534- NocTUiDJi:. 



{Neave), 1 S , Blantyre (Neave), 1 6 , Chiromo (Neave), 1 6 ; Mozam- 

 bique, Beira {Sluppard), 1 5 ; Lorenco Marques, Delagoa Bay 

 (Mnir), 1 $ ; Mashonaland, Umtali {Marshall), 2 J ; Transvaal 

 (Marshall). 1 J, Lydenburg, 1 $ ; Natal {Marshall), I J, 

 Estcourt {Hutchinso)i), '6 $, Durban {Gueinzius, Trimeii, Distant, 

 Jioss, Leigh, Meade- Waldo), 7 c? , 6 $ type spectatura ; Cape 

 Colony {tSir A. Smith), 2 d , 1 ? , Grahamstown ( Wilde), 1 cj , 

 E. London {Cohen), 1 cJ ; Madagascar, ^.r^:>. 46-68 millim. 



7667. Ach^a catella. (Plate CCXVIIl. fig. 16.) 



Achma catella, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 247 (1852). 



Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with whitish ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen pale grey-brown. Eore wing grey-brown irrorated 

 Avith blackish ; subbasal line dark brown, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold; antemcdial line fine, blackish, oblique, waved; 

 postmedial line fine, black, minutely waved and with slight black 

 streaks before it in the interspaces between veins 7 and 2, in- 

 distinctly double except towards costa, oblique to vein 6 towards 

 subterminal line, then curved, and incurved below vein 3 ; a faint 

 oblique dark streak from apex to the postmedial line at vein 6 ; 

 a faint minutely waved whitish subterminal line, excurved at 

 vein 7 ; a slight waved blackish terminal line with points at the 

 interspaces ; cilia with fine whitish line at base followed by a 

 blackish line, the tips reddish brown. Hind wing grey-brown to 

 the narrow oblique bluish white baud from below middle of costa 

 to above inner margin towards tornus ; the rest of wing fuscous 

 black with small white spot at apex, larger spot on termen at 

 discal fold and oblique bar from vein 2 to termen at vein 1 ; cilia 

 white with dark line near base towards apex and at middle, the 

 tips reddish brown at middle. Underside grey irrorated with 

 brown; fore wing with white postmedial band between veins 6 

 and 2 with black suffusion before, below and beyond it ; hind wing 

 with curved postmedial line and minutely w^aved subterminal line 

 with some dark suffusion before it and a blackish patch above 

 tornus. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial areas tinged 

 with rufous. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with blackish suffusion before the ante- and 

 postmedial lines. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with the inner half of medial area whitish. 



Hah. St. Helena {Wollaston), 1 J, 1 $; S. Nigeria, Leaba 

 {Christu), 1 c?; Congo {Marsden), 1 $; Nubia, Khor Ambukal 

 ( Wood-Jones), 1 2 ', Suuan, Suakim {B. Fletcher), 1 $ , Port 

 Sudan {Mrs. Waterfield), 2 c? , 5 $ , White Nile, Gabt el Meghahid 

 {Dunn), 1 c?, 2 $; Abyssinia, A tbara {Gerrard), 1 5; Eritrea 

 {Barker), 1 $ ; Aden {Yerhnry, Mathew, Meade-Waldo), 2 c? , 

 2 2 ; S.W. Arabia, El Kubar {Bwy), 1 $ ; Sokotra, Hadibu 

 Plain {0. Grant), 1 c? .■ 1 ? 5 Br. E. Africa, Taveta {Rorjers), 1 $ , 



