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SUB-FAMILY SEMIOTHISINAE. 



GEN. TEPHEINA, Hbn. 



35. TEPHKINA CONFERTAEIA, spec. nov. 

 (Plate XLL, fig. 8.) 



Forewiiuj : White suffused with brownish grey and thickly striated 

 with fuscous ; costa dotted white and blackish ; inner arid outer lines 

 black, conversely white-edged ; the inner strongly curved, black 

 spotted on veins ; outer straight to vein 6, then incurved, the veins 

 beyond it thickened with short black striae; sub terminal line whitish, 

 inflected on vein 5, above which it is preceded by a blackish cloud ; 

 a blackish cellspot, traversed by an obscure sinuous median line ; 

 black terminal lunules ; fringe brown with slight pale mottlings. 



Hindwing : Suffused with pale dull grey ; an outer and subterminal 

 darker line ; beyond the latter the terminal area is whiter ; cellspot 

 and terminal lunules black. 



Underside of forewing blurred grey, of hindwing white with grey 

 speckles ; cellspots and outer and subterminal lines in both wings, 

 but much clearer in hindwing. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey brown. 



Expanse of wings : 27 mm. 



1 $ from Montague Baths, Cape, November, 1902. (F. Purcell.) 



GEN. TEPHBINOPSIS, Warr. 



36. TEPHRINOPSIS BITAENIATA, spec. nov. 



Forewing : White, thickly speckled with brown ; inner line obso- 

 lete ; a brown line or shade from below the black cellspot straight to 

 inner margin ; a very indistinct outer line, fine and brown, oblique to 

 vein 6, then inwardly oblique and often ill-marked ; beyond it a 

 brown submarginal shade, formed of dark lunules between the veins, 

 slightly bent at vein 5, followed by a pale space without speckling ; 

 a row of black dashes along termen between veins ; fringe with two 

 brown lines. 



Hindwing : Similar, but the median line complete ; terminal line 

 formed of lunules. 



Underside yellowish white ; the two bands brown and conspicuous ; 

 the freckling brown. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white speckled with brown. 



Expanse of wings : 29 mm. 



1 $ from M'fongosi, Zululand, December, 1911. (W. E. Jones j 



