366 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXII. 19ir.. 



Under-surface more gloss}-, almost markingless, the postmedian line feebly 

 tmcealile. 



Cape Colony: Simon's Town, October 1904 (P. de la Garde). Type in coll. 

 Brit. Mns. 



Facies cnriously Palaearctic, snggestiug a diminutive pale obscurata Scliill. 

 with the angled postmedian line oi ambiguata Dap. or variegata Dnp. 



106. Elophos barbarica sp. no v. 



<?, 32 mm. Best comparable with E. caelibaria spurcaria Lab., with the 

 most heavily irrorated, most weakly marked e.xamples of which it shares the 

 scaling and general effect, e.xcept for its smaller size and differently shaped 

 hindwing. Face rather less protuberant, dark fuscons. Palpus dark fuscous. 

 Antenna rather short, the pectinations stouter and even shorter than in caelibaria, 

 equally clavate. Thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings. 



Forewing with termen slightly less oblique than in caelibaria, DO more 

 incurved (cell-spot at just one-half wing-length), SO' free, SO- anastomosing rather 

 strongly with S0^~*; costal edge finely yellowish, the ground-colour otherwise 

 fleshy, not yellowish ; lines e.xtremely indistinct, except at the veins, the costal 

 spots at their origin not large ; antemedian more curved anteriorly than in 

 caelibaria ; a median shade indicated by a costal mark opposite tbe cell-spot ; 

 postmedian much nearer the termen than in any Palaearctic species, arising at costa 

 4 mm. from ape\- ; cell-spot smaller than in most caelibaria, roundish ; no terminal 



line. Himlwing with termen strongly convex, especially in posterior part ; 



cell ratber short ; postmedian line midway between cell-spot and termen. 



Underside with cell-spots and faint traces of postmedian line. 



Foot of Nieuwveld Mountains, 5 miles N.W. of Beaufort West (Mrs. Butt). 

 Type and a second, very worn, examjjle in coll. Rothschild. 



The genus Giiojjhos Tr. (sens, lat.), as is well known on biological grounds, is 

 heterogeneous and in need of revision, I use Elophos Bdv. (with type operario, 

 Hbn.) for the small group with smooth wing-margins, shortly pectinate S antenna 

 and apterous or semiajjterous ? . The few Aethiopian species of " Gnophos " yet 

 described have been referred to Catascia (wing-margins crenulate) ; but in part, at 

 least, do not belong to the group at all. barbarica shows superficially an aspect 

 which seems rather prevalent in South Africa, appearing in the five or six species 

 described as Dijscia (= Scodiona), in " Idiot ephra " simplex Warr. {Ann. S. A/r. 

 Mus. X. 490) * and even in Ectropis delosaria Walk. ; the auteuual structure will 

 distinguish it at a glance, 



107. Buzura potaenia sp. nov. 



(?, 07 mm. Face rather rough-scaled ; whitish above, dark fuscous iu middle, 

 fading off below. Vertex and auteuual shaft whitish ; pectinations long, dark. 

 Thorax and abdomen whitish, mixed with fuscons except front of thorax ; abdomen 

 not very robust. Legs whitish ; foreleg dark fuscons above except at extremities 

 of joints; hindtibia not bilated, but furnished on upperside proximally with a tuft 

 of projecting scales. 



* I am at a loss to imagine how this species can have been compared with 7. ciirvhrna Warr., to 

 which I cannot see the remotest resemblance. It should be adiled that the ^ antenna in simjilex bears 

 slender, well-ciliated pectinations, two pairs to each joint. 



