532 N0CTUID.1!;. 



pale brown mixed with whitish. Fore wing rufous mixed with 

 yellowish and with somewhat yellower patches on inner postraedial 

 area and terminal area below apex, the costal area greyish ; an 

 indistinct obliquely carved waved dark antemedial line ; a nearly 

 straight somewhat diffused dark medial line; postmedial line 

 indistinct, double, minutely waved, excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved, the lines widely separated ; traces of a double 

 waved subterminal line ; a series of dark points before termen on 

 slight yellowish marks. Hind wing dark brown, the termen 

 greyish ; the underside brown suffused with grey, an indistinct 

 dark curved postmedial line and double subterminal line. 



c? . Fore wing with some white suffusion on costal area towards 

 apex ; hind wing with the termen reddish ochreous. 



Ilah. S. Nigeria, Ilesha {Humfrey), 1 S ; Gaboon, Ogove 11., 

 type t $ in Coll. Holland. Exp. 48 millim. 



Sect. III. Mid tibiae of male not dilated and without groove containing a 

 tuft of hair. 



A. (Ackcsa.) Hind tarsi of male with the 1st joint fringed 

 with hair above. 



a. Fore wing with the antemedial line obliqne and incurved 



from costa to inner margin lienardi. 



b. Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique to submedian 



fold and angled inwards at vein 1 catella. 



c. Fore wing witli the antemedial line oblique and sinuous 



throughout, 

 a'. Fore wing with black streaks before the postmedial 



line in the interspaces between veins 7 and 2 cBcUpodina. 



i". Fore wing without black streaks before the postmedial 



line oneUcerfa. 



7666. Achsea lienardi. 



Ophmsa lienardi, Eoisd. Faun. Ent. Madag., Lep. p. 102, pi. 15. f. .5 

 (1833) ; Holl. Ent. News Philad. v. p. 59, pi. ii. f. 4. 



Achcea chammleon, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 249 (1852). 



Ophiiisa cerbei^a, Gnen. Noct. iii. p. 250 (1852). 



Ophiusa zahulon, Gnen. Noct. iii. p. 250 (1852). 



Achcea spedatura, Wlk. xiv. 1393 (1858). 



Achcsa ophismoides, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 357 (1873). 



Achcsa partita, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 358, pi. G. f. 8 

 (1873). 



AchcBa hilaris, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 299 (1880). 



AchcBo, locra, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 299 (1880). 



{zahulon). Head and thorax red-brown ; abdomen greyish 

 brown, the ventral surface irrorated with whitish. Fore wing 

 red-brown ; a slight sinuous brown subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, almost 

 straight ; a black point in middle of cell and two diseoidal points ; 

 a faint rather diffused medial line, slightly excurved beyond the 

 cell, then incurved; postmedial line dark faintly defined on outer 

 side by whitish, dentate, oblique to vein 6 and incurved below 



