MAURILIA. 573 



6978. Maurilia pli»a. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 18.) 

 Maurilia pliaa, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 600 (] 905). 



Olive-fuscous ; head, thorax, aud fore wing sometimes tinged 

 "with dull rufous ; pectus and base of legs and abdomen whitish. 

 Fore wing with two dark, oblique, waved ante- and postmediiil 

 lines, the latter somewhat excurved below costa and at middle and 

 ending near tornus ; a slight oblique dark discoidal bar ; a sub- 

 terminal series of small fuscous spots, somewhat oblique from costa 

 to vein 6, slightly incurved at discal fold and excurved at middle. 

 Hind wing and underside uniform fuscous brown, the interspaces 

 of basal area faintly semihyaline. 



Hah. SiKERA. Leone {Bartlett), 1 $ ; S. Nigeria, Old Calabar 

 (Miss Kinr/sley, Sampson, Grompton), 4 S type, Olokemeji (Dudgeon), 

 1 cS , Ilesha {Humphrey), 1 5 . EAp. 30-40 millim. 



6979, Maurilia iconica. 



Anomis icanica, Wlk. xiii. 992 (1857) ; Hiiipsu. 111. Het. B.M. ix. p. 132, 



pi. 167. f. 8; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 417. 

 Briarda cervina, Wlk. xxxv. 1968 (1866). 

 Anomis insiabills, Butl. III. Het. B.M. vii. p. 72. pi. 131. f. 3 (1889). 



Head and thorax rufous ; palpi at base, pectus and legs white, 

 the fore femora above and the tibise suffused with brown, the tarsi 

 brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing rufous irrorated with brown ; two 

 rather diffused oblique sinuous fuscous antemedial lines ; a slight 

 discoidal lunule ; two rather diffused fuscous, oblique, postmedial 

 lines, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and incurved at discal 

 fold and submedian interspace ; subterminal line fuscous with 

 small black spots on it on costal half, excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle, incurved at discal fold and bent outwards to tornus. 

 Hind wing semihyaline whitish suffused with brown, especially on 

 inner and terminal areas ; the underside whitish, the costal area 

 and terminal area to vein 3 tinged and irrorated with brown, 



Ab, 1, instabilis. Head, thorax, and fore wing greyer brown, 

 the last with the costal half suffused with rufous to the postmedial 

 line, a prominent black discoidal lunule, 



Ab, 2 cervina. Head, thorax, and fore wing grey-brown without 

 rufous suffusion. 



Ab. 3, Head, thorax, and fore wing dark glossy reddish brown ; 

 hind wing almost uniform fuscous brown, 



Ab. 4. Similar but fore wing with the inner half suffused with 

 blackish from the outer antemedial to the outer postmedial line. 



Hah. C. China, Kiukiang (Pratt), 1 5 ; Punjab, Simla {Harford), 

 1 2 , Dharmsala {Hocking), 7 6 type instahilis, Jubbulpur, 2 $ ; 

 Nepaul {Hardivici-), 1 5 type cervina ; Sikhim {MoUer), 7 d" , 3 $ ; 

 Assam, Khasis ; Bombay, llatnagiri {Jayal-er), 1 $ , Khandala ; 

 Madras, Horsleykondah {Campbell), 1 J , Nilgiris {Hamp>son), 

 3 (S ; Teayancoke, Pirmad {Mrs. Imray), 2 $ ; Ceylon {TempJeton), 



