18 NOCTUIDiE. 



7782. Grammodes congenita. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 10.) 



Grammodes congenita, Wlk. xiv. 1443 (1857). 



Grammodes exclusiva, Pag. Reis, in Ost-Afr. ii. p. 121, pi 6. f. 19 (1907). 



Head and thorax brown irrorated with white ; abdomen whitish 

 suffused with brown. Fore wing grey thickly irrorated with brown ; 

 a black subbasal line from costa to median nervure ; a black patch 

 from median nervure to inner margin before the rather oblique 

 white antemedial band extending from below subcostal nervure to 

 inner margin and tinged with rufous above and at inner margin, 

 defined by black lines extending to costa where they are bent 

 inwards and wider apart ; medial area black-brown from below costa 

 to inner margin ; a rather oblique postmedial rufous band from 

 vein 6 to inner margin, defined on inner side by a yellowish white 

 line bent inwards to inner margin and with a black line from it 

 bent inwards to costa, the band defined on outer side by black 

 forming dentate marks at veins 6 and 4 and inner margin ; a black 

 jjatch from apex diffused on inner side, its outer edge oblique 

 to vein 6, then bent inwards to just above the outer edge of the 

 postmedial band ; an obliquely curved whitish shade from termen 

 just below apex to tornus ; a fine waved black terminal line 

 angled inwards to slight dentate marks in the interspaces. Hind 

 wing brown, the terminal half suffused with fuscous ; an oblique 

 whitish band from middle of costa to inner margin towards tornus ; 

 an oblique whitish shade from vein 4 to termen at submedian fold ; 

 cilia white, brown at middle and towards tornus. Underside of 

 fore wing grey tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous, a dark postmedial line defined on outer side by a white 

 band ; hind wing whitish thickly irrorated with brown, the terminal 

 area suffused with brown, a slight dark postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. exclusiva. Fore wing with the white antemedial band 

 very narrow. 



Hab. Congo, Katanga, Kambove {Neave), 1 S ', Bk. E. Africa, 

 Taveta {Rogers), 2 J; Bb. C. Africa, Euo Valley {Neave), 1 $ , 

 Fort Mangoche {Neave), 2 c? , 1 5 , Zomba {Johnston), 3 J , 2 $ , 

 Blantyre {Neave), 1 $ ; Mashonalais"© {Dobhie), 1 S ■, Salisbury 

 {Marshall), 5 d , 2 $ ; Transtaal, Piet Ketief {Graivshay), 1 c? , 

 1 $, Modderfontein {Gruger), 1 S ■, Zoutspanberg {Janse), 1 2, 

 Waterfalonder {Ross), 1 2 , Johannesburg, 1 § , Pretoria {Distant), 

 1 c? ; Natal, Estcourt {Htitchinson), 1 cT , 1 $, Durban {Qiiein- 

 zius, Marsden), 2 c? , 1 $ type j Madagascar. ^.rp. 36-46 

 millim. 



7783. Grammodes geometrica. 



yoctua geometrica, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 599 (1775) ; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 114, 



pl. 53. f. 4; Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 75. fF. 4-6 ; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 631 ; Jolin. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, xxxix. p. 6-6, pl. xviii. f. 7«, xxi. 



f. 25, & xxiii. f. 50; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 245. 

 Pkalcena ammonia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 98, pl. 250. f. D (1779) ; 



Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 179. 



