480 Annals of the South African Museum. 



SUB-FAMILY CATOCALINAE. 



GEN. EUONYCHODES, gen. nov. 



Tongue strongly developed ; frons rough-haired ; palpi porrect, 

 the second segment shaggily haired beneath, the third long, smooth, 

 and hlunt ; antennae of ? simple; thorax and patagia long-haired; 

 abdomen smooth; pectus and femora with rough woolly hairs; all 

 the tibiae spined ; the fore tibiae with a long claw at extremity on 

 the inside and a shorter one on the outside ; forewing with veins 

 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked, 8 and 9 anastomosing to form a very long 

 areole, 10 rising from its apex ; vein 5 from close to 4 in forewing, 

 a little above it in hindwing ; costal and subcostal of hindwing 

 approximated for f of cell. Type E. albivenata, spec. nov. 



Differs from Acanthonyx, Hmps., by the spined fore tibiae and the 

 two claws at extremity ; Acant/wnyx has only one claw and no 

 spines. 



20. EUONYCHODES ALBIVENATA, spec. nov. 

 (Plate XL., fig. 14.) 



Forewing : Olive grey, tinged with olive brown and with black ; 

 the veins pale ; costal area above subcostal vein as far as outer line 

 and inner margin below vein 1 of the pale ground colour, speckled 

 with darker ; the cell black with some olive brown at centre, closed 

 by an oblique deep black lunule, followed by an olive ochreous 

 diffuse patch ; submedian interval black with an olive brow r n streak 

 along middle ; the bases of intervals and more slightly their extremi- 

 ties before the pale outer line black; outer and subterminal lines 

 approximated between veins 5 and 2 ; the intervals before termen 

 blackish with pale centres ; terminal black lunules ; fringe olive 



grey. 



Hindiciiuj : Olive brown in basal half ; a broad black curved outer 

 band, followed by a whitish band before a diffuse blackish sub- 

 terminal shade with dentate outer edge ; terminal area olive before 

 black terminal lunules. 



Underside yellowish grey with yellow veins ; both wings with 

 black cellspots, black outer bands edged with whitish, and dentate 

 edged dark subterminal shades ; hindwing with the termen whitish, 

 forewing with only an apical patch. 



Head, thorax, and dorsum olive ochreous mixed with black. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



1 $ without exact locality label. 



