142 NOCTUIDJE. 



■white, the veins, inner and terminal areas suffused with brown ; a 

 discoidal lunule and postmedial line excurved at discal fold ; a fine 

 dark terminal line slightly defined by white on inner side ; cilia 

 white with a brown line through them ; the underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, the discoidal lunule 

 and postmedial line strong, a diftused subterminal band. 



Hah. PoRXUGTJESE E. Africa ; Cape Colony, Grahamstowu, 1 J , 

 ■Capetown, 1 6 ■ Exp. 36-40 millim. 



Genus ANDESIA, nov. 



Type, A. a'uistis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 

 :2nd joint fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd porrect; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, rounded; antennae of male almost simple, somewhat laminate ; head and 

 thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the frons and vertex of head with tufts of 

 hair, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; pectus and tibiae clothed 

 with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only and lateral fringes of 

 hair. Fore wing short, the costa very slightly concave, the ternien obliquely 

 curved, the inner margin slightly lobed near base; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; (5 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; 6 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 Avith the cell near base only. 



2249, Aiidesia cenistis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with black ; palpi blackish 

 at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulse with black line 

 near tips ; tatsi ringed with black ; abdomen ochreous brown. 

 Fore wing pale ochreous irrorated with fuscous and slightly tinged 

 with purplish, the medial and terminal areas sufi^used with blackish ; 

 a difi'iised black streak below base of cell, a slight subbasal streak 

 in cell and some scales on vein 1 ; subbasal line represented by a 

 black striga from costa ; antemedial line double, strongly excurved ; 

 orbicular small, round, with black centre and ochreous annulus 

 defined by black; reuiform a small ochreous lunule obscurely 



Fig, 44. — Andesia cenistis, c?. }. 



defined by black ; an indistinct diffused medial line excurved 

 round orbicular, then incurved ; postmedial line double, oblique 

 from costa to vein 6, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, 

 some slight pale and dark points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line formed of pale ochreous striae except towards costa, delined by 

 slight somewhat dentate black marks on inner side, and with 



