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NOCTUIDJE. 



with the basal half brownish grey, the terminal half fuscous ; an 

 indistinct oblique whitish medial line ; some white on termen at 

 discal fold ; cilia white mixed with brown and with a brown line 

 thi'ough them. Underside blue-grey irrorated with blackish ; fore 

 wing with blackish discoidal bar and slight postmedial curved line 

 with broad band of blackish suffusion beyond it ; hind wing with 

 blackish discoidal striga and rather diffused postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines. 



Hah. Br. E. Afkica, Nairobi {Anderson), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 42 millim. 



7927. Plecopterodes moderata. 



Grammodes moderata, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 174 (1860). 

 Heliothis variabilis, Mab, Ann. Soc. En^. Fr. (6) x. p. 39 (1890). 

 Jiemigia alypophanes, Beth.-Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 530(1911). 



6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey suffused with reddish 

 brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish mixed 

 with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white. Fore wing with 

 the basal area grey tinged with brown, the rest of wing red-brown ; 

 antemedial line dark brown defined on inner side by whitish, erect, 



Fig. 40. — Plecopterodes moderata, c? 



very slightly excurved at the veins ; reniform a faint elliptical 

 brown mark with white points in upper and lower parts ; medial 

 line very indistinct, brown, excurved beyond the cell, then incurved; 

 postmedial line brown defined on outer side by white, oblique to 

 vein 6, then nearly erect ; subterminal line pale defined on each 

 side by brown and with whitish points at the veins, excurved at 

 vein 6 and incurved at middle, ending at tornus ; a fine waved dark 

 terminal line ; cilia grey-brown. Hind wing greyish suffused with 

 pale red-brown ; a diffused brown postmedial line and subterminal 

 shade diffused to termen on apical area and slightly incurved at 

 middle ; a dark terminal line ; cilia grej^-brown ; the underside 

 paler, the postmedial line curved. 



