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hereto, forming conspicuous dark dots on a fine line which precedes 

 the white double postmediau baud ; distal area corresponding to that 

 of forewiug, but with the band proximally to the subterminal dots 

 stronger. 



Cape, Hout Bay, near Cape Town, May, 1901 (W. L. Sclater). 

 Type in coll. S. Afr. Museum, others from the same source in coll. 

 Brit. Mus. et coll. L. B. Prout. 



The mottled appearance, dotted subterminal line and well-marked 

 hindwing distinguish this species at a glance. 



7. ORTHOLITHA PUNCTISCBIPTA, sp. nov. 



cf. 30mm. Face somewhat rough-scaled, but without projecting 

 cone ; ochreous, narrowly marked with fuscous above and rather more 

 broadly below. Palpus little longer than diameter of eye, first and 

 second joints rough-scaled, third minute, concealed ; fuscous. An- 

 tenna pubescent, 1 beneath strongly lamellate, with close teeth at least 

 as long as diameter of shaft. Vertex, thorax, and abdomen concolorous 

 with wings. Foreleg darkened on upper- and iunerside (middle and 

 hindlegs lost). 



Forewing not very broad, termen smooth, slightly curved, strongly 

 oblique ; whitish grey, in places slightly shaded with ochreous, and 

 with minute and sparse (proximally, especially along the costa, rather 

 denser) fuscous irroration ; sub-basal line fuscous, bent in cell, then 

 oblique inward ; antemedian and postmedian very fine and slight, but 

 accentuated by strong dots on the veins ; antemedian from nearly one- 

 third costa to beyond one-third hiudmargiu, very slightly excurved ; 

 postmedian from about two-thirds costa, vertical at first, slightly 

 incurved between the radials, oblique inward from M 1 to M 2 , then 

 slightly sinuous to hindmargiu ; 3 or 4 still fainter wavy lines in 

 median area, strongest at costa, and some faint dark shading near 

 termen, especially in anterior half ; lines between sub-basal and ante- 

 median and between postmedian and distal dark shading represented 

 by pairs of conspicuous vein-dots ; discal dot minute ; terminal line 

 inclining to form pairs of dark dots or dashes at each vein. Hindwing 

 rather narrow, apex round-prominent, termen smooth, slightly 

 sinuous, the coiivexit}' coming about the middle ; slightly paler than 

 forewing, the markings analogous but rather weaker, the dots of the 

 postmediau line and of the first of the pair beyond it the most con- 

 spicuous, leaving rather noticeable the narrow pale intervening band. 

 Underside similarly but more weakly and confusedly marked. 

 Type, without locality label, in coll. S. Afr. Mus. 



