392 NOCTITIB.E. 



Genus NEOCHEOSTIS. rpyp^ 



Neochrostis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 406 (1902) diplogramma. 



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

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate : frons with pointed 

 beak-shaped prominence with somewhat trifid process below it and the frons 

 produced to points at sides; eyes large, round; antennffi of male somewhat 

 laminate and minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales 

 and without crests ; tibise smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base 

 only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from 

 angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

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



5595. Neochrostis diplogramma. 



Neochrostis diplogramma, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 407 (1902). 



(S . Head and thorax red-brown; palpi whitish, dark at tips; 

 the tegulse with slight dark medial line ; pectus and legs pale 

 rufous, the tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen pale rufous 

 tinged with brown, the ventral surface whitish. Pore wing rufous 

 suffused with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by slight double 

 dark points below costa and cell ; antemedial line double, black, 



Fig. 125. — Neochrostis diplogramma, (^ . \. 



evenly curved ; orbicular small, round, defined by black and with 

 blackish point in centre; reniform rufous defined by black and 

 with some brown in centre, narrow, strongly angled inwards on 

 median nervure to a spot obliquely placed below orbicular; a black 

 medial shade, oblique to reniform and incurved below the cell; 

 postmedial line double, black, dilated at costa, excurved below 

 costa, slightly angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below 

 vein 4, some yellow points beyond it on costa and a black shade 

 from below costa to vein 4, angled outwards at veins 6 and 4 ; 

 subterminal line yellowish, very slightly excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle ; a slightly waved black terminal line. Hind wing 

 orange with slightly brown streaks in cell, on vein 1, and above 

 inner margin ; a small discoidal spot and sinuous subterminal line 

 with dark streaks beyond it on the veins ; a black terminal line ; 

 cilia brown with a slight yellow line at base. Underside of fore 

 wing orange tinged with brown, a dark discoidal spot and curved 



