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Subfamily BISTONINAE. 



26. Hemerophila curta spec. nov. 



Forewuig : wood-brown, with line dark specliling in places ; costa with fine 

 black striations ; lines black ; first from one-third of costa to one-fourth of inner 

 margin, bluntly angled inwards on subcostal vein and outwards above and below 

 it ; outer line from four-fifths of costa to middle of inner margin, inangled 

 between fi and 7 and angled outwardly on 6, then sinuously curved inwards with 

 slight teeth on veins; between the lines a diffuse blackish median shade, obi irpie 

 inwards at first and parallel in the main to outer line, but almost hidden in the 

 blackish suffusion which fills the interval between the two lines from inner margin 

 to middle of cell : submarginal line very obscure, preceded between 4 and (> by 

 two black streaks and followed by short streaks to margin above 4 ; the marginal 

 shade slightly deeper hrown ; slight black marginal dots ; fringe brown. 



iUiuhvltiy : with the inner line and median shade produced diffusely as 

 antemediau shades forming a sort of fascia ; outer line black and distinct, from 

 three-fourths of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, notched on vein 7, followed 

 by a lirown shade ; praesubmargiual shade strong towards inner margin and forming 

 a black pale-tipped blotch beyond cell ; a small dark cell-spot. 



Underside paler, brownish ochreous, with all the markings blackish ; outer 

 line Idack, not corresponding with line of upperside, where it shows through 

 on forewing. 



Face, palpi, and antennae blackish ; thorax and abdomen wood-brown, the 

 dorsum tinged with blackish ; foretarsi black, with pale joints. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



'Z $i from Park Ilynnie 40 miles above Durban (G. F. Leigh). 



Subfamily SCOTOPTERYGINAE. 



27. Catascia alcides s[iec. nov. 



Forewing : fawn-colour, dark-speckled, especially along costa ; lines very 

 indistinct, dull red-brown, marked by dark vein-dashes ; first at one-fifth, angled 

 on subcostal vein, then vertical ; outer line at three-fourtlis, parallel to outer 

 margin, lunulate-dentate ; submarginal line formed of slightly paler Innnles, 

 emphasized by the marginal area beyond being a little darker, the two between 

 4 and filled in with reddish, tipped with paler and edged with black externally ; 

 those on subniedian interval also black-edged ; a reddisli median line sliglitly 

 before middle, followed liy a broad diffusi^ darker shade enclosing a cell-mark of 

 jiale ground-colour ; a row of marginal black sjwts, those between 4 and H larger 

 and followed in the fringe by blackish spots ; fringe concolorous. 



HiiKhcing : similar, Imt without inner line; the median shade strong, redilish 

 fuscous, enclosing a white cell-spof. 



Underside jialer, with all the lines marked ; the lunules of submarginal line 

 between 2 and 4 filled in with black. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen all fawn-colour. 



Exjianse of wings : 4S mm. 



1 cf, 1 ? from Lnebo, Kassai River (P. Landbeck). 



