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MlCRAEOA EUFESCENS, 11. Sp. 



cf . Uniform red-brown, the branches of antennas black. 

 Hob. Natal, Tugela Eiver, Bond's Drift (Eeynolds), Estcourt 

 (Hutchinson), Maritzburg (Burnup). Exp. 22 mill. Type in B.M. 



GENUS ACLONOPHLEBIA. 



Type. 



AclonophleUa, Butl. P.Z.S., 1898, p. 428 ... flavinotata. 



A. Hind wing yellow. 



. Forewing brown, with medial band formed of white patches . . mosera. 

 l>. Forewing fuscous, with white patch on medial costal area and 



yellow patches below and beyond cell lurjardi. 



B. Hindwing pale crimson rlioilcu. 



C. Hindwing white texsellftta. 



(1) ACLONOPHLEBIA MOSEBA, Druce, A.M.N.H. (7) i. p. 208 (1898). 

 Hab. Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro) ; Rhodesia, Bulawayo 



(Eyles) ; Natal, Durban (Queckett, Leigh). Exp. 32-50 mill. 

 Larva hairy, brown, strongly urticating. Pupa hair - brown 

 (Leigh). 



(2) ACLONOPHLEBIA LUGAEDI, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc., 1903, p. 493. 

 Hab. N'Gamiland (Lugard). Exp. $ 34, ? 44 mill. 



(3) ACLONOPHLEBIA EHODEA, n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax brown, area round base of antennae and 

 sides of neck, some hair behind tegulge and pectus crimson ; antennae 

 blackish ; femora crimson above ; abdomen crimson with dorsal 

 series of small black spots, the extremity blackish, the anal tuft 

 yellow. Forewing fuscous, irrorated with white, the veins speckled 

 with pinkish white ; subbasal line represented by small crimson 

 spots with black points on their inner side ; a white antemedial band 

 oblique from costa to below cell where it becomes confluent with an 

 irregular medial white patch on inner margin interrupted by dark 

 striae ; postmedial line expanding towards costa into a white patch 

 angled outwards at vein 7 where it is met by two obliquely placed 

 spots from apex, angled outwards on veins 4 and 3, then inwards 

 and ending on inner margin ; a series of small crimson spots on 

 termen and cilia. Hindwing pale crimson ; a pale fuscous terminal 

 band from apex to vein 3, then becoming narrower and subterminal 

 and ending at tornus. 



Hab. Delagoa Bay (Junod). Exp. 40 mill. Type in B.M. 



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