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terminal ai'ea suffused with brown, a few large black scales 

 scattered over the wing ; the veins streaked with white ; the costal 

 edge pale rufous ; a rather indistinct sinuous antemedial brown line 

 incurved in cell ; orbicular and reniform small, deep black with 

 whitish annuli, the former round, the latter elliptical ; medial line 

 brown, obliquely excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique and 

 sinuous ; postmedial line formed of black striae defined by white on 

 outer side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then rather oblique and 

 sinuous ; an indistinct minutely dentate whitish subterminal line ; a 

 rufous terminal line. Hindwing yellowish white clouded with brown 

 from near base to termen ; an indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hab. Zululand, Lower Tugela (Eeynolds). 1 $ type. Exp. 

 34 mill. 



CATOCALIN^. 



(1) HOMOPTERA VARIEGATA, n. Sp. 



$ . Head and thorax black-brown, slightly irrorated with grey 

 and ochreous, some ochreous on frons, behind the tegulse, and on 

 metathorax ; abdomen fuscous. Forewing rufous suffused and irro- 

 rated with black ; a fine white streak on median nervure ; a white 

 point at base below cell ; subbasal line black defined by white on 

 outer side, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, 

 slightly defined on each side by whitish, angled outwards below 

 costa and inwards on median nervure and vein 1 ; reniform rather 

 small, black, embraced by a hoop-shaped mark from costa to below 

 cell defined by a sinuous black line on a whitish line ; postmedial 

 line black slightly defined by white on outer side, angled slightly 

 inwards below costa, outwards at discal fold, then oblique and 

 crenulate and with a diffused black shade before it, a slight ochreous 

 streak before it below discal fold and a prominent one beyond it 

 above the fold ; subterminal line interrupted, whitish, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and inwards at discal and submedian folds, with some black 

 streaks before it at middle and a whitish patch above vein 1 ; a 

 terminal series of black and white points ; cilia black with white 

 patch below apex. Hindwing fuscous black ; cilia with fine pale 

 line at base and white tips ; the under side with the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with grey, a small discoidal spot, curved 

 medial and postmedial dark lines and sinuous whitish subterminal 

 line. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 64 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



