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NOCTTJID^. 



wing dark reddish brown, pale at base ; cilia ochreous at base ; the 

 underside ochreous suffused with red-brown, the inner area darker. 

 Hab. Algeria, Bone, in Coll. Oberthilr. Exjj., S 42, $ 

 36 millim. 



Subsp. 1. datinl, Obertli. Et. Ent. xiii. p. 30, pi. 6. f. 38 (1892). 

 S • Pore wing much paler ; ochreous tinged with brown and 

 slightly suffused with fuscous ; the subbasal line reduced to points 

 below costa and cell; the antemedial line more oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold ; the claviform not so dark ; the orbicular and reni- 

 form ochreous defined b}' black and confluent on median nervure, the 

 whitish on inner margin without black streak above it ; the post- 

 medial area brownish ochreous. Hind wing ochreous white, the 

 terminal area suffused with brown. 



Hab. Turns, Letref, type t J in Coll. Oberthiir. Exp. 40 millim. 



Sect. III. Auteniite of male serrate ; female with the wings fully developed. 



2247. Uloclilseiia fumea. 



Heliophohus fimea, Hmpsn. Adii. S. Air. Miis. ii. p. 280 (1902). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish grey mixed with fuscous. 

 Pore wing brownish grey irrorated with fuscous ; antemedial line 

 black, somewhat diffused, curved, slightly waved ; claviform and 

 orbicular absent ; reniform a small black lunule ; postmedial line 



Fig. 42. — Ulochlcsna fumca, J. \. 



black, obsolescent towards costa, bent outwards below costa to 

 towards apex, then minutely dentate, obliquely curved to vein 4, 

 then incurved and oblique to inner margin ; a black terminal line. 

 Hind wing grey-white slightly tinged with brown ; the underside 

 with slight discoid al spot. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 1 d' , 1 $ type. 

 Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus CHAHIDEA. 



lype. 

 Charidea, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 60 (1862) elegantissima.. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with long hair below, the 3rd moderate ; Irons smooth, with transverse ridge 

 of scales ; eyes large, reniform ; antennie of male bipectinate with moderate 

 branches ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, vertex of head with 

 transverse ridge of scales, the pro- and ine'^athorax with spreading crests ; 

 tibias fringed with hair on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base and 

 lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the apex slightly produced, the 



