^^ KOCTUId;. 



Ijent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 2, then bent inwards 

 and erect to inner margin, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 the veins of terminal half and interspaces of terminal area with 

 slight dark streaks ; subterminal line represented by slight whitish 

 points from costa to vein 5, then by a white line from the white 

 streak to inner margin, incurved below vein 3, a darker brown 

 patch before it on costa ; the termen with series of pale red-brown 

 lunules on the whitish area defined by white on inner side. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal 

 area suffused wdth reddish brown, cilia w'hite. Underside of fore 

 wing suffused with fuscous, the terminal area w^hite from apex to 

 vein 3, the costa white irrorated with rufous to beyond middle ; 

 liind wing white with a subterminal dark shade from beloAv vein 7 

 to vein 3. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the costal area pale interrupted by the 

 dark patch before subterminal line, a black streak below base of 

 cell defined by white below^ 



Ab. 2. Fore wing wholly suffused with grey, the costal half 

 tinged with pale brown except in end of cell and the dark patch 

 before subterminal line, a black streak below base of cell defined 

 by white below and a black streak from lower angle of cell 

 to termen interrupted by the white oblique streak at middle of 

 termen. 



Hah. Gold Coast, Ashanti, Obuassi (Bergman), 1 2 ; Natal, 

 Durban (Leigh), 1 $ ; C. CoIont, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett), 2 $ ; 

 Madagasca'k, Nossi Ee (Saahmller), 1 $ . £'^p. 32-50 miUim. 



2795. Magusa tenebrosa. (riate CIX. fig. 10.) 



Hadena tenebrosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 30 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 226. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black ; palpi with 

 black marks at sides of 2nd and 3rd joints ; frons with lateral black 

 bars ; vertex of head with blackish patch ; tegulse with black lines 

 at middle and near tips and whitish patch at middle of tips; 

 patagia with black streak near upper edge angled outwards at 

 middle ; pectus whitish and rufous, bright rufous in front, the tarsi 

 black banded -with, rufous ; abdomen fuscous brown, the crests and 

 extremity rufous, the genital tuft whitish, the ventral surface 

 rufous. Fore wing pale red-brown suffused in parts with deep red- 

 brown and slightly irrorated with fuscous, the veins of terminal half 

 with slight black streak ; subbasal line represented by double 

 oblique dark striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line double, 

 blackish, irregularly dentate, angled outwards below costa and in 

 submedian fold ; orbicular defined by black, round ; reniform 

 defined by a slight double black bar on inner side and streak above, 

 hardly traceable and dentate on outer side; traces of a waved 

 medial line ; postmedial line very indistinct, double, strongly bent 



