488 Annals of tlie South African Museum. 



brown as far as subterminal line ; both wings with outer line marked 

 in black below costa and with slight cellspots. 



Head and thorax dark like forewings ; dorsum not so dark ; fore 

 and mid tibiae dark, hind tibiae glossy slate grey ; all the tarsi dark 

 with pale joints. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



1 $ from Cape Town, August, 1903. (Lightfoot.) Bred from 

 larva. 



SUB-FAMILY ASCOTINAE. 



GEN. MYRIOBLEPHARA, Warr. 



34. MYRIOBLEPHARA DECISA, spec. nov. 

 (Plate XLL, fig. 11.) 



Foreiving : Whitish, tinged in places with pale brown and slightly 

 speckled with dark atoms ; the lines black and well marked, 

 thickened at costa ; inner line projecting outwards in cell, vertical to 

 vein 1, then inwardly oblique to inner margin, where it is preceded 

 by a blotch of black scales ; median outcurved in upper half, then 

 incurved and marked by black vein spots ; outer line outcurved to 

 vein 6, then incurved parallel to median, minutely lunulate dentate, 

 inangled on vein 1, along which it is connected by a fine black line 

 with angle of inner line, then oblique outwards, followed by a pale, 

 brown band, which is swollen into a double blackish blotch between 

 veins 2 and 4 ; the interval between median and outer lines below 

 subcostal vein white ; subterminal line pale, ill-defined, with a brown 

 cloud on costa before it and the terminal area brownish beyond it, 

 with a darker blotch beyond cell ; black terminal spots large ; 

 fringe grey. 



Hindwing : "With traces of blackish inner and outer lines on inner 

 margin, the inner preceded by a grey line, the outer followed by a 

 fine ochreous one, the whole wing grey-speckled. 



Underside ochreous speckled with brown ; costal areas yellowish ; 

 the lines on forewing duller ; hindwing with straight thick brown 

 inner line, followed by a round black cellspot. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with yellow and 

 speckled with black. 



Expanse of wings: 26 mm. 



1 $ without locality label. 



