522 NOCTUIDiE. 



inner area whitish ; hind wing flesh-colour, the terminal area 

 purple-red. 



$ . Hind wing with the basal half white. 



Ab. 1. cJ . Hind wing white, the termen and the inner area 

 slightly suffused with purple-red ; underside of fore wing white 

 with red suff'iisiou below costa and on apical half of terminal area. 



Ab. 2. cJ • Fore wing with the medial area purplish grey 

 suffused and irrorated with purplish fuscous. 



Ab. 3. 5 • Tore wing with the medial area whiter with less 

 purplish fuscous suffusion. 



Hah. Gambia {Moloney) in Coll. Druce ; Gold Coast, N. Ashanti 

 {Dudgeon), 1 $ ; S. Nigekia, Lagos {Boag), 1 cJ , Olokemeji 

 {Dud(jeon), 1 j type; Natal, Durban (QueJceit), 1 §. E.v^k 

 30-32 millim. 



6894. Lophocrama auritincta. 



Cai-ea auritincta, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 597 (1905). 



(S . Head and thorax rufous with a silky gloss ; palpi in front, 

 pectus and legs white ; fore and hind tibiae partly rufous, the tarsi 

 rufous ringed with white ; abdomen pale rufous, the ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing rufous with a greenish golden gloss especially 



Fig. 199. — Lopliocrama auritincta, (^ . \. 



towards costa ; the costa with antemedial and medial black and 

 white points, towards apex with dark brown streaks interrupted by 

 three white points. Hind wing fiery orange-red ; cilia white at 

 tips. Underside of fore wing orange-red, the inner area and costal 

 area to beyond middle sufli'used with white ; hind wing white tinged 

 with red. 



Hab. Nigeria, Old Calabar (Cromj)ton), 1 J type. Bxj). 

 26 millim. 



Genus PSEUDELYDNA. 



Type. 



Pseudelydna, Hmpsn. Moths Incl. ii. p. 420 (1894) rufojiava.. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle 

 of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round ; antenn£e of male with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed with hair and 

 hair-like scales, the prothoras without crest, the metathorax with slight crest; 

 fore and mid tibia; moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests 

 on basal segments and clothed with rough hair, in male very long. Fore 

 wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen typically evenly curved 

 and slighily crenidate ; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 



