248 NOCTUIB^, 



a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing greyish rufous with slight 

 dark irroration, the base white ; a dark diseoidal striga ; post- 

 medial line doui3le filled in with white, excurved below costa, then 

 slightly sinuous, a diff'used jrellowish band beyond it ; a curved 

 whitish subterminal line ; a series of black points just before 

 termen ; a fine black terminal line ; the underside white thickly 

 irrorated with brown, a black diseoidal point, indistinct postmedial 

 and subterminal lines, and series of black points before termen. 



Hob. SiEEEA Leone {Clements, Dudgeon), 2 § ; S. Nigbeia, Old 

 Calabar {Grompton), 1 $ , Olokemeji {Dudgeon), 1 $ , Ogove R., 1 6 

 co-type discifascia ; ComGO (Maisden), 1 $ type; Gaboon; Mashona- 

 lAND (Dobbie), 1 $ ; Teansvaal, White R. {Coohe), 1 $ ; Natal, 

 Durban {Burrows, Leigh), 1 cJ, 3 $ type costalis. Ecep. 16-22 

 millim. 



5373. Oruza rufiplaga. (Plate CLYI. fig. 5.) 



Vittappressa rufiflaga, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. siii. p. 206 (1906). 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen violaceous grey-white, the 

 head and base of tegulae suff'used with rufous ; palpi black-brown, 

 white at tips ; antennae ringed with blackish ; fore coxae, femora, 

 and tibiae blackish, the hind legs with some blackish at extremity 

 of femora and base of tibia. Fore wing violaceous grey-white ; 

 the costal edge rufous towards base ; a faint waved white subbasal 

 line from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line white faintly defined on 

 each side by brown, bent inwards to costa, then sinuous ; a blackish 

 point on its outer side at costa ; a slight rufous diseoidal lunule ; 

 postmedial line white faintly defined on each side by brown and 

 with black points on its inner side at costa and inner margin, very 

 oblique from costa to vein 7, somewhat incurved at discal fold and 

 strongly below vein 4, a broad rufous band with highly sinuate 

 edges from termen below apex to postmedial line at discal fold and 

 thence to inner margin ; some slight brown streaks on apical part 

 of costa ; subterminal line white, dentate, almost obsolete towards 

 costa, angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 3, 

 defined on outer side by rufous lunules below the rufous band and 

 with rufous fascia from it to termen below vein 3 ; a terminal 

 series of plight rufous spots ; cilia rufous at the band and fascia. 

 Hind wing violaceous grey-white ; a waved white medial line 

 angled inwards at discal fold and excurved at median nervules, 

 defined on inner side by a narrow rufous band towards inner 

 margin ; a waved white subterminal line defined on outer side by 

 rufous lunules below vein 6 and with rufous band between it and 

 medial line below vein 4 ; a fine waved rufous terminal line ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, 

 a dark bar from middle of costa, dift'used curved subterminal band, 

 and terminal series of small lunules. 



• Hab. Be. New Gitinba, Dinawa {Pratt), type f 5 in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. E,rj>. 34 millim. 



