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specimens the submarginal band more, complete) ; terminal line 

 interrupted, not very sharp. Both wings beneath with similar but 

 weaker markings. 



Cape, Namaqualand (Worden), O'okiep, September 22nd, 1886, 

 type; in coll. S. Afr. Mus. ; Orange Free State, Bloemfontein (H. F. 

 Wilson), 3 in coll. Brit. Mus. 



Near butaria Swinh. (TV. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1904, p. 510), but 

 distinct in the shape of the median line and especially very different 

 in the markings of the distal area. 



GEN. TEPHRINA Guen. 



32. TEPHRINA ABNORMATA, sp. nov. 



c?. 29 mm. Face brown. Palpus whitish-brown, 2nd and 3rd 

 joints with darker admixture. Vertex light brown ; occiput fawn- 

 colour. Antenna brown ; the pectinations rather short (scarcely over 

 twice diameter of shaft) and stout, well ciliated at the tips. Collar 

 somewhat ochreous. Thorax above mostly fawn-colour, beneath light 

 brown. Hindtibia not dilated. Abdomen light brown. 



Forewing with fovea ; SC 1 arising from C, free ; whitish brown, in 

 places (most decidedly in entire distal area) shaded with fawn-colour; 

 irroration wood-brown ; costal margin, especially in median area, 

 rather more ochreous brown, with fuscous dots or minute strigulae ; 

 lines brown ; antemedian rather thick, oblique outward from before 

 one-fourth costa, roundly bent in cell, minutely indented behind M, 

 vertical to about one-third hindmargin ; discal dot rather large, black ; 

 median line rather thick, not very sharp, bent outward distally to the 

 cell-spot, then almost straight to just beyond middle of hindmargin ; 

 postmediau line 3 or 4 mm. from termen, nearly parallel therewith 

 (almost inappreciably incurved about the fold) from hindmargin to 

 R 1 , anteriorly somewhat curving proximal ; terinen with small black 

 dots between the veins. Hindwing with termen a little subcrenulate 

 from SC 2 to R 3 , smooth posteriorly ; first line wanting ; cell-dot smaller, 

 postmedian line less convex than termen, towards abdominal margin 

 slightly curving distad. Underside much warmer in coloration, the 

 ground-colour being more ochreous, irro rated and shaded (especially 

 on the distal area of hindwing) with a mere ferruginous shade ; first 

 line wanting, the others weaker than above, the median, especially on 

 hindwing, ferruginous-ochreous ; cell-dots present ; terminal dots 

 obsolescent. 



Natal, Durban, February, 1914 (W. Haygarth). 



