sEcusio. 491 



Sect. II. (Secusio). Antenna) of female ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour whitish or yeUowish mania. 



B. Fore wing grey-brown, with postmedial series of whitish spots strigata. 



2097. Secusio mania. (Plate L. fig. 15.) 



Secui^io mcmia, Druce, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 672 (1888) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 419. 



Head orange, the palpi except at base, lower part of frons, and a 

 spot on vertex black ; antennae black, with some white on shaft 

 above ; tegiilse orange with black spots ; thorax whitish, with black 

 streaks on patagia and vertex, the metathorax with some orange ; 

 pectus orange, with black spots ; legs whitish striped with black ; 

 abdomen orange-yellow above, with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral 

 series of black points, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing 

 whitish or yellowish; the veins of basal half whitish defined by brown 

 streaks, of terminal half brown ; a more or less developed diffused 

 medial brown band from costa to below cell ; the terminal area 

 suffused with brown broadly at costa, narrowing to tornus ; cilia 

 blackish, pale at tips. Hind wing orauge-yellow, sometimes with 

 deeper terminal band, or with slight dark streaks on extremities 

 of veins towards apex. 



Ab. I. Fore wing fuscous brown, with traces of pale oblique 

 postmedial band. 



Hab. Delagoa Bat (Mrs. Monteiro, KenricJc), 2 cJ , 3 5 . E.vj), 

 44 millim. 



2098. Secusio strigata. 



Secusio strigata, Wlk. ii. 559 (1854) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 50 ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 419. 

 Nyctemera hymencea, Gerst. Arch. f. Nat. xxxvii. p. 360 (1871); Van der 



Decken, Reisen, iii. (2) p. 377, pi 16. f. 1 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 419. 

 Secusio parvipuncta, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. Tiii. p. 46, pi. 139. f. 6 



(1891) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 419. 



Head orange, the palpi except at base, antennse, and spots on 

 frons and vertex black ; tegulae orange with black spots ; patagia 

 and thorax black-brown with pale streaks ; metathorax with orauge 



patch ; pectus orange with black 

 spots ; legs brown with pale 

 streaks ; abdomen orange, with 

 lateral and sublateral series of 

 black points, the ventral sur- 

 face paler. Fore wing grey- 

 brown ; the veins of basal half 

 ¥{g2\^.— Secusio strigata,^. \, ^jth pale streaks; an oblique 



(l<rom Moths Ind. vol. 11.) ^ 4-^ j- i • x! c 



^ ' postmedial series of four 



whitish spots, sometimes entirely absent, extending from costa to 

 vein 1, varying much in size and often with an additional spot 

 beyond it above vein 3 ; cilia fulvous or pale at tips. Hind wing 



