296 NOCTUIDiE. 



6588. Selepa nigralba. (Plate CLXXXII. fig. 6.) 



Plotheia nigralha, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 305; id. Motli3 Ind. 

 iv. p. 525. 



Head and thorax black-brown ; palpi wbitish below ; abdomen 

 grey-brown. Fore wing black-brown ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 blackish, faintly defined on inner side by whitish, slightly bent out- 

 wards between subcostal nervure and vein 1 ; a white point in 

 middle of cell and a discoidal striga of raised black scales ; a large 

 white patch on middle of costa intersected by the blackish post- 

 medial line which arises at middle of costa, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then slightly defined by white on outer side, angled 

 inwards at vein 7 and discul fold and outwards at vein 6, below 

 vein 3 bent inwards to below end of cell, then again excurved ; a 

 diifused oblique white patch from apex intersected by the slight 

 dark subterminal line, which is minutely dentate towards costa and 

 somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a series of white 

 striae just before termen. Hind wing blackish brown, the cilia 

 with a fine whitish line at base and whitish tips. 



Hah. BnuTAN {Dud(ieon), 1 $ type ; Siwgapoee {Ridley), 1 S ■> 

 1 $ . Exij. 22-26 millim. 



6589, Selepa leucograpta, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXII. fig. 7.) 



5 . Headj thorax, and abdomen greyish brown ; palpi white 

 below ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous white. 

 Fore wing whitish suffused with leaden grey and some brown ; 

 antemedial line formed by black scales slightly defined on inner 

 side by whitish, oblique from costa to above vein 1 ; a point of 

 raised black scales at middle of cell and discoidal striga ; })ost- 

 medial line indistinctly double, filled in with white and defined on 

 outer side by white except towards costa, obliquely bent outwards 

 below costa, then the outer line minutely dentate to vein 3, then 

 incurved; an oblique white shade from apical part of costa to the 

 postmedial line ; subterminal line defined on inner side by brown 

 sufiiision and by points of raised blaek scales towards inner margin, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a series of minute white 

 striae just before termen. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia v/ith 

 fine white line at base and white tips. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Lagos {Dudgeon), 1 § type. Exp. 22 millim. 



6590. Selepa violescens, n. sp, (Plate CLXXXII. fig. 8.) 



c5' . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; palpi below and 

 pectus whitish ; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing violaceous whitish suffused with red-brown ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, dark defined on inner side by whitish, oblique to 

 submedian fold and angled outwards above vein 1 ; postmedial line 

 fine, dark defined on each side by grey- white, arising at middle of 



