628 NOCTUIDJE. 



purple and irrorated with some black; a white antemedial band 

 edged by waved black lines, narrowing to costa and usually with 

 a few dark scales ab middle representing the antemedial line ; 

 orbicular rei^resented by a slight black spot, the reniform by a 

 black spot with white striga on its outer edge ; an indistinct sinuous 

 Mack medial line ; postmedial line black slightly defined by white 

 on outer side and with wedge-shaped white patch at costa and some 

 olack before it at discal and submedian folds, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa and incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, rufous 

 with black marks before and beyond it, excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules defined on 

 inner side by a waved white line ; cilia blackish with more or less 

 white at apex, middle, and tornus. Hind wing fuscous slightly 

 irrorated with white ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous, a dark discoidal bar, curved postmedial line defined by 

 whitish on outer side, and moz-e or less prominent subterminal 

 series of white points. 



Ab. 1. d • Fore wing with the cilia white with dark spots ; hind 

 wing white with slight discoidal bar and curved postmedial line, 

 the terminal area suffused with fuscous from apex to vein 2. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Machakos {Grawshay), 1 c? , Kikuyu, Kiu 

 (Crawshay), i d, ^ $ , Kilimakiu, 1 ?; IS". Rhodesia. Kambove 

 Distr. (Neave), 2 5 ; Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 1 d" , 1 $ , 

 Umtali {Marshall), 1 5 ; Rhodesia, Bulawayo (Eyles), 1 c? ; 

 Transvaal, White R. (Coohe), 1 $ , Piet Retief (Janse), 1 $ , 

 Johannesburg {Ooolce), 1 $ . Exp. 22-24 millim. 



6951. Eulocastra hypotsenia. (Plato CLXVII. fig. 28.) 



Miorophijsa hypotcenia, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Men. iv. p. 173 (1860). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen ohocolate-brown mixed with 

 grey, the last with whitish segmental bands ; palpi, pectus, legs, 

 and ventral surface of abdomen white irrorated with fuscous. Fore 

 wing glossy grey suffused and irrorated with chocolate-brown, the 

 medial and apical areas rather darker ; subbasal line indistinct, 

 double, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double filled 

 in with white, almost straight and with a dark shade on its outer 

 edge ; reniform with whitish annulus, a black bar on its inner edge, 

 oblique, its lower extremity produced and with dark patches 

 beyond and below it ; postmedial line double filled in with yellowish 

 and defined by white on outer side, slightly excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; subterminal line grey defined on inner side by dark 

 brown, very slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a dark 

 terminal line ; cilia with a slight dark medial line. Hind wing 

 white, the base tinged with brown ; a brown medial band excurved 

 beyond the cell and conjoined to the upper and lower extremities 

 of a quadrate discoidal spot, excurved in submedian interspace ; i 



