OLIGIA. 383 



on outer side, double at costa, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 angled inwards at discal fold, strongh' incurved and minutely waved 

 below vein 4, some ochreous points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line ochreous with slight brown shade on inner side and some slight 

 dark marks beyoud it at discal and submedian folds, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia dark brown with fine pale line at base. Hind wing greyish 

 nearly uniformly suffused with brown; cilia whitish with a brown 

 line through them; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, 

 the costal area ochreous thickly irrorated with large black scales, a 

 dark discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and slight waved 

 terminal line. 



5 . Ochreous and darJi brown with hardly a trace of rufous ; 

 fore wing with the postmedial area paler, a diffused dark streak in 

 submedian fold between ante- and postmedial lines, the terminal 

 area dark except towards apex. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Capetown (Trimen), 1 c? , 1 $ , type and type 

 rubrescens. Exp. 32 millim. 



3206. Oligia ambigua. (Plate CXVII. fig. 29.) 



Hadena ambigua, Wlk. xv. 1727 (1868). 



Ba7}ia exsiccata, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 1G9 (1860). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with fuscous and greyish ; 

 palpi black, the extremity of 2nd joint white ; frons black at sides ; 

 tegulae with black medial line ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with fuscous, the dorsal crests blackish. Fore 

 wing greyish brown, the medial and terminal areas suffused with 

 fuscous, the postmedial area greyer on inner half; a slight black 

 streak below base of cell ; subbasal line double, black filled in with 

 greyish, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 double, filled in with greyish, oblique, waved; claviform defined by 

 black, acute at extremity and with blackish streak from it to post- 

 medial line ; orbicular and reuiform defined by black, the former 

 small, round, the latter elliptical, greyish with its centre defined by 

 brown and slight black streaks beyond it ; an indistinct diffused 

 medial line oblique from costa to median nervure, then incurved ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double filled in with gre\ , bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate and often with white points beyond it on 

 the veins, oblique to vein 5 near subterminal line, then strongly 

 incurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 pale, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at 

 discal fold to near postmedial line ; a terminal series of black points 

 with whitish lunules on their inner side ; cilia with a fine pale line 

 at base. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown, in female more uniformly suffused with 

 brown ; a small dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line ; 

 cilia whitish with a dark line through them ; the underside white, 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with large brown scales, a 

 black discoidal spot and postmedial line crenulate on costal half. 



