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irroration ; cell-dot large, black, long-oval ; lines scarcely indicated 

 except by blackish dots on the veins ; ante median from one-fourth 

 costa to beyond one-fourth hindmargin, somewhat excurved anteriorly 5 

 postmedian from before three-fourths costa, curving inward so as 

 nearly to touch the cell-mark on R :? , then nearly vertical to hindmargin. 

 -Hindiviny similar, sometimes slightly paler ; first line wanting ; post- 

 median slightly curved, but generally placed near the cell-mark. 

 Underside paler, with very feeble dark irroration ; cell-dots present ; 

 postmedian dots present, but generally indistinct. 



Salisbury, 1915 (Dr. M. Melle), type in coll. S. Afr. Mus. ; also 

 in coll. Brit. Mus. from the same district. 



GEN. HEMEROPHILA Steph. 



28. HEMEROPHILA ABSURDA, sp. iiov. 



. 32-35 mm. Face with appressed scales; fuscous. Palpus 

 short ; fuscous. Tongue slight. Antenna bipectiuate apparently to 

 apex (extreme tip lost), with long, rather slender branches. Vertex, 

 thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings. Hind tibia not dilated. 

 Forewiny with apex rather sharp, termen not crenulate ; SO 1 

 anastomosing at a point with C, SC 2 from cell, fi'ee; light brown, 

 slightly ochreous, irrorated and strigulated with fuscous, parts of the 

 median and distal areas remaining slightly clearer ; lines blackish ; 

 antemedian slightly thickened, especially behind M and near hind- 

 margin, arising on costa before one-third, curved outward at first, 

 indented between R 3 and M 1 , strongly oblique inward and slightly 

 sinuous to before one-fourth hindmargin ; postmedian mostly rather 

 slender, but thickened about R 3 -M J , arising on costa at five-sevenths, 

 acutely angled outward about R 1 , then oblique and slightly curved 

 inward, reaching hindmargin about tln-ee-fifths ; a blackish cell-dot ; 

 an extremely vague band of dark shading distally to the postmedian, 

 slightly strengthened between the radials and near hiudmargin ; 

 termen with slightly elongate blackish dots (or short dashes) between 

 the veins. Hindiviny with termen not crenulate, but in anterior half 

 appreciably undulate ; first line wanting ; postmedian not very sharply 

 expressed, placed little beyond the cell-dot, somewhat crenulate, fairly 

 direct or very slightly sinuous, posteriorly slightly oblique outward ; 

 some very slight shadiugs indicating the position of the subterminal 

 line; terminal marks weak. Underside with the cell-dots strong, 

 somewhat enlarged, especially that of the hindwing, otherwise more 

 weakly marked, the antemedian line of forewiug suggested by a darkish 



