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NOCTUIDJ3. 
bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed with scales and hair and 
without crests ; tibke nearly smoothly scaled ; abdomen with 
dorsal crests at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 
the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 
from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 
anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 
wing with the cell half the length of wing ; vein 5 from near 
angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 
shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus ACOLASIS- 
Type. 
Acolasis, Hiibn. Yerz. p. 256 (1827) tanais, Cram. 
Anthocitta, Hiibn. Yerz. p. 259 (1827) capensis, Cram. 
Ccenipeta, Hiibn. Verz. p. 260 (1827) colliquens, Hiibn. 
Hypogra mma , Guen. Noct. iii. p. 34 (1S52) capensis , Cram. 
Eudipna, Walk. ix. 149 (1856) phasis, Cram. 
Acolasis anepsia, n. sp. 
Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; palpi 
fuscous brown, whitish at base and at base and extremity of 
3rd joint; tegulae with dark band near tips ; pectus white; legs 
brown, white towards base ; abdomen pale reddish brown with 
white segmental lines, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 
whitish suffused with pale red-brown ; subbasal line double, 
blackish, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 
line double, blackish, waved, the inner line rather diffused; a 
blackish discoidal lunule with slight pale centre ; medial line 
blackish, oblique to the discoidal lunule, then slight and waved, 
bent outwards beyond the cell and oblique below it ; post- 
medial line blackish, defined on outer side by whitish towards 
costa, waved, oblique to below vein 7, incurved below vein 4 
and angled inwards at vein 3 to below end of cell, a diffused 
waved reddish brown line beyond it and some white points 
on costa with black-brown between them ; subterminal line 
whitish defined on inner side by black-brown spots, angled 
inwards below costa, excurved below vein 7, then waved ; 
a small blackish spot below apex and waved line just below 
termen. Hind wing red-brown, the terminal area blackish 
brown ; a sinuous black-brown postmedial line defined on 
outer side by a yellow band from vein 6 to inner margin ; 
a black terminal line with some yellow before it except towards 
apex, traversed by the slight subterminal line ; cilia yellow 
slightly chequered with red-brown. Underside pale red- 
brown ; fore wing with some whitish at middle of costa with 
a blackish mark on it, the postmedial line defined on outer 
side by whitish towards costa, excurved to vein 4, then in- 
curved, a whitish subterminal line on costal area ; hind wing 
