162 NOCTUID.E. 



thorax red-brown ; patagia grey edged witli red-brown ; pectus 

 ochreous ; legs red-brown ; abdomen grey-brown, ventrally yellowish 

 wliite. Fore wing pale grey, the costa, inner margin, and terminal 

 area below vein 4 red-brown mixed with blackish ; subbasal and ante- 

 medial red-brown spots on costa defined by blackish stria3 ; reniform 

 red-brown defined by blackish, connected with the costa; traces of 

 a sinuous medial line; postmedial line very indistinct, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4 ; an 

 indistinct lunulate whitish subterminal line with black streak before 

 and beyond it below costa ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules. 

 Hind winghyaline,the veins, terminal area, and inner margin fuscous 

 brown ; cilia white with a dark line through them; the underside 

 with dark bar from middle of costa. 



Hah. Gekm. E. Africa, Dar-es-Salaam (Neave), 1 J ; Cape 

 CoLONY, Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 1 S ; Madagascae, Nossi Bei. 

 E.vp. 40 millim. 



6389. Stictoptera macromma. 



Siidoptera macromma, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 87, pi. 6. f. 8 (1880). 



S. Head and thorax rufous; palpi wliite in front; tibise and 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey tinged with 

 rufous, the crest on 3rd segment blackish, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing chocolate red-brown to middle of costa and to tornus, 

 the rest of wing dark purple-brown irrorated with white ; 

 subbasal line represented by double dark stria3 filled in with white 

 from costa; antemedial line with white point at costa, then very 

 indistinct, dark, angled inwards at vein 1 ; claviform represented 

 by a minute dark streak at its extremity ; orbicular with incomplete 

 white annulus defined by blackish, elongate elliptical ; reniform 

 defined by blackish, with white bar before it, its annulus broken up 

 into white points, three short white streaks beyond it; medial line 

 very indistinct, oblique to subcostal nervure, then erect and almost 

 straight; postmedial line double filled in with white, broken up 

 into spots and bars, bent outwards below costa, then somewhat 

 dentate, incurved below vein 4, and almost obsolete towards inner 

 margin ; some ochreous white points on costa towards apex ; 

 subterminal line represented by a series of white lunules, double 

 below vein 7 ; a series of white bars just before termen ; cilia with 

 a series of white spots. Hiud wing hyaline, the veins and terminal 

 area fuscous brown ; cilia white with a dark line through them 

 from apex to vein 2; the underside with slight dark discoidal spot. 



The eyes are very large and the frons extremely narrow above in 

 male. Snellen's figure has the white markings of fore wing much 

 less prominent. 



Hah. Celebes; Er. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 1 J. E.vj-). 

 46 millim. 



