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postmedial line irregularly dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 angled inwards in discal fold, strongly incurved below the cell, then 

 bent outwards again ; a wedge-shaped black mark from costa before 

 apex with a white point on it ; some irregular subterminal marks ; a 

 terminal series of black spots becoming larger and triangular towards 

 tornus, emitting streaks on the cilia except towards tornus. Hind- 

 wing white, some fuscous marks at and below apex and a line 

 towards tornus forming part of a subterminal band ; a terminal 

 series of black striae ; the under side with fuscous bars from costa 

 before, at, beyond middle and at apex, a black discoidal lunule. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Millar) ; Cape Colony, Howie (Dr. Barker), 

 Heald Town (Miss F. Barrett), Grahamstown. Exp. 38 mill. Type 

 in B.M. 



(21)*DASYCHiRA CONFINIS, Dist. A.M.N.H. (7) iv. p. 360 (1899). 

 Hab. Transvaal, Natal Frontier. Exp. 52 mill. 



GENUS LACIPA. 



Type. 



Lacipa, Wlk. iv. 790 (1855) picta. 



Micn:></i/))ina, Wllgrn. K. Vet. Akad. Handl. (2) v. 



p. 38(1865) picta. 



A. Forewing with the ground colour yellowish sarcistis. 



B. Forewing with the ground colour white tinged with fuscous. . intlcereu. 



C. Forewing with the ground colour pure white. 



(i. Forewing with the bands denned by black, an irregular 



medial series of black spots; plct<i. 



1). Forewing with the bands not defined by black ; no medial series of black 

 spots. 



'. Forewing with terminal series of black points . . . . quadripunctata. 

 1>\ Forewing with terminal series of yellow spots. 



a". Forewing with two or three black points on medial 



part of postmedial line 



It-. Forewing with complete series of black spots on 

 inner side of postmedial line 



(1) LACIPA SARCISTIS, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow ; fore coxas tinged with 

 fuscous ; anal tuft of female fuscous. Forewing flesh yellow irro- 

 rated with rough white scales ; the costa more orange ; traces of a 

 curved orange subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line orange, acutely angled on median nervure and oblique 

 towards costa and inner margin ; an orange postmedial line arising 

 near apex, very oblique below vein 7. Hindwing orange-yellow. 



