LEPID0FXE11A HETEROCERA. 591 



Group 2. 

 Like the fifth European group. 



76. HADENA CONSUMMATA. 



Mas. Nigro-fusca ; caput ferrugineum ; thorax margine antico 

 vittaque ferrugineis ; abdomen pallidum, apice fulvum ; alee 

 anticce guttis costalibus et marginalibus albidis, lineis nigris 

 undulatis, maculis nigro marginatis, orbiculari subobliqua, 

 reniformi cervino maculata, strigis exterioribus nigris testaceo 

 notatis ; posticce fuscescente-cinerea. 



Male, Blackish brown. Head ferruginous. Third joint of 

 the palpi cylindrical, about one-third of the length of the second. 

 Antennae very minutely ciliated. Thorax ferruginous in front, and 

 with a ferruginous stripe. Abdomen a little paler than the thorax, 

 tawny at the tip. Fore wings with minute whitish costal and mar- 

 ginal dots ; transverse lines undulating, black, the two exterior 

 almost obsolete ; discal spots with black borders ; claviform with 

 a black disk ; orbicular slightly oblique, hardly half the size of the 

 reniform, which contains a fawn-coloured spot; an exterior row of 

 cuneiform black streaks, which contain testaceous marks. Hind 

 wings brownish cinereous. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the 

 wings 20 lines. 



Port Natal. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Group 3. 



.77. Hadena? cinctithorax. 



Mas. Pallide cervina ; thorax nigro fasciatus ; abdomen albido- 

 testaceum ; alee anticce lituris costalibus guttisque marginali- 

 bus nigris, maculis duabus subapicalibus nigricantibus, linea 

 submarginali e guttis nigris, maculis discalibus nigris cinereo 

 notatis, orbiculari parva; posticce albce. 



Male. Pale fawn-colour. Palpi ascending ; third joint not 

 more than one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae 

 slightly ciliated. Thorax with a black band. Abdomen whiiish 

 testaceous. Fore wings with some black marks along the costa, 

 and with black marginal dots ; two blackish spots on the fore part 

 between the border and the submarginal line, which is composed of 

 black dots, and is rather remote from the border; the other lines in- 

 dicated by a few black dots; discal spots black, with cinereous 



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