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20. Descriptions of New Species of Lepidoptera Beterocera in the 

 South African Museum. By W. WARREN, M.A., F.E.S. 



FAMILY ACRONYCTIDAE. 

 SUB-FAMILY ACEONYCTINAE. 



GEN. THALATHA, Wlk. 



1. THALATHA VARICOLOR, spec. nov. 

 (Plate XL., fig. 12.) 



Forewing : Grey, slightly greenish-tinged in places ; costal area to 

 beyond middle paler, ochreous with a greenish flush, with oblique 

 black spots at origin of lines ; inner line black, connected with base 

 by a black streak in submedian fold and preceded by a black spot in 

 cell ; basal area below cell filled in with blackish grey ; claviform 

 stigma large, edged with black ; orbicular a flattened oval, whitish 

 edged with black, its centre brown ; reniform large filled up with 

 grey edged inwardly with chestnut brown, defined by black ; median 

 shade black, thick, oblique to reniform stigma, then interrupted, 

 followed in submedian interval by a black blotch to outer line ; lower 

 half of median area whitish grey ; outer line black, dentate lunulate, 

 double filled in with grey, the lunule on submedian fold with white ; 

 area beyond outer line dark grey ; subterminal line pale, ill-defined 

 with patches of chestnut brown and dark grey preceding it ; a series 

 of black terminal lunules connected by a wavy black line ; fringe 

 pale grey, doubly mottled with black. 



Hindwing : White in basal half, dark fuscous in terminal, with 

 dark cellspot and traces of dark outer line edged with paler; a- 

 black waved terminal line ; fringe white. 



Underside white at base and along inner margin ; the forewing 

 becoming blackish fuscous before termen ; cellspot black ; fringe as 

 above ; hindwing speckled with blackish, with dark outer line and 

 large black cellspot. 



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