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Head and thorax concolorous with forewing, slightly more mixed with 

 ochreous on collar and front of thorax ; abdomen moi'e strongly mixed 

 with ochreous. 



Forewing fawn colour, with vague olive-grey irroration ; lines very 

 indistinct, merely suggested by confluence of the irroration ; ante- 

 median at one-third, slightly angled outward on M (at origin of M 2 ), 

 accompanied proximally at SC and M by very inconspicuous pale 

 spots ; a median shade discernible on middle of hindmargin ; cell-mark 

 darker, extending the full length of DC 2 3 and about half as broad as 

 long ; postinedian line slightly nearer to termen than to cell-spot, 

 rather more excurved in middle than termen, accompanied distally by 

 slight indications of a row of pale spots, the most conspicuous at 

 costa. Hindwing much more ochreous, with the beginning of a rather 

 thick darker line at abdominal margin 2 mm. from tornus. Both 

 wings beneath glossy ochreous, the hindwing unmarked, the forewing 

 more tinged with flesh-colour and with the costal edge minutely dark- 

 strigulated and the cell -mark of upper side feebly reproduced. 



Orange Free State, Smithfield (Kanuemeyer). 



A damaged $ (palpi broken, antennae lost, one forewing much 

 torn) from Aunshaw (Miss F. Barrett), in coll. Brit. Mus., 

 apparently belongs to the same species, and shows that it is somewhat 

 variable, not always so markiugless. In this the forewing is more 

 irrorated with light brown, especially from the middle to the post- 

 median line, forming here a kind of vague band ; the costal margin 

 shows dark dots indicating the position of the lines ; the postmediau 

 line is rather better expressed, somewhat angled inward close to costa 

 and oxitward about R 1 , and is followed distally by some ill-defined 

 spots between R* and M 2 , which also show on underside ; the hindwing 

 shows traces, from abdominal margin to R 1 , of curved postniedian line 

 or shade. 



GEN. AXIODES Warr. 



26. AXIODES DOCHMOLETTCA, sp. nov. 



<$ $. 25-30 mm. Head and body concolorous with wings. Autenual 

 pectinations in moderate, just over 3 times the diameter of the 

 stout shaft ; in $ scarcely (the inner series not) longer than diameter 

 of shaft. 



Forewing with costal concavity well marked, apex not extremely 

 sharp, termen only quite moderately crenulate ; SO 3 in 9 present, 

 though sometimes only separating from SC 4 quite close to apex ; very 

 light violet-grey, slightly suffused with light brown and with a few 



