510 NOCTUID.E. 



3372. Diparopsis castanea. 



Blparopsis castanea, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 294 (1902). 



c5" . Head and thorax purplish pink mixed with whitish and some 

 fuscous ; antennae ochreous white, pectus ochreous white, purplish 

 piuk in front ; abdomen ochreousi white. Fore win^ purplish pink 

 mixed with whitish, the costa irrorated with olive scales ; antemedial 

 line whitish, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then erect, 

 dark brown band before it from costa to median nervure and 

 by a wedge-shaped olive patch in submedian interspace ; an indistinct 

 fine brownish medial line, oblique from costa to upper angle of cell, 

 then inwardly oblique ; a whitish postmedial line, excurved from 

 costa to vein 4, then oblique, a similar subterminal line less incurved 



Fig. 106. — Diparopsis castanea, (^ . \. 



to costa, with blackish suffusion between them from vein 3 to inner 

 margin ; cilia pale olive mixed with fuscous. Hind wing ochreous 

 tinged with pinkish on terminal area ; cilia yellowish white ; the 

 underside yellowish white, the costal and terminal area to vein 2 

 irrorated with rufous. 



g . Fore wing pinker and less purple, the costal area not irrorated 

 with olive, no band before costal half of antemedial line and the 

 patch below the cell paler, the area between postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines on inner area and the cilia pale olive. 



IJab. Uganda (H. H. King), 1 $ ; Lorenzo MAKatJEz, Beira 

 (Johnson), 1 J , 1 ? , Delagoa Bay {Mrs. Monteiro), type f $ in 

 Coll. Druce. Exp. 30 millim. 



Larva. Destructive to cotton. 



Genus OROPLEXIA, nov. 



Type, 0. decorata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the second joint reaching about 

 to vertex of head and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd moderate; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male cihated ; thorax clothed with 

 long hair mixed with a few hair-like scales and witliout distinct crests ; pectus 

 clothed with long hair ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with some 

 rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing 

 with the apex rectangular, the terraen evenly ciu'ved and slightly crenulate ; 

 veins .3 and 6 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form theareole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulai's j 6, 

 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base onl}'. 



