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brown. Forewing irrorated with a few rufous scales ; subbasal line 

 indistinct, curved from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line 

 rather indistinct, angled outwards in interspaces ; the cell and area 

 beyond and just below it suffused with dark reddish-brown t on medial 

 area, a patch also on vein 1, the orbicular and reniform remaining 

 yellow, the former round ; postmedial line dentate, strongly bent out- 

 wards below costa and very strongly incurved below vein 4 ; some 

 yellow points on costa beyond it ; subterminal line only defined by a 

 somewhat dentate rufous line on its inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 3, 4 ; a terminal series of dark 

 striae ; cilia chequered yellow and brown. Hindwing rather paler 

 yellow slightly irrorated with brown ; a fine brown terminal line ; 

 the under side with dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Dobbie) ; Natal, Deloni (Stanger), 

 Bushman's Eiver (Hutchinson). Exp. $ 32, $ 36 mill. Type in 

 B.M. 



(2fi) TABACHE MIONIDES, n. sp. 



$ . Frontal prominence with central process, corneous wall and 

 plate below it. 



Head and thorax white; palpi at tips, sides of frons and bands on 

 tibiae and tarsi fuscous, abdomen white tinged with ochreous. Fore- 

 wing with the basal area white, the costal and inner areas grey with 

 white striae representing the subbasal and antemedial lines ; the rest 

 of the wing grey suffused with olive-green, especially on disk ; a 

 small white lunule at upper angle of cell ; a white patch on costa 

 from before middle to near apex constricted at vein 7 and ending 

 truncately on vein 5 ; postmedial line white from vein 2 to inner 

 margin, incurved to vein 1, then angled outwards ; three waved 

 whitish lines on disk before the subterminal series of white spot 

 with black points on them developed into two black spots below apex 

 and one above tornus ; cilia brownish. Hindwing white with some 

 brown on termen from apex to vein 2 ; the under side with small 

 discoidal black spot. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Deelfontein (Colonel Sloggett). 1 3 type. 

 Exp. 28 mill. 



(2&) TABACHE DIOPIS, n. sp. 



$ . Antennas ciliated ; frons with long truncate conical promi- 

 nence with raised rim at extremity ; forewing with the costa concave 

 beyond middle. 



Head and thorax black-brown ; abdomen dark-brown. Forewing 

 red-brown ; orbicular a small round white spot with some brown 



