324 NocTriDj^.. 



2 . Fore wing rather paler ; hind wing with indistinct minutel)' 

 waved postmedial and subterminal lines defined on outer side by 

 whitish, 



IJab. Gold Coast, Obuassi (Bergman), 1 $ , Kumasi (WhUesuh), 

 1 d ; Congo (Marsden), 1 d type. Exp. J 32-36, $ 88 millim. 



Genus TRIORBIS. ^ ^ 



TriorMs, Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 366 (1894) annulata. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint reaching to above 

 vertex of head and rather slenderly scaled, the 3rd long and acuininate ; frons 

 with vertical ridge clothed with liair ; eyes large, round ; antennte of male 

 laminate and almost simple ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the 

 pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibitB and 1st joint of hind tarsi 

 above of male fringed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 

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

 tomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 

 from before angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; (5, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 



A. Fore wing with metallic golden fascia below the cell aurcovitta. 



B. Fore wing without metallic golden fascia below the cell ... annulata. 



6629. Triorbis aureovitta. 



Iriorhis aureovitfa, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Soc. Nat. Hist. xiv. p. i209, pi. B. f. 16 

 (1902). 



S . Head and thorax bright red-brown mixed with some 

 ochreous ; palpi darker at sides ; abdomen pale brown, the crests 

 ochreous and brown, the anal tuft pinkish, the ventral surface 

 yellowish white. Fore wing bright red-brown suffused with purp- 

 lish pink and with ochreous in parts ; a metallic golden fascia from 

 base of costa below the cell to vein 2 ; antemedial line brown 

 slightly defined on inner side by whitish, strongly angled outwards 

 below costa, bent inwards in cell, angled outwards below the cell 

 to postmedial line, then very oblique and sinuous to above inner 

 margin where it is bent outwards to the postmedial line at vein 1 ; 

 orbicular and reniform with tufts of brown scales in centres and 

 whitish annuli defined by brown, small, round, the latter with its 

 outer edge open and confluent with a tooth from postmedial line, 

 which is brown defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards 

 below costa, strongly dentate outwards at vein 6 and inwards at 

 discal fold to the reniform and at submedian fold to the antemedial 

 line, strongly angled inwards at vein 1, and outwards above inner 

 margin, then bent inwards to inner margin before middle ; the 

 postmedial area with some dark streaks from below costa to discal 

 fold ; subterminal line ochreous white, bent outwards below costa, 

 slightly excurved at middle, angled inwards at submedian fold to 

 the postmedial line ; a slightly sinuous dark line defined on inner 



