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patches at base of veins 2 to 4 replaced by orange ; a narrow, 

 irregularly waved, dark subterminal shade in the place of the two 

 oblique shades ; the streak in interval between 5 and 6 orange ; the 

 black terminal dots inwardly edged with oi>ange ; the lines more 

 distinct ; the inner indicated by a black dot on vein 1, the outer by 

 dots on veins 6, 2, and 1 ; the fringe blackish grey cut by pale rays 

 beyond the veins ; no black streak on inner margin, nor black 

 edging to vein 1. 



Hindwiny : Uniform brownish fuscous, with black terminal dots 

 and white fringe. 



Underside of forewing brownish ochreous, thickly speckled with 

 darker ; the dark basal shade and the reniform showing through ; 

 hindwing pale ochreous with dark speckling and a large blackish 

 triangular cell mark. 



Head, thorax, and pectus whitish with minute dark atoms ; 

 abdomen ochreous grey with dark speckling, especially on under- 

 side ; legs ochreous with darker speckling, the tarsi fuscous with 

 pale joints. 



Expanse of wings : 43 mm. 



1 5 from Calvinia District, Loeriesfontein, Cape, September, 

 1891. (G. Alston.) 



9. CEKTRARTHRA CRETACEA, spec. nov. 

 (Plate XL., fig. 11.) 



Forewing : Chalky whitish, speckled with grey ; the costa 

 narrowly dark grey ; median vein at base and submedian fold finely 

 blackish, containing between them an olive fuscous streak to end of 

 cell with a white streak above it in cell; veins 2, 3, 4 finely edged 

 with black at base, the intervals at extreme base white edged faintly 

 with fulvous ; reniform stigma white with black lateral edges ; an 

 oblique olive fuscous shade from termen below apex to reniform 

 stigma, and a slighter one from vein 4 to submedian fold, forming 

 patches in the intervals separated by the white veins ; distinct 

 black terminal dots in the intervals ; fringe white mixed with pale 

 grey ; lines brownish grey ; the inner vertical to median vein, then 

 strongly and bluntly outcurved and bent on submedian fold; the 

 outer oblique to vein 7, vertical and marked by blackish vein spots 

 to vein 4, thence well marked and wavy to f of inner margin. 



Hindwing : White ; the terminal border broadly grey ; inwardly 

 bounded by a line of blackish vein dashes ; a black mark at base of 

 veins 3, 4 ; fringe white. 



Underside of forewing dingy white ; the cell and broad terminal 



