600 NOCTUID^. 



segments, the crest on 2ncl segment large. Fore wing with the apex roundecl, 

 the terraen evenly curved and not crenulate, the tornus with scale-tooth, the 

 inner margin lobed before middle; veins 3 and 6 h'om near angle of cell; 6 

 irom upper angle ; 'J from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; ft fully developed from 

 just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 6 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform defined by whitish and with 



pale patch beyond it barbala. 



B. Fore wing witb the reniform absent and without pale 



patch beyond the cell noclurna. 



7017. Hypodeva barljata. 



Hypodcva harbata, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 27, pi. 1. f. 2 (1894). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with red-brown and grey ; 

 pectus reddish ochreous ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous 

 brown, the crests reddish brown, the ventral surface white. Fore 

 wing yellowish suffused with olive-green ; a broad purple band 

 from discal fold to inner margin, diffused to base below the cell, 

 before the antemedial white line which is represented by an 

 oblique striga from costa and oblique sinuous line from discal fold 

 to inner margin ; reniform a narrow bar, greyish defined by w^hite 

 and with black point in upper part, a white patch above it on costa 



Fig. 241. — HyiMdcva barhcda, J". \. 



and some black streaks on the veins beyond it below costa ; post- 

 medial line chocolate-brown, acutely angled outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, sinuous, the area beyond it purple with the costa 

 chocolate-brown with some w^hite striae on it ; postmedial area 

 with olive-yellow patches defined bj* red-brown and with the veins 

 crossing them dark, at vein 6, on veins 4, 3, and at inner margin, 

 the last almost entirely suffused with red-brown ; traces of a 

 sinuous white subterminal line and of a minutely ivaved line just 

 before the terminal series of slight brown strise ; cilia grey mixed 

 with brown and with fine white line at base. Hind wing dark 

 brown, the cilia white, brownish at base ; the underside greyish 

 suffused with brown, a dark discoidal lunule and yellowish white 

 postmedial patch from costa to vein 5 with the veins on it dark. 



Hah. S. Nigeria, Lagos {Boag), 1 S , Sapele (Sam^^son), 1 c^ , 

 llesha {Dudgeon, Humfrey), 2 5 ; Gaboon. Exji. 34 millim. 



