506 Annals of the South African Museum. 



FAMILY HEPIALIDAE. 



GEN. GOBGOPIS, Hiibn. 



66. GORGOPIS OLIVACEONOTATA, spec. nov. 

 (Plate XLI., fig. 28.) 



Forewing : Pale grey, marked with rows of olive-brown lunules ; 

 costa with a brown white-edged streak at base ; then with black 

 subcostal dashes ; a dark brown wedge-shaped mark at base of 

 submedian fold, another at base of cell, and a round spot in fold 

 below it ; two obliquely placed contiguous olive-brown spots at 

 middle of cell, joining on to an incurved brown mark in the fold ; 

 the cell and fold between these spots white ; a dark lunule in upper 

 part of cell beyond, and two olive-brown spots at the end, followed 

 by three white blotches coalescing into an oblique streak and then 

 by the outer line formed of five brown contiguous blotches from 

 vein 5 to inner margin, a brown spot on vein 6 with another above 

 it and beyond, and an oblong costal blotch marked on costa by a 

 white spot; subterminal line formed of brown blotches, coalescing 

 from costa to vein 6, and followed above vein 4 by white spots ; 

 below vein 1 there are two or three olive-yellow round spots with 

 white scaling interspersed ; pairs of short dark dashes at end of 

 veins ; fringe shining pale grey with dark basal and middle lines. 



Hindwing : Dull olive grey ; the costa at apex with two round 

 brown spots. 



Underside shining olive grey ; the costa of forewing pale grey 

 with dark brown spots at intervals. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen olive brown and pale grey intermixed ; 

 the antennae dark brown ; patagia and shoulders marked with whitish 

 hairs. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



1 3 from Mowbray, Cape Town. (Miss Lloyd.) 



67. GORGOPIS ALBIPLUMIS, spec. nov. 

 (Plate XLI., fig. 27.) 



Forewing : Pale sparsely clothed with olive-grey or olive-brown 

 scales ; these are thickest and darkest along costa and cell ; this 

 darker area is limited by a diffuse pale space running obliquely from 

 inner margin near base to apex, beyond which there are seen three 

 ill-defined rows of dark blotches between the veins separated by pale 



