592 NOCTUID.E. 



towards costa, angled outwards beyond the angles of cell and 

 excurved above inner margin ; an indistinct diffused brownish 

 subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and ending 

 at tornus ; the apical area suffused with yellow-green, with some 

 brown below it. Hind wing pale reddish brown with a diffused 

 dark subterminal shade ; the underside white, the costal and 

 terminal areas tinged with rufous, numerous lines formed of dark 

 brown striae, a dark brown discoidal bar. 



Hah. Transvaal, Johannesburg (CooJce), 1 2 ; Cape CoLONr, 

 Cape Town, type t $ in Coll. llothschild. E.vjj. 34 millim. 



7006. Acripia chloropera. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 23.) 



Acripia cliloropera, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Miis. ii. p. 313 (1902). 



5 . Head and tegulae grey mixed with fuscous, the latter edged 

 with white ; thorax deep chocolate-brown ; pectus and legs grey- 

 white, the tarsi banded with black; abdomen fuscous with white 

 segmental lines, the ventral surface whitish, the anal tuft ochreous. 

 Fore wing deep chocolate-brown with a purplish tinge and numerous 

 slight dark striae ; a black .point in middle of cell and elliptical dis- 

 coidal spot with slight whitish streak in centre, placed on a grey 

 band from just below middle of costa, forking at median nervure, the 

 inner arm running to inner margin before the middle and the outer 

 to near tornus ; the apical part of costal area pale green with some 

 obliquely placed subapical black points on it; a fine dark terminal 

 line. Hind wing reddish brown, the cilia whitish tinged wdth 

 brown ; underside brownish white, the costa of fore wing and the 

 hind wing with prominent black striae and small discoidal spots. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Annshaw {^Ihs F. Barrett), 1 § type. 

 ExD. 32 millim. 



7007. Acripia semiviridis. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 2i.) 



Acripia semiviridis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 445 (1902). 



S . Head and thorax olive-green ; palpi grey tinged with brown ; 

 pectus and legs grey, the tarsi blackish ringed with Avhite ; abdomen 

 fuscous with slight grey segmental lines, the ventral surface grey 

 suffused with brown. Fore wing olive-green with numerous slight 

 pale striae ; a faint oblique postmedial shade from eosta to vein 6 ; 

 a subterminal series of slight black points excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia grey at tips. 

 Underside grey, the disk of fore wing suffused with fuscous brown, 

 the costal area of fore wing and the hind wing with prominent 

 black striae. 



Hah. Transvaal, Belfast (Coo^-e), 1 S ; Xatal, Durban (Le2^7t), 

 1 S tj-pe, Exp. 26-30 millim. 



