?94 NOCTUII)^. 



white; legs tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous white tinged 

 with rufous and irrorated with a few dark scales ; a faint double 

 antemedial line filled in with whitish, inwardly oblique and slightly- 

 sinuous ; a slight whitish discoidal bar faintly defined by brown, 

 constricted at middle and with three black points on it ; postmedial 

 line faint, double filled in with whitish, oblique from costa to 

 vein 7 and incurved below vein 4 ; a subterminal series of faint 

 fuscous points excurved at middle ; a series of black points just 

 before termen ; cilia rufous at base, blackish at tips. Hind wing 

 white tinged with rufous from lower angle of cell to termen 

 between discal and submedian folds ; a series of black points just 

 before termen ; cilia tinged with rufous and mixed with black at 

 tips ; the underside white faintly tinged with rufous. 



Hob. Gold Coast, Accra {Sir G. Garter'), 1 J type. Exp. 

 20 millim. 



5442. Corgatha drepanodes, n. sp. (Plate CLVII. fig. 17.) 



(S . Head and tegulee greyish rufous ; thorax and abdomen grey, 

 the latter slightly irrorated with black. Fore wing grey sparsely 

 irrorated with large black scales ; a black point in middle of cell 

 with the double dark waved antemedial line just beyond it, bent 

 inwards to costa ; reniform with blackish annulus and black points 

 in upjjer and lower parts ; postmedial line indistinctly double 

 filled in with white, oblique from costa to vein 6, oblique and 

 slightly sinuous below vein 4, some white points with black streaks 

 between them beyond it on costa ; a crenulate whitish subterminal 

 line with small blackish spots on its inner side ; the terminal area 

 browner ; a series of black points just before termen ; a fine brown 

 terminal line ; cilia dark brown. Hind wing grey tinged with 

 brown and sparsely irrorated with black ; a black point at lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line brown defined on outer side by 

 white, bisinuate ; a minutely crenulate whitish subterminal line 

 with slight dark spots before it ; a series of black points before 

 termen slightly defined by whitish ; a fine brown terminal line ; 

 cilia dark brown with a fine pale line at base ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with brown 

 except on inner area ; a black discoidal bar, a slightly sinuous 

 brown postmedial line, subterminal series of small dark spots, and 

 series of black points before termen. 



Hub. Be. E. Africa, ivikuyu (CrcnvsJiay), 1 J type. Ea^y. 

 28 millim. 



5443. Corgatha ruficeps. (Plate CLVII. fig. 18.) 



Thermesia ruficrps, Wlk. Jouru. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 186 (1864); 



Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 70, pi. i. f. 17. 

 Thermesia sparsa, Wlk. Joiirn. Liiiii. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 187 (1864). 

 Corgatha castaneicej)s, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 519 (1896). 



(5 . Head and tegulje bright rufous ; thorax and abdomen pale 



