112 CATALOGUE OF 



Africa. 



Group 1. 



Alae vitta cominuni recta obliqua. 



Wings with a straight oblique stripe extending from the tips 

 of the fore wings to the interior border of the hind wings. 



29. ETerminia Mascusalis. 



Fcem. Cinerea; palpi longi, graciles, ascendentes, subfimbriati ; 

 alee fusco conspersce, subtus fusco conspersce; vitta recta 

 obliqua fusca, spatio exteriore obscuriore ; anticce reniformi 

 fusca testaceo punctata. 



Female. Cinereous. Palpi long, slender, ascending, slightly 

 fringed ; second joint slightly curved ; third hardly curved, more 

 slender and a little shorter than the second. Wings speckled with 

 brown, with a brown straight oblique stripe, which extends from the 

 tips of the fore wings to the middle of the exterior border of the 

 hind wings, accompanied by an interior approximate parallel brown 

 line ; exterior space darker cinereous and more closely speckled 

 with brown ; marginal points black. Fore wings with the reniform 

 mark brown, and containing a testaceous point; under side thickly 

 speckled with brown ; lines obsolete. Length of the body 4 J lines ; 

 of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



Group ? 



30. Herminia? Heliriusalis. 



Foem. Luteo-testacea ; palpi oblique ascendentes, ariiculo 2o sub- 

 Jimbriato ; alee nigro aut fusco conspersce, linea exteriore 

 fusca obliqua vix undulata^ punctis marginalibus nigricanti- 

 bus ; anticce orbiculari e gutta fusca. 



Female. Luteous-testaceous. Palpi obliquely ascending ; second 

 joint slightly fringed ; third almost bare, rather shorter than 

 the second. Wings minutely speckled with blaok or brown ; exte- 

 rior line brown, oblique, hardly undulating; some traces of the 

 other lines ; marginal points blackish. Fore wings with the orbicu- 



