434 NOCTUID^. 



6, 5 streaked with blacliish to the postmedial line, which is black, 

 strougly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, dentate ; 

 subterminal line black-brown defined on outer side by white, 

 indistinct on inner half, minutely dentate below costa, incurved and 

 strong between vein 8 and discal fold, then dentate, incurved below 

 vein 3 and again excurved above inner margin ; an oblique black 

 fascia from apex to subtermiual line with some white suffusion 

 below it and black streaks on veins 7, 6; a series of black stria? 

 defined on inner side by slight white lunules just before termen ; a 

 fine black terminal line ; cilia brown chequered with white on 

 apical half and with fine white line at base. Hind wing white 

 tinged with brown, the terminal area broadly fuscous brown ; cilia 

 white tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area suffused 

 with brown, a small dark discoidal lunule. 



Hah. S. Nigeria, Lagos, Olokemeji (Dudcfcon), 1 c? , T- 2 , Ebute 

 Meta {Boag), 2 d , 6 5 , Old Calabar [Sampson)^ 1 S , Sapele 

 (Sampson), 1 S , Oshogbo {Sampson), 1 2 ? Hesha {Humphrey), 

 1 <S . Exp. 32-36 millim. 



6780. Risoba diversipenuis. (Plate CLXXXV. fig. 31.) 



Heliothis diversi'pennis, Wlk. xv. 1750 (1858); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 399. 



Head and thorax white mixed with reddish brown and some 

 black ; palpi with the 1st joint black above ; frons with lateral 

 black bars ; tegulse with brown dorsal patch and brown tips ; mid 

 tibiae streaked with black, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen white tinged with brown, the ventral surface irrorated 

 with brown. Fore wing violaceous grey suffused with red-brown 

 and slightly irrorated with black ; a white streak along median 

 nervure, diffused above ; a white patch from base of cell to inner 

 margin before middle slightl}^ irrorated with brown and defined 

 on outer side by a slight black line ; a brown point in middle of 

 cell ; reniform reddish brown slightly defined by blackish and with 

 blackish point in centre, minute, elliptical ; postmedial line strongly 

 angled outwards below costa, then indistinctly double, oblique, 

 .reduced to points between veins 4 and 1, angled outwards and 

 filled in with white above inner margin, some white points with 

 minute black streaks between them beyond it on costa; subterminal 

 line white slightly defined on inner side by brown, incurved below 

 costa, angled outwards below vein, 7 and oblique below vein 4 ; an 

 oblique brown and blackish shade from apex and black streaks on 

 veins 7, 6 with white lunulate spots above them ; a series of black 

 striae defined by a crenulate ivhite line just before termen. Hind 

 wing white slightly tinged with brown, the terminal area fuscous 

 brown, broad at costa, narrowing to tornus, a brown discoidal spot 

 and postmedial points on veins 5 to 2 ; cilia whitish tinged with 

 brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Punjab (James), 1 c?, 1 5 type; Burma, Moulmein 

 (Clerk), 1 2 ; Straits Settlements, Perak, Goping (KUnsfler), 



1 $ , Singapore (Ridley), 6 c? , 7 $ ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 



2 c? , 1 ?. . Kvp. 32-36 millim. 



