320 K^OCTUIDiE. 



8132. Cortyta rosacea. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 23.) 



Pericyma rosacea, Eebel, Denks. Math. -Nat. Akacl. Wissensch. Ixxi. p. 60 

 (1907). 



S • Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous mixed with some grey 

 and dark brown ; antennae blackish ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; 

 abdomen ochreous white below. Fore wing rufous irrorated Mdth 

 greyish and dark brown ; subbasal and antemedial lines indistinct, 

 double, waved, with blackish spots at costa, the former from costa 

 to vein 1, the latter erect ; orbicular a blackish point, the reniform 

 a small elliptical blackish spot with pale mark beyond it ; medial 

 line double, waved, erect ; postmedial line double, minutely waved, 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, reddish, minutely 

 waved, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a blackish 

 patch at apex ; a terminal series of minute black points ; cilia pale 

 rufous and grey-brown, Avith pale waved lines at base and middle. 

 Hind wing pale rufous irrorated with grey and fuscous ; double 

 minutely waved medial and postmedial lines ; the terminal area 

 thickly iiTorated with fuscous ; a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia pale rufous at base, whitish at tips, with a waved brown line 

 at middle ; the underside j^ellowish white, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous from apex to submedian fold. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with distinct black spot at apex. 



Hah. Sudan, Port Sudan (Mrs. Waferjielcl), 1 c? , 1 $ ; 

 SoKOTEA, Makalla, type f S in Mus. Vienna. Ex2^. 36 millim. 



Probablv a rufous aberration of C. vetusta. 



8133. Cortyta polycyma. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 24.) 



Hypoglaucitis polycyma, Hmpsn. Tr, Zool. Soc. xix. p. Ill, pi. iv. f. 18 

 (1909). 



5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous brown ; antennae 

 ringed with black ; palpi white, black towards tips ; fore and mid 

 tibiae with some blackish ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 ochreous white, dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing grey 

 suffused with fuscotis brown ; a sinuous black subbasal line from 

 costa to sub]nedian fold ; antemedial line black, angled outwards 

 below costa, then sinuoiis ; medial area with two indistinct double 

 slightly sinuous lines bent inwards to costa ; reniform defined by 

 blackish, narrow and elliptical, a slight blackish line from it to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line black, slightly excurved below costa 

 and incurved at discal fold, incurved and somewhat dentate below 

 vein 4, an indistinct dentate line beyond it followed by some white 

 suffusion below the costa ; two white points on postmedial part of 

 costa ; subterminal line whitish, waved, with some blackish suffusion 

 before it on costal area ; a fine dentate black line just before termen ; 

 a fine whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish tinged and 

 irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown. Under- 

 side brownish white ; both wings with the terminal area suffused 

 with brown except towards tornus. 



