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area darker ; a row of distinct black terminal dots ; fringe grey 

 mottled with dark. 



Hindwing : Paler, without the olive-brown suffusion, and speckled 

 with blackish only along inner and outer margins ; a black ring at 

 end of cell before a very obscurely marked lunulate dentate outer 

 line ; a black prsesubmarginal shade ; terminal black spots and 

 fringe as in forewings. 



Underside of forewing olive-grey, of hindwing white, black 

 speckled ; both wings with large black cellspot, black-dotted 

 outer line, and thick black praesubmarginal shade, interrupted 

 between veins 3 and 4 ; a row of black terminal dots. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey speckled with black; the anal 

 tuft whiter ; face and palpi externally brown. 



Expanse of wings, 34 mm. 



1 $ from Cape Dio, Hout Bay (Sclater). 



SUB-FAMILY SEMIOTHISIN^. 

 GEN. PEEIDELA, Warr. 



11. PERIDELA IN.EQUILINEA, spec. nov. 



Forewing : Pale ochreous, the shading fuscous brown, with fine 

 darker striations ; lines black ; the inner bent or curved below costa, 

 preceded by a space of pure ground colour ; median line vertical to 

 vein 3, then inwardly oblique to inner margin near inner line ; space 

 between it and inner line pale brown, with black-brown suffusion 

 on submedian fold ; outer line oblique outwards to vein 6, then 

 inwards, and again excurved above inner margin, thicker and 

 blacker at each extremity, where it is also preceded by brown 

 striae ; separated from the praesubmarginal brown shade by a space 

 of pure ground colour ; subterminal line ochreous, the terminal area 

 beyond it pale fuscous, obliquely limited above vein 6, where it leaves 

 the apex itself pale ; fringe worn. 



Hindwing : Pale ochreous, with scattered dark striations, forming 

 faint outer and submarginal bands with paler bands in between. 



Underside pale ochreous with fuscous dusting; the dark markings 

 of upperside partially showing through. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, spotted and varied with 

 pale brown. 



Expanse of wings, 28 mm. 



1 $ from Namaqualand, South Africa (Worden). 



Close to P. crw/ascia, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv., p. 110, from Mpeta. 



