142 NOCTUID^. 



7923. Plecopterodes meUiflua. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 29.) 



Caradrina meUiflua, Holl. Donaldson Smith's Unknown Africa, p. 416 



(1897). 

 Chalciope calicla, Hmpsn. Ann. S, Afr. Mus. ii. p. 331 (1902). 



Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with grey ; pectus 

 grey ; palpi and legs grey-white mixed with black, the tarsi blackish 

 ringed with Avhite ; abdomen brown, the ventral surface white 

 irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey suffused with red- brown 

 and irrorated with brown, the terminal area red-brown ; a slight 

 dark subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards 

 below costa ; antemedial line brown defined on inner side by some 

 white scales, slightly angled outwards at the veins ; reniform black- 

 brown, narrow and oblique with slight whitish streaks beyond it on 

 the veins ; a faint waved brown medial line excurved beyond the 

 cell, then incurved ; postmedial line brown slightly defined on outer 

 side by white, with oblique blackish bar from costa, then slight and 

 waved, with blackish points at the veins, excurved below the costa ; 

 an oblique pale subterminal line with minute white streaks on it at 

 the veins ; cilia fuscous brown, white at tips at apex. Hind wing 

 grey-brown, the terminal area fuscous brown ; an indistinct dark 

 postmedial line slightly excurved in submedian interspace ; an in- 

 distinct pale subterminal line from vein 4 to tornus ; a fine waved 

 dark terminal line ; cilia grey-bro\vn, white at tips towards apex ; 

 the underside grey irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous, a diffused curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the reniform not filled in with black. 



Ab. 2. callida. Smaller ; fore wing more uniform red-brown, the 

 reniform not filled in with black. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing pale grey-brown tinged with rufous to the 

 subterminal line, the lines without white scales or points, the 

 reniform filled in with black. 



Hah. N. Nigeria, Zungeru {Macfie), 1 6 ; AbyssijS-ia, Atbara 

 ( Gerrard), 1 S , Sheik Hussein, type f in Coll. Holland ; UaANDA, 

 Wadelai {Emin Pasha), 1 S type calida ; N.E. Rhodesia, 

 Luangwa Valley {Neave), 1 S ; Rhodesia, Bulawayo {Marshall), 

 1 S ; Tbansvaat., Johannesburg (Cooke), 1 d. iJa:p. 32-42 

 raillim. 



7924. Plecopterodes heterochroa. 



Bemigia heterochroa , Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1910, p. 426, pi. xxxvii. f. 1. 



Head and thorax olive-grey mixed with brown ; palpi blackish 

 irrorated with grey ; pectus and legs greyer, the tarsi fuscous with 

 pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing olive grey-brown 

 irrorated with fuscous ; antemedial line blackish, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa, then erect and almost straight ; a slight 

 brown discoidal striga ; postmedial line indistinctly double, blackish, 

 with small black spot at costa, very minutely waved, excurved to 

 vein 4, then erect ; subterminal line brown, straight, bent outwards 



