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double subterrninal shade ; terminal dots weaker than on forewing. 

 Both wings beneath (especially hindwing) feebly marked, forewing 

 slightly suffused in proximal half ; fringe of forewiug more noticeably 

 brown-tipped than above. 



Cape, Dunbrody, January, 1914 (Rev. A. Vogt), type ; September, 

 1913, paratype in coll. L. B. Prout. 



Will certainly belong to the sub-genus Pylanje H.-Sch. ( rf hindleg 

 with terminal spurs). Distinguished from jncta Warr. (Nov. Zool. 

 iv, 62), and its ab. fulvilinea Warr.) (Ann. S. Afr. Mus. x, 483 ) f 

 which shai'e with it the brown face, by the flexuous postmedian line. 

 A good deal larger than 9 pida. 



3. SCOPULA TENUISCRIPTA, sp. 11OV. 



S . 25 mm. Face and palpus blackish. Vertex and antennal shaft 

 white (antennae broken). Collar ochreous. Thorax and abdomen 

 whitish, slightly irrorated with light brown. Legs ochreous to whitish, 

 the forecoxa fuscous in front ; hindtibia without spurs, but not 

 dilated ; hiudtarsus very slightly longer than tibia. 



Forewing with apex pointed, termen fairly straight, oblique, very 

 slightly more so in posterior half than in anterior ; creamy white, 

 slightly more ochreous at costal edge, irroration light brown, very fine 

 and sparse ; lines brown, very fine ; antemedian oblique, almost 

 obsolete ; median beyond the cell-spot, oblique outward at first, 

 strongly bent about SC 5 - R 1 , then oblique inward, almost obsolete ; 

 postmedian from nearly four-fifths costa, excurved at first, then nearly 

 parallel with termen, slightly sinuate inward between the radials ; discal 

 dot small, black ; terminal line very fine, brown, marked except in 

 its posterior part with small black iuterneural dots ; fringe somewhat 

 irrorated and very feebly spotted. Hindwing with termeu angled at 

 R 3 ; without antemediau line ; median almost crossing cell-dot, but 

 escaping it by a slight bend inwards at this point ; postmediau faint 

 anteriorly, slightly excurved, but not angled in middle, oblique outward 

 from fold to abdominal margin ; terminal black dots less sharp than 

 in forewing. Forewing beneath, except from hindmargm to fold, more 

 ochreous, proximally with very slight smoky suffusions ; first line 

 wanting, cell-dot minute, terminal dots obsolete, the rest as above. 

 Hindwing beneath slightly more ochreous-tinged than above, without 

 median line, postmedian nearer termen, more crenulate, especially in 

 middle part. 



Transvaal, Barberton, June, 1912 (H. Edwards). 



