﻿1048 CATALOGUE OF 



4. Alamis deducta. 



Mas. Cinereo-fusea ^ nigricante conspersa; palporum articulus 

 3w5 2i triente longior ; thorax vix fasciatus ; alee anticce lineis 

 duabus duplicatis unaque simplici exterior e undulatis nigri- 

 cantibus, fascia undulata fusca extus pallido marginata^ 

 lunulis marginalihus nigris ; posticce hasi pallidce liiuris 

 obsoletis. 



Male, Cinereous-brown, with blackish speckles. Third joint 

 of the palpi more than one-third of the length of the second. Tho- 

 rax hardly banded. Fore wings with two double undulating 

 blackish lines, and with a single exterior blackish undulating line, 

 which is obsolete hindward ; beyond the latter there is an undu- 

 lating brown band which hasj a pale exterior border; marginal 

 lunules black. Hind wings towards the base pale and with the 

 markings obsolete. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 18 

 lines. 



Port Natal. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



5. Alamis semifimbeia. 



Fcem. Ferrugineo-fusca; caput et thorax albo sub conspersa ; 

 abdomen cinereum ; alee anticce e punctis guttis maculisque 

 albis subfasciatce, macula orbiculari e gutta nigra albido mar^ 

 ginata, guttis marginalibus albis ; posticce fuscce^ basi cinerea^ 

 e guttis albis subfasciatce, guttis marginalibus albis. 



Female. Ferruginous-brown, paler beneath. Head and tho- 

 rax slightly sprinkled with white. Joints of the palpi with pale 

 tips. Abdomen cinereous. Fore wings with somewhat pearly- 

 white flecks and dots and spots which form four or five irregular 

 diffuse and incomplete bands, the fourth broader and more distinct 

 than the others ; orbicular spot represented by a black whitish-bor- 

 dered dot ; a row of white marginal dots. Hind wings brown, cine- 

 reous towards the base, with some white dots, which form an 

 incomplete band, and with white marginal dots which are smaller 

 than those of the fore wings. Length of the body 8i lines ; of the 

 wings 20 lines. 



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



