632 NOCTUID^. 



inner area with a purplish tinge ; a brown point at upper angle of 

 cell ; a very obliqnely curved red-hrown line from apex to inner 

 margin before middle : a very indistinct subterminal brown line, 

 oblique and waved to vein 3, then incurved and forming a Avedge- 

 shaped patch on inner area; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing ochreous white suffused with brown, the costal area 

 whiter ; the underside brownish white, with indistinct diffused 

 curved brown postmedial line in male. 



Hah. SiKHiM {Atkinson), 1 S type albescens; Bhutan (Dudgeon), 

 1 2 ; Assam, Margherita ; Burma, Rangoon, 1 $ ; Bokneo, Sarawak 

 ( Wallace), type f and type f leuco2)7icea in Mus. Oxon, Ex2J. 6 30, 

 $ 28 millim. 



7075. Negeta lacteata. 



JJrhnna lacteata, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1910, p. 414, pi. xxxvi. f. 21. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen creamy white, the palpi tinged with 

 rufous behind, the antennae tinged with fuscous. Fore wing creamy 

 white irrorated with a few black-brown scales ; a black discoidal 

 point; postmedial line brown, arising very near apex, angled out- 

 wards below apex, then verv oblique and slightly sinuous to middle 

 of inner margin, some dark points on it towards apex ; a sliglit 

 oblique minutely waved brownish subterminal line somewhat ex- 

 curved at middle ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia finely 

 pencilled with brown. Hind wing ochreous white. 



Hah. jST.E. Rhodesia, N. Luangwa, Mt. Ulungu {Neave), 1 J type, 

 Luangwa R., Lusangazi {Neave), 1 J . Exp. 26 millim. 



7076. Negeta nivea. (Plate CXCI. fig. 1.) 



Wcstermannia nivea, Hinpsu. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. '616 (1902). 



S . Head and thorax pure white ; palpi, antennae, and legs tinged 

 with ochreous ; abdomen white slightly tinged with ochreous. Eore 

 wing silvery white ; the costal edge ochreous ; traces of minute 

 brownish antemedial spots below the cell and above inner margin ; 

 a very indistinct maculate yellow medial line slightly bent out- 

 wards below the costa, then oblique ; traces of a brownish spot at 

 lower angle of cell ; an indistinct oblique waved brownish post- 

 medial line ; an indistinct maculate yellow subterminal line, slightly 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of brownish 

 striae ; cilia slightly irrorated with brown. Hind wing white, the 

 terminal area faintly tinged with brown. 



Hah. Be. C. Afkica, Mlanji Boma {Neave), 1 J ; Mashonaland, 

 Salisbury {Marshall), 4 S type. Exp. 26-30 millim. 



Genus ODONTESTIS, nov. 



Type, 0. prosticta. 



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

 of head aud moderately scaled, the brd moderate ; frons smooth, with tuft of 



