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NOCTUIDiE. 



to vein 4; some wbitish points on costa towards apex; a sub- 

 terminal scries of small obscure fuscous spots except towards costa, 

 excurvcd below vein 4 to near termeu ; some brown suffusion on 

 terminal area below apex with slightly darker streaks on the veins. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia ochreous white. Underside of 

 fore wing fuscous brown, the inner area and hind wing whitish. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and abdominal crests sap-green ; fore wing 

 with the basal and apical areas sap-green, the medial area and 

 inner half of terminal area pale rufous. 



Hab. jNTigeeia, Old Calabar {Cromj)ton\ 1 $ type, Hesha 

 {liumplirey), 1 $ . Exp. 30 millim. 



6977. Maurilia heterochroa. (Plate OLXXXIX. fig. 17.) 



Maurilia Jieierochroa , Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. COO (1905). 



Head, thorax, and fore wing varying from bright rufous to 

 greyish rufous or greyish fuscous ; palpi irrorated with white ; 

 irons with white patch ; pectus and base of legs white ; tibiae and 

 tarsi white mixed with rufous ; abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft 

 rufous, the ventral surface white tinged with rufous towards ex- 

 tremity. Fore wing with double waved, very oblique autemedial 

 line ; black points in end of cell and on discocellulars ; a double, 

 somewhat waved postmedial line, oblique from costa to vein 6, 

 slightly angled inwards in discal fold, then excurved, and incurved 

 in submedian interspace ; a slight somewhat sinuous fuscous shade 

 from apex to antemedial line below the cell ; a subtermiual 

 punctiform black line slightly excurved at vein 7 and incurved at 

 discal fold ; the termen rather darker from just below apex to 

 vein 2. Hind wing fuscous brown to deep fuscous ; cilia greyish 

 at tips. Underside of fore wing fuscous black, the costal and 

 terminal areas red with some whitish on costa towards apex, 

 inner area whitish ; hind wing red, the basal and inner areas 

 grey-white. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the inner area from near base to sub- 

 terminal line and extending to upper angle of cell suffused with 

 dark red-brown. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with this area deep ferruginous red with a 

 large darker ferruginous somewhat triangular patch on it beyond 

 the cell. 



Ab. 3. Fore Aving greyish fuscous. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing greyish fuscous with a similar dark fuscous 

 patch on inner area. 



Ab. 5. Fore wing greyish fuscous with diffused black wedge- 

 shaped patch beyond the cell. 



Hab. S. NiGEKiA, Lagos {Dudgeon), 1 J , Old Calabar {liutlierford, 

 Crompton), 4 d , 2 $ tvpe, Sapele (Sampson), 2 J. Fap. 36- 

 40 millim. 



