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noctuid^e. 
middle with some brown irroration between them ; cilia 
dark brown with ochreous line at base and ochreous patches 
at apex and vein 4. Hind wing reddish brown ; subterminal 
black and pale bars on veins 2 and 1 with some white beyond 
them ; cilia with two white spots towards apex, then with 
white line at base and in submedian interspace wholly white. 
Underside grey-brown with a reddish tinge ; fore wing with 
some white at the glandular swelling and oblique white striae 
beyond it ; hind wing irrorated with whitish, a white discoidal 
spot and slight postmedial line with small black spots on it. 
Hab. Singapore {Ridley), 4 $ type. Exp. 40 millim. 
Athyrma discimacula, n. sp. 
$. Head and thorax reddish brown tinged with grey ; 
antennae dark brown ; palpi Avhite at extreme tips ; pectus 
with some whitish ; spurs and tarsi black-brown ringed with 
white ; abdomen dark brown tinged with grey and with 
slight whitish segmental lines, the crests at base reddish brown. 
Fore wing with the basal area dark chocolate-brown ; an 
obliquely curved white subbasal line from costa to submedian 
fold ; antemedial line violaceous white, oblique from cell 
to inner margin ; the rest of wing dark red-brown mixed with 
some ochreous on postmedial and apical areas ; a white 
discoidal spot defined by black-brown ; postmedial line 
violaceous white slightly defined on inner side by black-brown, 
oblique and slightty sinuous to vein 6, then inwardly oblique 
and slightly sinuous to lower angle of cell, then bent inwards 
on median nervure to the antemedial line and excurved to 
inner margin, the chocolate-brown of the basal area extending 
to it below the cell, a triangular chocolate-brown patch 
beyond it on costa, defined by the whitish subterminal line, 
which is incurved below costa, slightly excurved at vein 7, 
then oblique, waved, and slightly defined on outer side by 
dark brown to inner margin ; a series of dark brown points 
followed by white points before termen. Hind wing dark 
reddish brown, greyish towards base ; cilia Avhite at discal 
fold, then fuscous Avith a fine Avhite line at base. Underside 
ochreous whitish variegated Avith red-broAvn ; fore wing 
Avith Avhite discoidal spot Avith some Avhite suffusion beloAV it, 
the inner area grey-broAvn, postmedial and subterminal series 
of dark points toAvards costa and a postmedial patch of black- 
broAvn suffusion from vein 6 to submedian fold ; hind Aving 
Avith black-broA\ r n discoidal spot, waved postmedial line from 
costa to submedian fold, subterminal shade from vein 0 to 
tornus, and series of points before termen. 
Hab. Sierra Leone {Austen), 1 $ ; Gold Coast, Kumasi 
{Sanders), 1 $ type. Exp. 36 millim. 
