624 NOCTUiD.!:. 



whitish. Fore wing pale rufous ; an oljlique, straight, dark brown 

 antemedial line ; two black discoidal points with a few white scales 

 on them ; postmedial line slightly excurved from costa to vein 6, 

 then oblique ; a slight pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing brown 

 with a silky gloss ; the underside whitish slightly irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hab. Nigeria, Old Calabar {Orompon), 1 (S type. Exp. 28 

 millim. 



Genus NEGETA. 



Type. 



Negeta, Wlk. xxiv. 1105 (Feb. 1862) contrariata. 



Urbona, Wik. Jouru. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 183 (Nov. 



1862) siihlineata. 



Nagasena, Moore, Lep. Alk. p. 151 (1882) sublineata. 



Periplusia, HoU. Psyche, vii. p. 30 (1894) imhilicosta. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi uptnrned, the 2nd joint reaching to 

 vertex of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth with ridge of 

 scales above; eyes large, round; antennas of male ciliated; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibise moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal segments, long in male. 

 Pore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line absent, leaden grey 



with the base yellow molyhdota. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line present. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line arising from the 

 costa well before apex. 

 <■/'. Fore wino- with the ante- and postmedial lines oblique 



and almost meeting at inner margin approximans. 



i\ Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards or 

 excurved below costa. 

 a^. Fore wing with wedge-shaped chocolate-brown 

 patch from middle of costa and semicircular patch 



on costa towards apex stalactitis. 



b'^. Fore wing without claocolate-brown patches on costa. 

 a^. Fore wing grey-brown or reddish brown. 



a''. Fore wing with two small white discoidal spots, cinerascens. 

 b*. Fore wing without white discoidal spots. 



flS. Fore wing with diffused dark fascia below 



costal area nnbilicosfa. 



b^. Fore wing without dark fascia below costal 

 area. 

 a^. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial 



lines not closely approximated fhrnopepla. 



b^. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial 

 lines closely approximated except below 



costa, the area between them pale ochreoplaga. 



b^. Fore wing with the ground-colour white or 

 whitish. 

 a*. Fore wing without dark streak through the cell. 

 0,5. Fore wing without olive-yellow or green on 



medial area .' mesoleuca. 



i'l. Fore wing with olive-yellow medial line. 



«6. Fore wing with the basal inner area white, luminosa. 



