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the beginning of another line proximally hereto. Forewing beneath 

 with costal margin rather more strongly spotted. 



Cape, Fraserburg, April, 1885 (E. G. Alston), type in coll. S. Afr. 

 Mus ; Bus-hmanlaud, 1897 (Schlechter), paratype (rather pale and 

 more yellowish-brown, crippled in one hindwing) in coll. L. B. Prout. 



GEN. DREPANOGYNIS Gueu. 



21. DREPANOGYNIS PERO, sp. nov. 



$. 33 mm. Head and palpus red-brown, mixed with black; 3rd 

 joint of palpus distinct. Antennae lost, the few joints which remain 

 not pectinated. Thorax pale fleshy ochreous, above strongly mixed 

 with red-brown ; abdomen pale, strongly dotted with black. 



Forewing not very broad, termen rather irregularly and weakly sub- 

 crenulate, very slightly excised between apex and E 1 ; SC 3 anastomosing 

 at a point with SC 3 ' 4 ; very pale fleshy ochreous (whitest in cell and 

 just beyond postmedian line), irrorated with red-brown and sparsely 

 with black ; veins more ochreous ; lines black, throwing out short vein- 

 dashes into the median area ; first from two-sevenths costa to little 

 beyond one-fourth hiudmargiu, very deeply excurved ; postmedian 

 parallel with termen, at 3'5 mm. distance, minutely lunulate-dentate ; 

 median area for the most part more shaded with red-brown, leaving a 

 conspicuous pale patch bounded anteriorly by M-R 3 , posteriorly by 

 M 2 and distally by the postmediau line ; subterminal line fine, some- 

 what interrupted, whitish, deeply lunulate-dentate, accompanied proxi- 

 mally by dark spots or wedges between the veins ; termen. with black 

 vein-dots ; fringe with dark intersecting line (damaged). Hindiving 

 rather paler ; a dark postmedian line present, strongest at abdominal 

 margin, bent at R 1 but fading out anteriorly ; weak dark subterminal 

 shading. Both wings beneath pale fleshy-ochreous, with scattered 

 dark irroration, minute discal dot and fine postmedian line, that of the 

 hindwiug reaching costa ; forewing in addition with very slight suffu- 

 sions in median area. 



Cape, Clanwilliani, November, 1899 (Lightfoot). 



The absence of the <$ leaves the affinities somewhat doubtful. The 

 coloration recalls the South American genus Pero notably variaria 

 Walk. 



22. DREPANOGYNIS LEPTODOMA, sp. nov. 



c?. 32 mm. Head, palpus, breast and upperside of foreleg reddish. 

 Collar brown. Thorax above pale grey, strongly irrorated with red- 

 brown ; abdomen pale. 



