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5159. Eublemma nycticliroa, n. sp. (Plate CLII. fig. 14.) 



2 , Hear], thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with some 

 grey ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen pale brown 

 irrorated with fuscous, the tarsi black with pale rings. Fore wing 

 glossy chocolate-brown suffused with fuscous black and slightly 

 irrorated with grey ; antemedial line very indistinct, double, a 

 blackish medial shade ; postmedial line very indistinct, double filled 

 in witb greyish, oblique from costa to vein 6 and incurved below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line hardly traceable, exeurved to near termeu 

 at middle ; a fine dark terminal line defined on inner side by a very 

 slight whitish line. Hind wing very dark glossy chocolate-brown, 

 the cilia grey brown with a slight pale line at base ; the underside 

 slightly irrorated with grey and with traces of dark discoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Abyssinia, Atbara R. (Gerrard), 1 §; Br. E. Africa, Eb 

 Urru (Betton), 1 $ tj'pe. jSa^j. 18 millim. 



*5160. Eublemma candicans. 



Nuctua candicams, Einbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 10. f. 5 (1S5S), c?; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 227. 

 Noctua extranea, Embr. Cat. Lep. S. Aud. pi. 13. f. 2 (1858), (^ . 

 Noctua extraria, Embr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 15 t". 1 (1858), §. 



$ , Head, thorax, and abdomen white suffused with ochreons 

 brown. Fore wing white sufiused with brown leaving the base, 

 costal area to postmedial line, and cell white ; a faint diffused waved 

 brown antemedial line ; a few black scales in middle of cell and a 

 black discoidal striga ; medial line brown, rather diffused, oblique 

 from costa to beyond upper angle of cell and inwardly oblique below 

 vein 4 ; postmedial line brown, slightly defined on outer side by 

 white, oblique from costa to vein 7 and inwardly oblique below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line white, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and exeurved at middle, defined on outer side by small blackish 

 spots ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia brownish with white line 

 at base. Hind wing white suffused with reddish brown, the basal 

 area whiter; cilia brownish with a white line at base. Underside 

 of fore wing brown, the inner area white, the veins of terminal 

 area slightly streaked with white ; hind wing creamy white irrorated 

 with a few black-brown scales, the terminal area tinged with 

 brown. 



S . Ground-colour nearly uniform fuscous grey. 



Ab. 1. (S . Ground-colour whitish, fore wing with some brownish 

 suffusion before subterminal line ; hind wing with diffiised brown 

 subterminal line. 



Hah. SpAiif, Andalusia, Malaga in Coll. Piingeler; Algeria. Exp. 

 34 millim. 



