22 KocTuiD^^i;. 



Eudidia stupida, Heri-.-Scliaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 423, Noct. ff. 297-8 



(1845). 

 Grammodes curvHinca, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Histi Soc. Glasgow, i. p. 361 



(1869). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown tinged with grey ; 

 palpi white at base ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown ; 

 ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing grey-brown ; a large 

 triangular black-brown patch from subcostal nervure to inner margin 

 before the erect yellowish white medial band also extending from sub- 

 costal nervure to inner margin ; the outer part of medial area black- 

 brown except towards costa ; a narrow yellowish white postmedial 

 band, arising below costa, excurved to below vein 3, where it is angled 

 inwards, then again excurved, followed by a rufous band from 

 vein 6 to inner margin with a minute black spot on its outer edge 

 below vein 6, dentate mark at vein 4, points at veins 3 and 2, and 

 dentate mark at inner margin ; a blackish mark from costa towards 

 apex to vein 6, diffused on inner side and defined on outer side by 

 whitish ; some blackish at apex and brown at middle of termen ; 

 cilia brown with a fine whitish line at base and white patch at 

 apex. Hind wing fuscous brown ; an oblique white band from 

 middle of costa to just above tornus where it narrows to a point ; 

 a subterminal white spot between veins 3 and 2 ; cilia white, brown 

 at middle and tornus. Underside of fore wing with the basal half 

 whitish irrorated with grey at costa, the terminal half fuscous, a 

 white diseoidal bar, white postmedial band slightly excurved to 

 vein 2, then outwardly oblique, a svibterminal series of white spots 

 except at middle, slight towards costa and confluent towards 

 tornus ; hind wing white, the terminal area fuscous, narrowing to 

 tornus, an oblique dark antemedial line and sinuous medial line 

 converging towai-ds inner margin near tornus, an incurved maculate 

 subterminal white band on costal area and spot below vein 3. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the white medial band reduced to a narrow 

 line from below the cell to inner margin. 



Ab. 2. shipida. Fore wing with the white medial band reduced 

 to a small spot on inner margin ; hind wing without the white 

 subterminal spot between veins 3 and 2. 



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 {Eaton), 1 5 ; Austria, Carniola ; Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; 

 Greece, Merlin Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Bithynia, Taurus ; 

 Syria, 1 c? , 1 $ , Leech Coll., Lebanon {Pratt), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Sierra 

 Leone {Foxcroft^, 1 $ ; N. Nigeria, Zungeru {Macfie), 1 d" , 1 $ ; 

 Congo {Marsden), 1 S type curviUnea ; Sudan, White Nile, 

 G-abt el Megahid (Z)^f?^»), 1 $; Abyssinia, Atbara {Gerrard), 

 1 6 , Essen Gola {Drake-BrocJcman), 2 $; Somaliland, Bulbar 

 {Drahe-Brochman), 1 $ ; Br. E. Africa, Kilima'njaro {Han- 

 nington), 1 c? , 1 $ , Nakuta {Bodeker), 2 $ , Machuna {Betton), 

 1 c? , Eb Urru {Betton), 1 $ , Mmiisu {Betton), 1 ? , Nairobi 

 {Grawshay), 1 S , Machakos {Cmtvshay), 3 c?, 1 $ ; Uganda, Port 

 Ugowe {Johnston), 1 5 ■> Ketoma {Boggett), 3 c? , 4 5 ; Germ. E. 

 Africa, Moschi, 1 5 ; Be. C. Africa, Fort Maguire {Neave), 



