJ, Transkei (Aliss F. Barrett), 1 c? , 1 $ • 

 Kvp. 54-60 millim. 



7662. Achsea thermopera, n. sp. (Plate CCXVIII. fig. 12.) 



$ . Head and thorax pale red-brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 grev-brown. Pore wing grey-brown tinged with red-brown and 

 irrorated with fuscous, a semi-elliptical chocolate-brown patch 

 on apical part of costa ; a rather oblique sinuous dark antemedial 

 line ; a small indistinct blackish annulus in upper part of middle 

 of cell ; rcniform indistinctly defined by blackish, small with 

 irregular outline, an oblique dark shade from it to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, dark, crenulate, oblique to vein 6 and 

 incurved below vein 4; some pale points on costa on the chocolate 

 patch ; an indistinct waved red-brown subterminal line from 

 vein 4 to inner margin ; a series of black and whitish points just 

 before termen. Hind wing grey-brown ; the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous except towards tornus ; a slightly waved reddish 

 brown subterminal line and some reddish brown on termen except 

 towards costa ; a slight whitish patch on costa just before apex ; 

 cilia with a fine pale line at base and whitish patch at discal fold. 

 Underside grey-brown ; fore wing with diffused white postmedial 

 band except at costa with blackish suffusion before and beyondit. 



Ilab. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar (Coclhurn), 1 $ type. Exp. 60 

 millim. 



7663. Achsea phseobasis, n. sp. (Plate CCXVIII. fig. 13.) 



Head and thorax grey-brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen pale 

 grey-brown. Fore wing pale grey-brown irrorated with dark 

 brown, the basal area suffused with blackish brown, its outer edge 

 somewhat oblique and sinuous ; a black point in middle of cell ; 

 a slight brown discoidal lunule with black points above and below 

 and on its inner edge ; postmedial line slight, dark, oblique to 

 vein 6, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, a conical patch of 

 black-brown suffusion beyond it on costal area with some pale 

 points on costa ; subterminal line dark, diffused, oxcurved below 

 vein 7, then oblique ; a series of blackish points before termen ; a 

 fine dark terminal line and dark line at middle of cilia. Hind 

 wing grey-brown with an indistinct diffused dark subterminal 

 shade. Underside of fore wing with dark discoidal spot, a white 

 band beyond it from below costa to tornus, its inner edge bent 



