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88. Boarmia barretti sp. nov. 



cJ, 38 mm. Face not at all protuberaut ; concolorons with wings. Palpus 

 shortish ; fuscous, except at tip. Tongue slender. Antenna with the pectinations 

 long, darkly coloured. Vertex, thorax, and abdomen concolorons with wings, the 

 breast fuscous, the abdomen dorsall}' narrowly dark at the ends of the segments. 

 Femora and tibiae fuscous, light spotted ; tarsi light, fuscous spotted ; hindtibia 

 not dilated. 



Forewiiirj not very broad, termen scarcely subcrenulate, rather strongly oblique ; 

 fovea slight ; SC'~- coincident, not anastomosing with C ; light greyish brown with 

 a slight olive tint, clearer brown along hindmargin and along the veins distally; 

 costal, median, apical, and distal areas with fuscous strigulatiou ; lines black ; 

 antemedian from a vertical costal spot at nearly one-third, acutely angled outwards 

 in cell, then oblique inwards, straight to fold, curving more strongly basewards 

 from here to hindmargin ; median obsolescent, suggested by stronger dark shading 

 near the postmedian ; postmedian from a vague costal s[iot at beyond two-thirds, 

 inbent at >SC\ acutely angled at R', parallel with termen to R', then forming a 

 long but very shallow inward curve, reaching hindmargin little beyond middle ; 

 distal area with a white spot between R' and M' ; terminal line fine, black, forming 

 a series of very shallow lunules, meeting in internervular black dots ; fringe weakly 



mottled with fuscous. ■ll'uidwiiKj with termen moderately crenulate ; costal 



region pale, the rest concolorons with forewing ; a blackish spot at base ; traces 

 of antemedian line in inner-marginal part ; an elongate discal mark ; postmedian 

 fine at costa, otherwise thick and black ; accompanied distally by a band of fuscous 

 shading, then by a clear pale band, this again by a narrow brown shade proximally 

 to the almost obsolete subtermiual line ; terminal line and fringe as on forewing. 



Underside paler, with the principal markings reproduced, forewing with discal 

 spot more a])parent than above. 



Transkei (Miss F. Barrett). Type in coll. L. B. Front; a second in coll. 

 Brit. Mus. 



Recalls rujijjlaya Warr., Soc. Zool. ix. o24 {Calascia), but smaller, rather 

 niirrower winged, more olive ; antemedian line of hindwing far proximal to cell- 

 mark, postmedian of forewing differently formed, etc. Perhaps still nearer con- 

 temjitan'a Walk. (List Lep. his. xxi. 3G7), costa of forewing less arched, termen of 

 hindwing less deeply crenulate, colour less brown, discal marks not ocellated. 



8i>. Boarmia complacita sji. nov. 



? , 28 mm. Face and jialpus ochreous brown dotted with blackish ; palpus with 

 rather long-projecting scales beneath. Tongue developed. Head and body con- 

 colorons with wings, the abdomen above slightly darkened at the ends of the 

 segments. Foreleg darkened, with pale spots at the ends of the joints. 



Forewing with costa almost straight, apex rather pronounced, termen oblique, 

 little convex, gently crenulate ; SG'~- coincident ; violet-whitish, somewhat shaded 

 with brown and tolerably strongly irrorated with fuscous ; lines black, not very 

 slender ; antemedian from costa at 3'5 mm. to hindmargin at 2 mm., rather 

 strongly curved ; postmedian from just beyond two-thirds costa (here not strong) 

 somewhat oblique inward, suddenly bent outward before reaching R', here angled 

 and from this point strong, formed as in barretti, the posterior curve rather deep; 



