Genus MAGUSA. t. 



Type. 



Magusa, Wlk. xi. 762(1857) orhifera. 



Sasu7iaga, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 342 tenehrosa. 



Callixena, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 324 (1891) versicolora. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and smoothly scaled, the 3rd short, porrect ; frons smooth, 

 tufted with hair ; eyes large, round ; antennce of male ciHated ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, and with slight double ridge-like crest ; tibiie moderately 

 fringed with hair; fore coxaj of male tufted with hair; abdomen with dorsal 

 crests on basal segments. Fore wing very long and narrow, the costa arched, 

 the apex rounded, tbe terrden evenly and very obliquely curved, hardly crenu- 

 late ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the rather long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with wedge-shaped black patch below base of cell. 



a. Fore wing with the ground-colour olive-green olivaria. 



b. Fore wing with the ground-colour rufous suffused with 



purple-brown ceiiisfis. 



B. Fore wing with fine black streak below base of cell. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line distinct, white leiicorina. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line indistinct, black. 



«'-. Fore wing with the streak above extremity of vein 4 



white and oblique versicolora. 



b'-. Fore wing with the pale streak above extremity of vein 4 



indistinct and longitudinal tenebrosa. 



C. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell orbifera. 



2791. Magusa olivaria, n, sp. (Plate CIX. fig. 7.) 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with rufous ; palpi 

 with some red-brown and black at sides ; frons with red-brown 

 and black lateral bars ; tegulae with white line near tips defined 

 by black scales, some black on thorax behind them ; pectus and 

 legs whitish mixed with red-brown, the tibise and tarsi banded 

 black and whitish ; abdomen fuscous brown, the crests rufous and 

 whitish, the ventral surface rufous. Fore wing olive-j^ellow, the 

 costal half suffused with black to medial line and the terminal area 

 suifused with black obliquely to below apex ; an oblique whitish 

 fascia from base of costa along vein 1 to antemedial line, with black 

 patch above it at middle and black streak above inner margin 

 before the antemedial line ; subbasal line double, blackish, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double filled in with 

 olive, oblique, waved, angled outwards below costa and inwards on 

 vein 1 ; orbicular small, round, olive defined by black ; reniform 

 olive defined by black on inner side and by a few black scales on 

 outer, a line of black scales in centre ; an indistinct waved dark 

 medial line ; postmedial line double, prominently filled in with 

 white, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, strongly 

 incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa on a 

 brownish patch with slight black streak below costa ; subterminal 

 line white, angled outwards at vein 7, acutely inwards at discal 



