734 CATALOGUE OF 



speckled, deeper red about the orbicular and reniform marks and 

 along the exterior border ; a short deep black undulating mark at 

 the base; two interrupted black lines ; first line slightly dentate, on 

 the inner side of the orbicular mark ; second bent outward, beyond 

 the reniform mark ; three intermediate black lines, which do not 

 extend far from the costa ; orbicular and reniform marks black- 

 bordered ; the former oblique, elliptical ; the latter narrow, excavated 

 on the outer side; submarginal line cinereous, denticulated; mar- 

 ginal lunules black. Hind wings cinereous, brown towards the 

 exterior border ; veins brown ; fringe interlined with brown. Length 

 of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Cape. From Mr. Triraen's collection. 



Hadena ficita. 



Fcem. Nigricante-cinerea ; palpi oblique ascendentes, arliculo 3c 

 conico minimo ; thorax nigro fasciatus ; abdomen cinereum, 

 cristis quatuor nigricantibus ; alee antica lineola basali nigra 

 albido marginata, lineis duabus nigris, la e lunulis cinereo 

 marginatis, 2a dentata y lituraposticafusiformi nigro marginata 

 strigaque lata discali cupreo-fuscis, orbiculari et reniformi 

 albido nigroque marginatis, la elliptiea, 2a angusta, linea sub- 

 marginali e lituris albidis nigro marginatis ; posticce fusca, 

 basi cinerece. 



Female. Blackish cinereous, dark cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 obliquely ascending, not rising higher than the vertex ; second 

 joint stout, pilose; third conical, about one-eighth of the length of 

 the second. Fore tegula? of the thorax with a narrow black band. 

 Abdomen cinereous, extending rather beyond the hind wings ; seg- 

 ments from the first to the fourth with small blackish crests. Legs 

 blackish above ; tibiae and tarsi with cinereous bands. Fore wings 

 with an incomplete black whitish-bordered line near the base ; two 

 other black lines ; first bordered with cinereous on the inner side, 

 composed of four lunules, of which the third has a cupreous-brown 

 fusiform black-bordered mark on its outer side ; second acutely den- 

 tate, beyond the reniform mark ; orbicular and reniform whitish, with 

 blackish cinereous disks and with black borders, converging hind- 

 ward, interrupting a broad cupreous-brown streak ; orbicular ellip- 

 tical ; reniform narrow ; submarginal line composed of small whitish 

 irregularly black-bordered marks ; marginal lunules black ; costa 

 with whitish points. Hind wings brown, cinereous towards the 



