334 NOVITATES ZOOLOQICAE XXII. 1915. 



mark strong, somewhat strigiform ; median line arising from a spot beyond middle 

 of costa, dentate thronghont, incurved so as to touch discal mark, but here vague, 

 deep]}' incnrved in snbmedian area, angled outwards at SftP, reaching hindmargin 

 midwa_v between the others ; postmedian line rather dcepl)' dentate, perpendicular 

 from before three-fourths costa to R', deepl.y incurved between radials and 

 moderately deeply in submedian area ; snbterminal line little thickened except 

 at the radial bend and to a less extent at the subtornal one ; its lunules 

 anteriorly and on each side of M' accompanied proximally by indications of dark 

 spots ; terminal marks thick and elongate, the intervals somewhat shorter than 



the marks ; fringe dark-mottled. Hinclwing with termen somewhat irregularly 



waved (less irregular, especially near tornns, than in Acidalia nigrinotata Warr., 

 Nov. Zool. iv. p. 62). an appreciable though very shallow sinus between the 

 radials ; SC---Ii' very shortly stalked ; concolorous with forewing ; discal mark 

 more roundish ; first line wanting; median forming a deep bay (fully as deep as 

 the width of its month) proximally to the discal mark, thence about as in the 

 allies ; postmedian also with the inward bend between the radials deeper than 

 on forewing, a marked subcostal indentation also present ; distal area nearly as 

 on forewing. 



Undersurface glossy and very weakly marked, the discal spot and post- 

 median line of forewing the most noticeable. 



Mooi River, Natal. Type in coll. Rothschild. 



Doubtfully referred to the Palaearctic genus Olossotropkia. The tongue is 

 long, but not more extreme than in some Acidalia of the marginepunctata Goeze 

 group. Colour of Pti/ehopoda hispidata Warr. {Nov. Zool. xi. p. 469) from Angola, 

 of which only the ? is known, but which is shorter-winged and with the normal 

 hindwing venation and shape of Ptijchopoda, etc. Both this and one of the 

 examples of Discomiosis anfractilinea (described above) have been labelled by 

 Warren " dentigerata Walk. ? " ; but Walker's type at Oxford {List Lep. Ins. xxvi. 

 p. 1603) is an Acidalia, identical with the species which passes (I think correctly) 

 as rudisaria Walk. {op. cit. xxiii. p. 790) ; the type of the last-named is lost. 



SO. Ptychopoda ascepta sp. nov. 



S ? , 19-20 mm. Aspect of the Indian P. actiosaria Walk., both wings slightly 

 narrower, with costal margin relatively rather longer, termen of forewing more 

 oblique, of hindwing less convex, face and upperside of palpus perhaps rather more 

 blackish fuscous. Hindleg of S short, more slender, without the strong hair-tufts 

 of actiosaria. 



Forewing sometimes coloured quite as in actiosaria, sometimes rather more 

 reddish, markings about as in that species, variable in intensity, median shade 

 sometimes stronger and thicker, postmedian line line, rather nearer the termen, the 

 proximal of the snbterminal i)air sometimes almost equally strongly expressed, 

 placed near and parallel to the postmedian ; fringe not, or only extremely weakly, 



dark dusted at base. Hindwing marked about as in actiosaria, sometimes rather 



l)aler ; fringe as on forewing. 



Underside rather paler than in actiosaria, the discal dot and fine (often rather 

 sharp) postmedian line alone developed. 



Cape (probably Annshaw), type <S in coll. L. B. Front ; Annshaw, 3 ? ? (coll. 

 L. B. Front et coll. Brit. Mus.). All collected by Miss F. Barrett, mixed in coll. 



