486 



NOCTTJIDiE. 



the inner margin with scale-tooth near tornus ; veins 3 and 6 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 fi-om angle of cell ; 

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

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



5733. CEderastria ectorhoda. 



(Ederastria ectorhoda, Hmpsn. Ann, S, Afr. Mus. ii. p. 375 (1902). 



c? . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with bright rufous, 

 palpi black ; pectus aud legs with some whitish mixed, the tarsi 

 fuscous ringed with white; abdomen rufous mixed with dark 

 brown, the crests tipped with black. Fore wing black-brown 

 mixed with some rufous and with a silvery grej^ gloss, the terminal 

 area bright rufous with a black spot glossed with grey at apex ; 

 subbasal line represented by double black strife filled in with rufous 

 from costa ; antemedial line double, black tilled in with rufous, 

 sinuous, with an oblique black mark before it above inner margin ; 

 claviform moderate, with slight grey annulus defined by black ; 



Fig. 141. — (Ederastria cctorlioda, (^ . f. 



orbicular and reniform with rufous annuli defined by black, the 

 former round, the latter elliptical : medial line indistinct, oblique 

 to reniform and incurved below the cell ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with pale rufous and defined by pale rufous on outer side, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some minute whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale rufous, angled outwards at veins 

 7, 6, 4, 3, then incurved ; a fine waved dark terminal line ; cilia 

 pale rufous at base. Hind wing pure white ; a fine red-brown 

 terminal line ; cilia red-brown at apex ; the underside with the 

 costal area tinged with rufous, a slight discoidal spot and rather 

 diffused curved postmedial line from costa to vein 2, 



Rab. Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 3 S type. Exp. 28- 

 30 millim. 



Genus ORTHOLEUCA, nov. 



Type, 0. alhiluna. 



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

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons with rounded 

 prominence with slight raised corneous ring at extremity ; eyes large, round ; 

 antenn£e of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and 



