OPnisMA. 541 



below apex to discal fold, then erect, a brownish tinge be3'0nd it. 

 Hind wing pale yellow ; obliquely curved antemedial and medial 

 lines sometimes present ; a postmedial fuscous mark below costa 

 with line from it to tornus ; a blackish apical patch with diffused 

 line from it to tornus, the area beyond it whitish ; the underside 

 white irrorated with brown, a black discoid al point, indistinct 

 medial and postmedial lines and minutely waved whitish sub- 

 terminal line incurved below costa. 



Hah. K.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa District {Neave), 2 c? , 1 5 

 type. Exj). 54 millim. 



7673. Ophisma cuprizonea, u. sp. (Plate CCXIX. fig. 1 .) 



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

 grey-brown, the tarsi ochreous. Fore wing red-brown, the area 

 between the postmedial and subterminal lines cupreous red ; ante- 

 medial line brown, very slightly defined by blue-grey scales, oblique 

 and almost straight ; two dark discoidal points on a faint greyish 

 bar; postmedial line indistinct, double, brown, waved, excurved 

 below costa, then somewhat oblique, and excurved to inner margin ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, brown, waved, defining the outer edge 

 of the red area ; a series of black and white points just before 

 termen ; cilia white mixed with brown and with fine dark lines at 

 base and near tips, wholly brown at tornus. Hind wing greyish 

 bTown ; a fine white terminal line with points at the interspaces ; 

 cilia white mixed with brown and with fine dark lines at base and 

 near tips ; the underside brown thickly irrorated with white, the 

 terminal area browner except towards tornus, a dark postmedial 

 line excurved below costa, then oblique, a subterminal series of 

 slight whitish spots. 



S . Slightly darker ; fore wing with some white scales on inner 

 edge of the subterminal line below costa and between veins 3 and 1. 

 Hub. Madagascar, Betsileo (Cotvan)^ 1 $ type, c5' in Coll. 

 Kenrick. Ewjy. 48 millim. 



Sect. II. Mid tibisE of male not dilated and without groove and fringe of 

 scales, the hind tarsi with the 1st joint not fringed with hair above. 



A. Hind wing ochreous. 



a. Fore wing without antemedial line. 



a^. Fore wing with rather oblique straight medial line ... gravata. 



h^. Fore wing without medial line pallens. 



h. Fore wing with indistinct dark antemedial line teierrima. 



B. Hind wing brown. 



a. Hind wing with the terminal area ochreous brown hasigutta. 



h. Hind wing with the terminal area not ochreous brown. 

 a^. Fore wing with straight and somewhat oblique medial 

 line. 



a2. Size large, 50-68 millim tropicalis. 



Ifi. Size small, 40-44 millim varicda. 



