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Head brownish grey ; palpi marked with black externally ; tegulae 

 and patagia paler, licheia grey ; metathorax tinged with fulvous ; 

 dorsum ochreous grey, the segments slightly marked in blackish ; 

 palpi below, venter, pectus, and legs white ; tarsi and spurs black 

 and white. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



1 2 from Cape Town, 1911. (P. C. Keytel.) 



FAMILY NOCTUIDAE. 

 SUB-FAMILY EUXOINAE. 



GEN. EUXOA, Hbn. 



2. EUXOA CONTINGENS, spec. nov. 

 (Plate XL., fig. 3.) 



Foreivincj : Pale grey brown ; costal edge dark grey above a pale 

 subcostal streak ; subbasal line pale with black edges ; inner and 

 outer lines black conversely edged with pale, the inner twice acutely 

 angled below costa and there indistinct, outcurved and strong 

 between median vein and vein 1, strongly excurved below vein 1; 

 the subcostal, median, and vein 1 finely pale ; cell filled up with 

 brownish fuscous, the orbicular, somewhat flattened, and the 

 reniform brownish with pale annuli outlined with black ; the 

 claviform long, dark brown, with black outline; outer line quadrately 

 excurved round cell, touching and forming part of outer edge of 

 reniform ; subterrninal line whitish, minutely waved, and close to 

 termen, preceded by black wedge-shaped blotches from 6 to 2 ; a row 

 of black terminal lunules ; fringe concolorous. 



Hindwing : Luteous white, with darker veins ; fringe white. 



Underside of forewing ochreous grey, the costa whiter ; of 

 hindwing white with large dark cellspot ; both wings with traces of 

 dark outer line. 



Head grey brown ; the tegulae and patagia much mixed with white ; 

 the former with black middle line, the latter with black submarginal 

 line angled in front with a white patch beyond it ; dorsum pale 

 brownish grey ; palpi externally black ; legs dark fuscous with the 

 joints white. 



Expanse of wings : 36 mm. 



1 $ from Calvinia District, Loeriesfontein, September, 1891. 

 <G. Alston.) 



