24 NOCTUID^. 



band from it to submedian fold ; hind wing with slight discoidal 

 striga, faint sinuous postmedial line, the yellow subterminal band 

 with waved edges. 



Hah. Transvaal {Boss), 1 6 , Barberton (BendaU), 1 6 , 

 Modderfontein (Cn/ffer), 1 6 , Rietfontein {Junse), 1 $, Pretoria 

 {Janse, Distant), 3 6 ; Orange R. Colony, Bloemfontein {Wilson, 

 Eckersleij), 3 6 , Yredefort Rd. {Hamilton), 1 c? ; Natal, Est- 

 court {Htitchinson), 1 S , Durban, 1 c? type ; Basutoland, 

 Masite {Craivshay), 1 c? , Maseru {CraiosJiay), IS, 2 $; Cape 

 Colony, Albany, 1 6 . Exp. 30-36 millim. 



7788. Grammodes boisdeffrei. 



Ophiusahoisdeffrei,OhQYi\i.'^t. Eat. i. p. 54, pi. 4. f. 6 (1871)); Stand. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 244. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white ; antennae brownish ; 

 palpi white, brownish at tips ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen white, the legs slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing- 

 pale ochreous irrorated and in parts suffused with red-brown ; ante- 

 medial line black, slightly sinuous, from subcostal nervure to inner 

 margin, a conical red- brown patch before it; a medial whitish band 

 from subcostal nervm-e to inner margin, excurved in celland incurved 

 in submedian interspace ; the outer part of medial area red-brown, 

 narrowing to a point at inner margin, defined on outer side by the 

 bkck postmedial line, which is oblique from eosta, toAvards which 

 it is obsolescent, to vein 6, incurved below vein 3, and bent inwards 

 to inner margin ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by 

 red-brown, and by a slight black streak above vein 6, then by some 

 blackish marks, oblique to vein 6, then incurved and slightly 

 sinuous and bent outwards to near tornus ; a small black spot on 

 termen just below apex and some red-brown suffusion on middle of 

 termen ; cilia white with a brown line at middle. Hind wing 

 ochreous white tinged with red-brown ; an oblique dark medial 

 line with some brown suffusion before it, followed by a white 

 band ; the terminal area suffused with black-brown, narrowing to 

 tornus and leaving pale patches just before termen at apex and 

 below middle ; a blacker spot at middle of termen ; a dark terminal 

 line ; cilia white with a dark line at middle from vein 4 to tornus. 

 Underside white tinged in parts with ochreous ; fore wing with a 

 dark discoidal striga, sinuous postmedial line from vein 7 to sub- 

 median fold and brownish subterminal and terminal shades ; hind 

 wing with dark discoidal striga, slight sinuous line from lower 

 angle of cell to submedian fold, curved slightly waved postmedial 

 line from below costa to submedian fold, and sinuous subterminal 

 shade. 



Hah. Algeria, Batna {Eaton), 1 S, Hamman - es - Salahin 

 {Walsingham), 2 c? , 3 $ ; ? Palestine. Exy. 34-48 miUim. 



