180 NOCTUID.E. 



on vein 1 and outwards above inner marp;in ; reniform defined by 

 Wackiah, constricted at middle ; postmedial line double, blackisb, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, dentate ; 

 a terminal series of black striae defined on inner side by whitish ; 

 cilia grey with two fine blackish lines towards base, chequered 

 white and fuscous at tips. Hind wing black-brown, the basal halt' 

 with hyaline streaks in, below, and beyond cell and above and below 

 vein 1 ; cilia white at tips ; the underside with the basal half grey, 

 the terminal half fuscous, a dark bar from middle of cell and 

 indistinct postmedial line excurved below costa. 



Hah. Camerooks, Ja II., Bitje (Bates), type t d" , $ in Coll. 

 Druce. E.vp. 28 millim. 



6413. Loplioptera abbreviata. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 21.) 



Loplio-ptera abbreviata, Wlk. xxxiii. 921 (I8G.0). 



(5' . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some fuscous ; tarsi 

 black-brown ringed with whitish ; abdomen, fuscous brown slightly 

 tinged with grey. Fore wing red-brown slightly tinged in parts 

 with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by two slight strite from 

 costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double, dentate, angled outwards 

 above inner margin; claviform and orbicular represented by tufts 

 of blackish scales on their outer edges ; reniform indistinctly defined 

 and with points of raised scales on its edges ; medial line indistinct, 

 dark, angled outwards in cell and excurved in submedian inter- 

 space; postmedial line double, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate and oblique, a band of fuscous suffusion on 

 its outer side defined by a series of spots formed of raised pale and 

 black scales, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, greyish defined on outer side by fuscous suflPasion, 

 dentate ; a terminal series of slight fuscous lunules ; cilia fuscous 

 chequered with rufous at tips. Hind wing black-brown with 

 bluish hyaline streaks in lower part of cell, below and beyond the 

 cell, the streaks above and below vein 6 extending to nearer 

 termen ; the inner area with three bluish hyaline sti'eaks extending 

 to well beyond middle ; cilia white with some brown at base. 



Hah. Be. F. Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), 1 cS ; Australia, 1 <S type. 

 Eivp. 34 millim. 



6414. Lophoptera litigiosa. 



Apamea litigiosa, Boiscl. Faim. Eut. Madag. p. 93, pi. 16. f. 3 (1833). 

 Lophopfera'cristiffera, Guen. Noct.-jii. p. 55 (1852). 

 Utictoptera aluiacea, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 112. f. 4 (1874). 

 Loplwpttra aquamulosa, Saalni. Lep. Madag. p. 440, f. 147 (1880). 



Head and thorax brown tinged with grey; pectus grey; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white; abdomen grey -brown, the crest on 



