﻿LEPIDOPTEEA HETEROCEEA. 1041 



1. POLYDESMA UMBKICOLA. 



JFerruginosa, nigro conspersa ; alee lineis transverds denticulatis 

 lunulisque marginalibus nigris, 



Polydesma umbricola, Boisd, Faune Ent Mad, Bourh. et Maur. 

 Lep. 108, 1, pi. 13, f. 5. Guen. NocL ii. 440, 1312. 



a. Port Natal. From M. Becker's collection. 



2. Polydesma nycterina. 



AlcB quatuor denticulatce^ fuscce^ violaceo submicantes, strigis plu- 

 rimis angulatis undulatis nigris, subtus fuscce, 



Polydesma nycterina, Boisd. Faune Ent. Mad, Bourb, eL Maur, 

 109, 2, pi. 13, f. 6. 



Madagascar. 



3. Polydesma laudula. 



Var. ? CinereO'Cervina, nigro-fusco conspersa ; alee lunulis margi- 

 nalibus nigris ; anticce apud marginem exteriorem fusces- 

 centes, maculis costalibus nigricantibus, lineis transversis 

 undulatis incompletis ; posticce lineis transversis minus vagis, 



Polydesma laudula, Guen, NocL ii. 441, 1313. 



Madagascar. 



Var, F Cinereous fawn-colour, thickly speckled with blackish 

 brown. Fore wings brownish alono: the exterior border, with 

 blackish costal spots joining the undulating transverse lines, which 

 are irregular and incomplete. Hind wings with black marginal 

 lunules like those of the fore wings, and with the transverse lines 

 more regular. Length of the body 9 — 11 lines; of the wings, 

 20-24 lines. 



a, b. Sien-a Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



c, Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



d, West Africa. 



e, Penang. Presented by Sir W. Norris. 



