86 NOCTUID^. 



Colombia, Minca {S. H. Smith), 3 c?, 2 $, Sierra del Libano 

 (jff. a. Smith), 1 §; Yeneztjela, 2 d" , 4 $ type delinqiiens; 

 Br. Guiana {Bodway, Bolerts), 4 S ; Surinam, 1 J , 1 2 ; 

 Brazil, Para {Bates), 2 cT , 1 $ type collata, Santarem {Bates), 

 2 2 type stihtilis, Bahia (O. Thomas), 1 (S , Rio Janeiro, 1 J, 

 2 $, Sao Paulo {D. Jones), 2 $; Paraguay, Sapucay {Foster), 

 11 J , 6 $ ; Argentina {Giacomelli, 0. Thomas), 2 d , 2 $ , 

 Goya {Berrins), 2 J ; S. Trinidad {Meade-Waldo), 1 $ ; Sierra 

 Leone {Morgan, Foxcroft), 2 $ type detersa; Gold Coast, 

 Kumasi {Whiteside), 1 c? , 1 2 ; S. Nigeria, Old Calabar 

 {Crompton), 1 d , Sapele {Sampson), 1 $ ; N. Nigeria, Baro 

 {Macjie), 1 $ ; Congo {Gurror), 3 cJ , 1 $ type conveniens, 

 Katanga, Kambove {Neave), 1 c? ; Sudan, White Nile, Gabt el 

 Meghaliid {Dunn), 1 6 ; Abyssinia, Atbara {Gerrard>), 1 d ; 

 Br. E. Africa, Eb Urru {Betton), 1 $ , Eabai {Sogers), 1 ? , 

 Nairobi {Graivshay), 1 S ; Uganda, Kampala {Scott- Elliot), 

 1 $ , Entebbe {Minchin), 1 $ ; Germ. E. Africa, Magila, 1 $ ; 

 Br. C. Africa, Mlanji Boma {Weave), S 6 , 1 $ , Rukuru 11. 

 {Neave), 1 $ , Zomba {Johnston), 1 d , Cliinde {de Jersey), 

 1 d , Chiromo {de Jersey), 1 5 , Shire Valley {Neave), 1 d ; 

 N.E. Rhodesia, Luangwa R. {Neave), 2 6, 3 $ ; Gazaland, 

 Beira {Sheppard), 1 d , Chirinda Forest {Marshall), 1 $ ; 

 Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 3d, 3 $ ; Transvaal, 

 Umplosi {Grant), 1 d ; Zululand {Anyas), 1 d ; Natal, Pine- 

 tjwn {Leigh), 1 $, Durban {Gueinzius, Gooch, Leigh, Clark), 

 3d, 3 $; Madagascar, Foret d'Ambre {Meade-Waldo), 1 $, 

 Antananarivo (Toj/),l $; Comoro Is., Mayotta {Meade-Waldo), 

 1 d, 1 $ ; Rodriguez {Gulliver, Manders), 2 d ; Seychelles, 

 Felicite {Meade- Waldo), 1 $, Mahe {Meade- Waldo), 1 d; 

 Aden {Yerbury, Swinhoe, J. J. Walker), 2d, 3 $. J?^;^;. 

 38-52 millim. 



Larva. Whitish, with numerous fine brown lines ; dark brown 

 subdorsal stripes interrupted between somites 4, 5 and 5, 6 by 

 dark bands defined by white points ; the fine lines on lateral 

 area redder ; a white stigmatal line with dark brown stripe below 

 it ; two anterior pairs of prolegs absent. 



7856. Mocis diffluens. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 21.) 



Eemigia diffluens, Giien. Noct. iii. p. 318 (1852); Druce, Biol. Centr.- 



Am., Het. i. p. 388. 

 Eemigia mensuralis, Wlk. xiv. 1499. 



d . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with pui-ple-grey ; pectus, 

 legs, and hair on hind tibiae and tarsi ochreous tinged with rufous, 

 the fore and mid tibiae irrorated with brown, the tarsi dark brown ; 

 abdomen brown, the ventral surface ochreous irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing purple-grey tinged with red-brown and with slight dark 

 iiToration ; subbasal line red-brown defined on inner side by grey, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; - antemedial line rather diffused, 

 red-brown defined on inner side by grey, oblique, a black point 



