594 NOCTUID^. 



5888. Eustrotia albifascia. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 19.) 



Anthoecia albifascia, Wlk. xxxiii. 771 (1866). 



$ . (Head -wanting) ; thorax red-brown (abdomen wanting). 

 Fore wing red-brown ; subbasal line represented by a slight blackish 

 striga from costa ; antemedial line very indistinct, double, oblique, 

 sinuous ; orbicular represented by a minute pale spot defined by 

 black scales ; medial line black, slightly angled outwards below 

 costa, oblique to vein 2, then erect, sinuous, a broad diffused grey- 

 white band beyond it with the small reniform on it, faintly defined 

 by brown and with black point on centre of outer edge ; post- 

 medial line on the whitish band, very indistinct, brown, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subtermitial line slight, white, double 

 below vein 7, angled outwards at veins 6, 4, 1, with slight black 

 streaks beyond it above and below discal fold and below vein 3 ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing orange-yellow slightly 

 irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area suflPused with red- 

 brown ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia brown with yellow line at 

 base and whitish tips. 



Bab. Cape CoLowr (Sir A. Smith), 1 § type, Exp. 24 millim. 



5889. Eustrotia citripennis, n. sp. (Plate CLXYI. fig. 20.) 



S . Head and thorax dark olive-brown mixed with some grey ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with brown ; pnlpi, pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white slightly irrorated with brown, the foie 

 and mid tibiae and the tarsi black ringed with white. Pore wing 

 with the basal half black-brown, tinged with grey to the ante- 

 medial line, the postmedial area white, the terminal area grey suffused 

 with black-brown ; subbasal line represented by double black striae 

 from costa ; antemedial line indistinctly double, angled outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved ; medial line double, the inner 

 line indistinct, waved, the outer black, oblique and sinuous below 

 the cell ; reniform represented by a brownish bar with two black 

 points beyond it ; postmedial line brownish with black spot at 

 costa, excurved round the cell, then bent inwards to lower angle 

 and erect to inner margin, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line slight, whitish, angled outwards at vein 7, then 

 minutely waved, excurved at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; 

 the apex whitish ; a punctiform black terminal line with some white 

 at middle and tornus. Hind wing pale yellow, the termen suffused 

 with brown from apex to vein 2 ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia 

 tinged with brown at base, white at tips ; the underside with 

 apical fuscous patch. 



Hah. Bjb. E. Africa, Machakos {Crawshay), 1 J type. Exjp. 

 24 millim. 



