428 NOCTUID^. 



brown slightly ringed with white. Fore wing ochreous white 

 slightly tinged with rufous, the basal half of costa brownish, the 

 outer half of medial area and the terminal area brown ; a faint 

 inwardly oblique brown antemedial line with black point on costa ; 

 a slight oblique black discoidal striga ; postmedial line brown, 

 angled outwards below costa and at middle and inwards at discal 

 fold, incurved below vein 4, some white points with slight brown 

 streaks between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish 

 with brown suffusion before and beyond it, minutely waved, ex- 

 curved at middle ; cilia greyish mixed with brown and with dark 

 line at middle. Hind wing orange-yellow, the apex tinged with 

 brown, a faint brown subterminal line and fine terminal line ; cilia 

 yellowish tinged with brown and with fine brown line at middle. 

 Underside of fore wing orange irrorated with brown, the inner area 

 white, a dark shade from costa to lower angle of cell ; hind wing 

 orange slightly irrorated with brown, a terminal series of slight 

 black lunules. 



Hah. Tkansvaa-L (Pead), 1 d" type. Exp. 20 millim, 



5651. Ozarba flavipennis, n. sp. (Plate CLXI. fig. 27.) 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale rufous irrorated with fuscous ; 

 pectus and legs whitish irrorated with brown, the tarsi blackish 

 ringed with white. Fore wing with the basal half grey tinged with 

 rufous and irrorated with fuscous, the terminal half red-brown ; 

 subbasal line represented by two slight black striae from costa ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, blackish, waved ; a dark medial slightly 

 sinuous line bounding the grey area ; two blackish discoidal points ; 

 postmedial line double, excurved below costa and at middle and 

 slightly angled inwards at discal and submedian folds, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on 

 inner side by blackish, very slightly angled outwards at vein 7, 

 excuived at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series 

 of minute black points ; cilia with a fine pale line near tips. Hind 

 wing yellow irrorated with brown and suffused with reddish brown 

 on costal and terminal areas ; a curved brown postmedial line ; 

 cilia whitish with brown lines near base and tips ; the underside 

 yellow irrorated with fuscous brown especially on costal area except 

 towards base, diffused curved postmedial and subterminal lines, the 

 latter ending at vein 2. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Drage), 1 J , Annshaw (Aliss F. Barrett), 

 1 c? , 1 $ type. Exp. 24 millim. 



5652. Ozarba heliastis. (Plate CLXI. fig. 28.) 

 Metachrostis heliastis, Hinpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 410 (1902). 



Head and thorax greyish mixed with rufous ; abdomen orange 

 with some rufous at base of dorsum ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white, the fore tibiae and the tarsi fuscous 



