522 
noctuid.i-:. 
suffused with red-brown and silvery grey to end of cell, the 
terminal area pale red-brown ; a slight dark subbasal striga 
below the cell ; antemedial line dark brown, angled outwards 
below costa, then oblique ; a black point in middle of cell 
and curved discoidal striga ; medial line dark brown, oblique 
towards costa, then incurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved 
to lower angle of cell and almost erect to inner margin ; post- 
medial line dark brown, excurved below costa, then incurved 
to below vein o, then slightly waved, incurved to vein 2 and 
rather oblique to inner margin, a whitish streak beyond it on 
costa ; an oblique ochreous white shade from apex with 
some blackish above it on costa and a blackish point on it 
below vein 8, an elliptical whitish subterminal spot below 
vein 7, a large patch between veins 6 and 2, traversed by a 
dentate red-brown subterminal line, extending to termen, its 
inner edge curved, its upper edge irregular, and a minute 
round subterminal spot below vein 2 ; cilia whitish with black 
tips between veins 4 and 1 . Hind wing fiery red to middle 
of costa and tornus, the rest of wing red-brown ; a yellow 
spot just beyond lower angle of cell above vein 4 with semi- 
hyaline white spots above and beyond it, between veins 6 and 
3, then a larger spot below vein 3 and an oblique yellowish 
bar above tornus ; cilia dark red-brown with some white at 
base in submedian interspace, the hair on inner margin white. 
Underside of fore wing white tinged with ochreous, the costa 
red-brown, a black discoidal point, medial line pale red- 
brown ending at submedian fold, the postmedial line as 
above but more waved, the subterminal patches diffused 
and ill-defined with curved dark striae below veins 8 and 7 
and between veins 4 and 2 ; hind wing white, the costal 
and inner areas tinged with ochreous, the terminal area with 
large reddish brown patch from apex to vein 1, its inner edge 
curved, a minute black discoidal point, maculate and semi- 
hyaline white patch between vein 6 and submedian fold, and 
indistinct waved dark subterminal line excurved at middle and 
bent outwards to tornus. 
Wings with the fiery red areas more or less suffused or 
irro rated with brown. 
Hab. Sierra Leone, Free Town ( F . C. Smith), 1 $ ; 
S. Nigeria, Sapele (Sampson) , 1 <$, 1 9> Benue (F. G. Brown), 
1 type. Exp. £ 46, 9 50 millim. 
Genus HOLOXANTHINA, nov. 
Type, II . lutosa, Karsch ( Entomogramma ), Ent. Nachr. xxi. 
p. 376, pi. iv. f. 13 (1895). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to about middle of frons, moderately fringed with 
