102 NOCTUID^. 



6319. Anigrsea purpurascens, n. sp. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 20.) 



2 . Head and thorax deep purple-red ; palpi irrorated with white 

 and with white tips ; pectus white ; legs fuscous and white with 

 some purplish red on fore tibiiB ; abdomen reddish ochreous, the 1st 

 two segments purplish red and grey. Fore wing deep purple-red 

 slightly tinged with grey and irrorated with white except on basal 

 area ; antemedial line strongly excurved, ochreous white, defined 

 on outer side by black-brown from cell to inner margin ; the inner 

 half of medial area sufi"used with ochreous grey; reniform defined 

 by ochreous grey, somewhat angled inwards on median nervure, an 

 irregular fuscous black streak from it to subterminal line where it 

 forks ; postmedial line white and very strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then ochreous defined on each side by black-brown, 

 oblique and slightly sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa 

 and a wedge-shaped crimson-red mark below vein 2 ; subterminal 

 line very ill-defined, ochreous, difi'used to tei'men between veins 6 

 and 4, a small black spot on it below vein 7 ; a series of black strise 

 just before termen forming a small spot below vein 3 ; cilia crimson 

 mixed with fuscous. Hind wing fuscous with a greyish tinge, a 

 slight red streak in terminal part of submedian fold ; cilia chequered 

 creamy-white and fuscous; the underside ochreous white suffused 

 with fuscous, a fuscous discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Bab, Gold Coast, Kumasi ( Whiteside), 1 $ type. Eaj). 2S millim. 



Genus ANUGA. 



Tjpe. 



Amiga, Gtnen. Noct ii. p 307(1852).... , cmistrk-ia. 



I'iada, Wlk. xv. 1746 (1858) mvJiiplicans. 



Ccecila, Wlk. xv. 1824(1858) constricta. 



Phmna7ia, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. rii. p. 1H4 (18fi4) ... constricta. 



H-per&ara, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. \ii. p. 174 (1864) ... constricia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2iid joint typically reaching 

 to middle of frons and very broadly scaled, the 3rd short with tuft of scales in 

 front ; f rons smooth with ridges of scales at middle and above ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennje of male typically longer than fore wing and with very short 

 branches on outer side only from some way beyond base to near middle ; 

 thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without distinct crests ; tibise fringed 

 with long hair ; abdomen long with slight dorsal ridges of scales on two basal 

 scments but without ci-ests, the anal segment long and tubular. Fore wing 

 loncf and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved, crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennre of male of normal length, with very long drooping branches 

 to beyond middle, the apical part ciliated ; a large tuft of scales from 

 basal joint. 



A. Antennae of female bipectinate with moderate branches to middle ; palpi 

 with the 2nd joint upturned and straight to above vertex of head and 

 with two ridges of hair in front, the 3rd joint long. 



