24 Annals of the South African Museum. 



SUB-FAMILY BISTONIN^. 



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LIPOGONIA, gen. nov. 



Forewing : Elongate ; the costa straight, convex only just before 

 apex ; termen and inner margin forming a single curve from apex 

 to base ; no fovea. 



Hindwing : Elongate ; apex and termen well rounded. 



Antennae of $ plumose ; palpi quite short and drooping ; tongue 

 absent; frons slightly protuberant; frenulum present; fore tibia 

 with a strong claw at extremity on the outer side ; hind tibia with 

 two quite short terminal spurs. 



Neuration : Forewing, cell longer than half of wing ; discocellular 

 slightly inbent ; first median nervule at f , second at ; radials 

 normal ; subcostal vein strongly bent down at end ; veins 7, 8, 9 

 stalked from the bend ; 10 and 11 coincident throughout ; hindwing, 

 costal and subcostal approximated for quite half of cell ; veins 

 3 and 7 from well before angles of cell. 



Type : Lipogonia rufivena, spec. nov. 



Distinguished from Omplialucha, Warr., by the absence of fovea, 

 and from Aphilopota and Haggardia by the narrower wings ; from 

 all three by the claw of fore tibia. 



8. LIPOGONIA EUFIVEXA, spec. nov. 



Forewing : White, thickly and coarsely speckled and striated with 

 fuscous ; costal edge yellowish, with short and numerous black 

 dots ; the veins rust colour ; inner line squarely bent in cell, from 

 costa at -j, oblique below middle to ^ of inner margin, marked 

 mainly by black spots on the costa and veins ; outer line black, 

 thick, regularly lunulate-dentate, curved from ;} of costa to middle 

 of inner margin, immediately followed by a narrow pure white 

 space ; submarginal line just beyond, dark between veins, but 

 obscure and interrupted ; a row of fine black terminal dashes ; 

 fringe mottled fuscous and white ; cellspot black. 



Hindwing : Paler, the speckling fine and grey ; a dentate lunulate 

 outer curved line edged with whitish. 



Underside paler, the speckling finer, mixed with yellowish ; an 

 outer line in both wings. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish, thickly speckled with dark ; 

 the frons browner. 



Expanse of wings, 34 mm. 



1 $ from Smithfield, Orange Free State, South Africa, 1909 

 (Kannerneyer). 



