ABEOSTOLA. MOUEALIA. 591 



8443. Abrostola l)revipennis. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 32.) 



Xylina brevyoennis, Wlk. xv. 1734 (1858). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous and some dark 

 brown ; tegailse with black bars at middle ; palpi blackish at sides ; 

 legs with blackish mixed, the tarsi black ringed with whitish ; 

 abdomen ochreous brown, the basal cre.st black. Fore wing red- 

 brown with an ochreous tinge, suffused in parts with fuscous ; 

 antemedial line double, the inner line red-brown with some blackish 

 suffusion before it, the outer fine, black, exciu'ved and slightly 

 waved, some black beyond it in submedian interspace ; orbicular 

 and reniform large, incompletely defined by black and with some 

 raised scales on their edges, some fuscous in centre of former and 

 inner part of latter ; the spot below the cell defined by three points 

 of raised black scales ; some blackish suffusion on medial part of 

 costa and between the stigmata ; postmedial line very indistinct 

 to vein 3, then fine, black, siniious, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then somewhat dentate to vein 3, the costa be3^ond it with 

 ochreous points with black streaks between them ; an oblique 

 ochreous fascia from apex defined below by diffused blackish, 

 continued as a slightly curved shade to above inner margin beyond 

 the postmedial line, with slight black spots on the veins at middle 

 and two short black streaks below apex ; a fine waved black 

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

 brown and with the veins brown, the terminal half brown with a 

 cupreous gloss ; cilia whitish, brown at base except towards tornus ; 

 the underside with the basal half white irrorated and suffused with 

 brown, a brown discoidal bar and rather diffused postmedial line 

 excurved below costa. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing more uniformly suffused with fuscous. 



Hal. Br. E. Afeica, Eb Urru {Beffon), 1 $ , E. Quaso 

 (Beffon), 1 $ , Munisu (Ld. Belamere), 1 J , Nairobi (Anderson), 

 2 c? ; Transvaal, White K. ( Coolie) ,\ S , Natal, Victoria Distr. 

 {Gooch), 1 c?, Durban {Gueinzius, Clark), 1 c? , 1 ? type. Mvp. 

 28-36 millim. 



Genus MOURALIA. 



Type. 



Mournlia, Wlk. xt. 1803 (1858) tinciokles. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, (he 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth, with tuft of hair 

 above; eyes large, round, overhung by long cilia ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, the pro- and metathoras with 

 spreading crests ; tibiae modenitely fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal 

 series of small crests. Fore wing with the costa arched towards apex which 

 is somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell; small tufts of raised scales in and 

 below the cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed 

 from well above angle ; H, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base onlv. 



