28 N0CTUID.51. 



Trigojiodcs iiiacuta, Guen. I^ocfc. iii. p. 281 (1852).' 

 Trigonodes exportaia, Guen. Noot. iii. p. 284 (1852). 

 Trigonodes compar, WJk. xiv. 1451 (1858). 



S • Head grey-brown ; thorax ochreous grey with a brown streak 

 on dorsum of tegulse and patagia ; pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 ochreous whitish. Fore wing grey-white tinged with brown ; an 

 antemedial blackish brown patch defined by whitish lines in sub- 

 median interspace from near base to beyond middle, its aj)ex extend- 

 ing to the cell above base of vein 2, separated, except by a streak 

 above median nervm-e, by an oblique whitish band from a triangular 

 blackish brown postmedial patch defined by whitish lines except 

 above and with its angles at lower angle of cell, at vein 6 towards 

 apex and below vein 2 towards tornus ; a reddish brown shade 

 beyond the postmedial patch followed by an incurved whitish line 

 from ajiex to near tornus, Avith some blackish brown suffusion 

 before it above and beloAV middle and blackish points on its outer 

 edo-e at veins 4, 3, 2 ; a whitish shade before the dark terminal line 

 which extends from apex to submedian fold ; cilia whitish with 

 a brown line near base. Hind wing ochi^eous whitish, the veins 

 tinged Avith brown ; a faint ciuwed brown postmedial line from 

 below costa to vein 2 ; a brown subterminal shade, broad at apex 

 and ending on termen at vein 1 ; a dark terminal line from apex to 

 submedian fold ; cilia whitish with a brown line near base. Under- 

 side of both wings ochreous whitish tinged with rufous ; fore wing 

 with an incurved brown subterminal shade ; hind wing with a 

 brown subterminal shade from costa to submedian fold. 



2 . Browner, especially the hind wing. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing much redder brown, the white markings 

 reduced. — Bougainville. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the oblique medial band \ei'j narrow and 

 not nearly extending to the pale costal area. 



Ab. 3. inacuta. Fore wing with the postmedial triangular patch 

 shorter, rounded below and with the white on its edges stronger. 



Hab. Sierra Leone {ILorgan, Smith), 2 cJ , 2 $ ; Gold Coast, 

 Appan, 1 (5 ; S- Nigeria, Lagos {Boa(j~), 1 5 , Old Calabar {Goch- 

 hurn, Cronqjton), 5 J, Sa-pele (Saiiq^soii), 1 J; N. Nigeria, Bida 

 (Macfie), 1 2 5 Zungeru {Ifacjie), 1 $ ; Cameroons, 1 J ; Congo, 

 Katanga, Kambove {Neave), 1 J; Angola, San Salvador, 1 6; 

 Sudan, Port Sudan {Mrs. WaterfieU), 2 $ , White Nile, Gabt 

 el Megahid {Dunn), 1 ?; Abyssinia, Atbara {Gerrard), 1 2, 

 Zegi Tsana {Degen), 1 $ ; Br. E. Africa, Mombasa {de la 

 Garde), 1 c? , Taveta {Rogers), 1 $, Sanduk {Beit on), 1 5, 

 Nairobi {Grawsliay), 1 5 , Eb Urru {Betton), 15; Uganda, 

 Entebbe {Johnston), 1 S , Wadelai {Emin Pasha), 1 5, Euwen- 

 zori {Wollaston), 1 2; Br. C. Africa, M'langi Boma {Neave), 

 1 2, Zomba {Johnston), 1 6, Deep Bay {Craioshag), 1 5; 

 Mozambique {Ansorge, Ifiiir), 1 rf , 1 ? , Delagoa Bay {Junod), 

 1 S; Transtaal, Bultfontein {Janse), 1 $; Natal, Durban 

 {Gueinzius, Burrows), 1 (5,25; Cape Colony {Sir A. Smith), 



