ABEOSTOLA. 589 



vein 3, then incurved and excurved below subniedian fold, some 

 greyish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale 

 slightly defined on outer side by blackish, minutely dentate, with 

 three short black streaks before it below costa ; a terminal series 

 of slight dark lunules. Hind wing with the basal half white, the 

 veins and inner margin tinged with brown ; the terminal half 

 fuscous hrown ; the underside with the costal area suffused with 

 hrown, a blackish discoidal spot. 



5 . Abdomen with the lateral fringes and anal tuft not ochreous ; 

 hind wing with the basal area suifused -with brown. 



Hah. SiKHiM (^Magee, Moller), 1 d" , 1 5 type. Exp. d" 36, 

 5 44 millim. 



8440. Abrostola triopis. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 29.) 



Abrostola triopis, Ilmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mua. ii. p. 344 (1902). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey- white, the vertex 

 of head and tegulse ochreous and red-brown ; palpi black-brown, 

 white in front ; pectus black-brown in front ; tarsi blackish ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey-brown with some white hair at base of 

 sides, the ventral surface white irrorated with brown. Fore wing 

 grey suffused with dark brown ; subbasal line slight, double, red- 

 brown, curved, from costa to median nervure ; antemedial line 

 double, the inner line red-brown, the outer black, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa and incurved at vein 1 ; orbicular, reniform, 

 and a spot below outer edge of former large, grey defined by black 

 with some raised scales on their edges, their centres slightly defined 

 by brown ; postmedial line double, the inner line black, the outer 

 red-brown, hent oiitwards and obsolescent below costa, then oblique 

 and slightly sinuous to vein 3 and excurved above inner margin, 

 some grey points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish defined 

 on each side by rather diffused dark brown, waved ; a waved black 

 terminal line. Hind wing with the basal half white tinged with 

 brown and with the veins brown, the terminal half dark cupreous 

 brown ; cilia white slightly tinged with brown ; the underside white, 

 the veins and costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with hrown, a small dark discoidal spot and rather diffused 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Eb Urru {Befton), 3 5 ; Zululand, 

 Tugela R. {Reynolds), 1 $ ; Natal, Durban {JBoioJcer, Ross, 

 Innes, Leigh), 1 c? , 6 $ tvpe ; Cape CoLOisnr {Drege), 1 $ . 

 Exp: 28-36 millim. 



8441. Abrostola abrostolina. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 30.) 



Ivguridia abrostolina, Eutl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 354 (1879). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown ; pectus and 

 hind legs with some grey ; tarsi black-brown ringed with whitish ; 



