74 Annals of the South African Museum. 



elongate wings, long cells and presence of SC 1 of forewing, widely free. 

 Head and body concolorous with wings. Antennal pectinations 

 very much shorter than in ferrorubrata, only 2-3 times as long as 

 diameter of shaft ; rather slender, well separated. 



Forewing not quite so narrow as in ferrorubrata, termen towards 

 apex not quite so oblique ; light brown, with some slightly rufescent 

 shadings and with scattered dark irroration ; costal edge dark-dotted ; 

 lines exceedingly faint, placed as in ferrorubrata, the median quite 

 fine, the postmedian dots minute ; a small black cell-dot ; termen 

 with small, weak, dark dots. Hindwing almost uniform grey, with a 

 slight purplish tinge ; cell-mark very faintly indicated in rather 

 darker grey. Underside as in pale examples of ferrorubrata, the 

 forewing, except at costal margin, being glossy and feebly marked, 

 the costal margin and the entire hindwing more mixed with ochreous, 

 strongly irrorated ; cell-marks present but not strong. 



Cape, Wynberg, October, 1862. 



Except for size and structure, might have been taken for a striking 

 ab. of ferrorubrata of the least rufous form and with the characteristic 

 broad median shade almost obsolete. 



GEN. PETELIA H.-Sch. 



37. PETELIA PSEUDOGNOPHOS, sp. nov. 



<$ 9 . 33 mm. Structure of strigata Warr. (Nov. Zool. iv, 103 == 

 crassata Warr., op. cit. xi, 477), the face being without projecting tuft 

 and the palpus short for the genus ; C of hindwing rather farther from 

 SC, connected by a slight bar near base. Head and body coloured 

 nearly as wings, the face, palpus and fore- and middle-legs slightly 

 darkened, the vertex slightly pale. 



Forewing not quite so broad as in strigata, termen more oblique ; 

 rather glossy grey, somewhat mixed or clouded with light brown and 

 with moderately strong, scattered blackish irroration ; lines rather 

 vague, formed of massed brown irroratiou, from costa at about one- 

 fifth, two-fifths and two-thirds, nearly parallel, all bent strongly out- 

 ward before middle, inward about middle, outward behind and more or 

 less indented on SM e ; cell-dot small, black ; subterminal line indicated 

 by a series of fairly large but not very sharply defined whitish vein- 

 spots, proximally edged by some blackish irroration ; the spots at R 3 

 and R :i weaker, more proximally placed : termeu with rather large 

 black interneural dots, slightly extending into grey dashes ; fringe 

 almost unicolorous. Hindwing similar, with two instead of three 



