THTATIEINA.- — EXTEA. 651 



vein 7 and snbmedian fold extending to the siibterminal creamy- 

 white line which is very oblique and defined by red-brown towards 

 costa, then excurved to near termen and bent inwards below the 

 olive-brown patch to the postmedial line at submedian fold, its 

 outer edge defined by a very slightly sinuous chocolate-hrown line ; 

 the narrow terminal area greyish strongly irrorated with blackish. 

 Hind wing white, the veins towards termen and the termen slightly 

 tinged with red-brown ; the underside with the apical area irrorated 

 with a few black scales. 



2 . Hind wing suffused with red-brown, the cilia whitish ; the 

 underside ochreons whitish with slight discoidal point and faint 

 diffused postmedial and subterminal shades. 



ITab. Geem. E. Africa, Victoria Nyanza; N, Ehodesia, Katanga 

 Distr. (Neave), 1 § ; Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 1 § ; 

 Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 J , 2 5 • Exp. 34-36 millim. 



Genus EXYRA. 



Type. 



Exyra, Grote, Check-List Noct. p. 26 (1875) semicrocea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely uptui-ned. the 2iid joint reaching 

 to about middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd 

 moderate ; frons with rather beak-like pointed prominence hidden in the rough 

 hair of frons ; eyes large, round ; antenna of male laminate and ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with long rough hair and spatulate scales and without crests ; tibite 

 fringed with rather long hair; abdomen long and without crests. Fore wing 

 rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 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 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. 



A. Fore wing purplish crimson rolandiana. 



B. Fore wing black-brown slightly irrorated with orange-red 



scales fax. 



0. Fore wing yellow with the terminal area black-brown. 

 a. Fore wing with antemedial, medial, and postmedial 



black-brown bands ridivgsi. 



h. Fore wing without bands, the basal half yellow, the 



terminal half black-brown semicrocea. 



5987. Exyra rolandiana. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 18.) 



Exyra rolandiana., Grote, Psyche, ii. p. 38 (1877); id. 111. Essay, p. 64, 

 pi. 3. f. 35 ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 306. 



cJ . Head and thorax crimson mixed with yellow; pectus and legs 

 brown, the fore tibiae crimson, the tarsi pale yellow ; abdomen brown, 

 the anal tuft tipped with crimson. Fore wing deep purplish crimson 

 slightly irrorated with brown ; traces of an antemedial line with a 

 broad yellow band beyond it from middle of cell to inner margin ; an 

 elliptical yellow discoidal spot ; traces of an oblique line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin, with a yellow bar beyond it from sub- 



