PAEASTICHTIS. 79 



2815. Parasticlitis nigricostata, n. sp. (Plate CIX. fig. 22.) 



Head and thorax pa]e ochreous ; palpi tinged with rufous at 

 sides ; vertex of head purplish brown ; tegulse with three dark 

 lines with purplish grej- between them ; legs irrorated with dark 

 brown, the tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous dorsally 

 suffused with fuscous leaving pale segmental bands. Fore wing 

 pale ochreous ; the costal area suffused with purplish fuscous to 

 near apex expanding in cell before and between the stigmata ; sub- 

 basal line represented bj- double oblique striae from costa, the 

 antemedial line hj double oblique striae from costa and a faint 

 elongate double tooth above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform 

 small with slight rufous centres, undefined except by the dark 

 expansion of costal area, the former very oblique and pointed above, 

 a black streak in cell before and between them ; black streaks 

 beyond the cell above veins 7, 6 ; postmedial line hardly traceable, 

 very strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, very oblique 

 below vein 4 and angled inwards in submediau fold, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented b}^ traces 

 of oblique white and fuscous streaks in the interspaces ; an oblique 

 wedge-shaped grey mark from termen below apex ; some slight 

 dark points on termen ; cilia ochreous and rufous. Hind wing 

 brownish ochreous, the lower part of cell and area below it semi- 

 hyaline, the terminal area broadly suffused with fuscous except 

 towards tornus ; cilia ochreous. Under side of fore wing ochreous 

 suffused with fuscous and with purplish beyond the cell, a puncti- 

 form black postmedial line, ochreous patches on termen at apex and 

 middle ; hind wing whitish, the costal area ochreous irrorated with 

 black, the terminal area suffiised with fuscous and with purplish 

 towards apex, a slight waved postmedial line with dark points on 

 the veins and some points on termen. 



(5 . Abdomen dorsally fuscous except the crests and anal tuft ; 

 fore wing sufi"used in parts with pink ; hind wing with the costal 

 and inner areas, the veins and terminal area fuscous ; underside 

 of fore wing with the ground-colour white, hind wing white, the 

 costal area irrorated with black, 



Hab. Sierra Leone (Austen). 1 2 type ; Mauritius, Curepipe 

 (TuUoch), 1 cJ . E.vp. 52 millim. 



2816. Parasiichtis cucnlliformis. (Plate CIX. fig. 23.) 



Hadena ciKulliformis Grote, Check List, Noct. p. 27 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Aiu. p. 139. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with ochreous and purjde-brown ; 

 frons with lateral blackish bars ; tegulae Avith medial black line ; 

 patagia with purple-brown streaks near edges; dorsal crest blackish 

 mixed with grey ; tibiae and tarsi slightly streaked with brown : 

 abdomen pale rufous, dorsally suffused with t'uscons mixed with greJ^ 

 Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous, the veins with fine dark 

 streaks, the interspaces streaked with rufous ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by double oblique rufous strias from costa ; a rufous streak 



