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before apex with one or two points below it. Hindwing white, the 

 costal area and terminal half blackish ; the under side with the costal 

 area irrorated with grey, a blackish discoidal spot. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Exp. 38 mill. 

 Type in B.M. 



GENUS COPIFKONTIA, nov. 



Type C. xantherythra. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the second 

 joint slender and smoothly sealed, the third moderate ; frons with 

 vertical ridge-shaped process ; eyes smooth, not ciliated ; antennae 

 of male serrate and ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and 

 scales mixed, the latter with rather ridge-shaped dorsal crest ; hind 

 tibiae fringed with hair on both sides, the inner spurs very long ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Forewing with the termen 

 obliquely curved and the inner margin rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



COPIFRONTIA XANTHERYTHRA, n. Sp. 



$ . Head and thorax bright yellow, palpi above, frons and patches 

 on tegulaa, patagia and dorsum of thorax purplish red ; antennae 

 fulvous ; abdomen ochreous yellow. Forewing bright yellow ; a 

 subbasal purple-red band with the scales pale-tipped, broad and 

 oblique from costa to below cell, then narrowing, with waved edges 

 and not quite reaching inner margin ; an antemedial series of small 

 spots, oblique from costa to vein 1, where it is angled and has a 

 small spot before it ; orbicular a purplish red annulus connected with 

 a large patch from just below costa expanding in, beyond, and below 

 end of cell, leaving a yellow line on discocellulars and connected 

 with inner margin by some small spots ; two postmedial series of 

 small spots from costa to vein 6, the postmedial line only traceable 

 on the purple-red area where it is fine, yellow, and obliquely in- 

 curved; the terminal area purple-red except at apex, conjoined 

 between veins 5 and 2 with the medial patch ; the subterminal line 

 fine, yellow, waved, dentate inwards on the veins and connected 

 with termen by slight streaks above and below vein 6 and in sub- 

 median fold. Hindwing yellowish white. 



Hab. Mashonaland (Bobbie). Exp. 46 mill. Type in B.M. 



