574 NOCTUIDiE. 



1 9 type, ]\Iaskelij'a {de Mowhrcnj),! (5,1$; BaRjiv, Ranso^^'ii 

 jST. Khyeii Hills (Watson), 4: cJ , 3 $ ; Singapore (Ridlei/), 2 S, 

 ] 2 ; Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 4 c? ; Queensland, Towns- 

 ville (Dodd), 1 c? • E.vj-). 30-40 millim. 



G980. Maurilia arcuata. 



Xanthndes arcuata, Wlk. xii. 779 (1857). 



Maurilia luhina, Mosl'IiI. Verli. z.-b. VVien. xxxiii. p. 29S, pi. xvi. f. 13 

 (1884). 



Head and thorax pale reddish ochreous ; palpi at base, pectus 

 and legs white, the fore and mid tibiae pale rufous, the tarsi rufous 

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

 white. Fore wing reddish ochreous ; two indistinct, obliijue, 

 sinuous brownish antemedial lines ; a slight discoidal lunule ; two 

 indistinct oblique postmedial lines, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle and incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; subterminal 

 lino represented by a series of small black spots on costal half, 

 then by a brown line ending at tornus, slightly excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins, 

 inner and terminal areas tinged with reddish ochreous. 



Fig. 219. — Maurilia arcuata,, (^ . \. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing pale ochreous. 



Ab. 2. Similar but fore wing with the lines and discoidal lunule 

 distinct, a subbasal line present, the subterminal line entire, a 

 patch of brown on termen at discal fold. 



Ab. 3. Head, thorax, and fore wing bright rufous irrorated with 

 fuscous, the last with the lines and discoidal lunule distinct. 



Ab. 4. Similar but fore wing with some fuscous suffusion on 

 inner area towards tornus and on terminal area at discal fold. 



Ab. 5. Similar but fore wing with the inner area suffused with 

 fuscous from the inner antemedial to the outer postmedial line. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Lagos, Olokemeji (Dudgeon), 3 c? ; N. Nigeria, 

 Minna (Macfie), 1 5; CWgo (RicJiardson), 1 $ type; Abyssinia, 

 Atbara (Gerrard), 1 $; Br. E. Africa, Naitolia (Betton), ] (S , 

 Eb Urru (Betton), 1 $, Kikuyu (Crawshay), 1 $, Machakos 

 (Oraiushay), 1 5; Uganda, Ketoxaa. (Dog gett), 1 c? ; Br. C. Africa, 

 Lr. Shire E.. (Neavc), I S\ Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 

 1 2; Transvaal, White R.(Cooi-^),l $; Naxal, Malvern (il////rtr), 

 1 2 , Durban (Barlcer, Marley, Leigh), 2 c? , 4 $ ; Cape Coloni', 

 Grahamstown, 1 J , 1 $ , Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 1 ^ . E.rj). 

 26-38 millim. 



