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Ilindwing with termen slightly bent in middle; colonred like forewing, first line 

 wanting, both the others weak, marked with fine black vein-dots and ending in 

 larger dots at inner margin ; no cell-dot; termen and fringe as on forewing. 



Forewing beneath whitish at hindraargin (more broadly distally) and very 

 narrowly along termen, otherwise snffnsed with red ; postmedian line present 

 thongh not sharp; cell-dot obsolete; a dark reddish terminal line. Hindwing 

 beneath whitish, without markings ; a weak, interrnpted reddish terminal line. 



Madagascar, Antananarivo (Chnlliat). Type in coll. L. B. Front, received 

 through Le Moult. 



46. Acidalia ludibunda sp. nov. 



S. Exceedingly similar to A. miiiorata Bdv. (Fauue Ent. Mailmj. 115) = con- 

 sentanea Walk. {List Lep. Ins. xsii. 745), agreeing in size, shape, markings, the 

 black face and npperside of palpus, etc. 



Differs as follows : Antennal ciliation fully twice as long as diameter of shaft 

 (in minorata scarcely longer than diameter), hindtarsns rather longer (over two- 

 thirds tibia, in minorata little over one-half), ground-colour with a decided tone 

 of yellow (in minorata whitish bone-colour to fleshy, or, when the irroration is 

 strong, greyish), dark irromtion very slight, discal dots generally smaller, terminal 

 dots very minute (sometimes obsolescent posteriorly). The postmedian line does 

 not show the darkened denticulations which are frequent in the minorata series. 



Selnkwe, S. Rhodesia; type, March 1912 and another May 1013 (F. W. Short); 

 Transkei, 2 (?c?(F. Barrett); all in coll. L. B. Front. New Hanover, Natal, April 

 1013, 1 c? in coll. A.J. T. Janse. 



Hitherto mixed among minorata Bdv., which perhaps includes several closely 

 allied and very difticnlt species, but from which the present one must certainly be 

 disentangled. 



47. Acidalia elegans sp. nov. 



c?, 22 mm. Face and palpus blackish. Antennal ciliation moderate. Vertex 

 white. Collar ochreous. Thorax and abdomen white, the latter with a fuscous, 

 black-mixed dorsal spot at the beginning of each segment from the second to the 

 seventh. Foreleg fuscous above. Hindtarsus quite short. 



Forewinf) pure white, with a very few black atoms ; extreme costal edge 

 marked with dark fiiscons near base ; lines fuscous; antemedian somewhat curved, 

 much interrupted, chiefly showing at the veins (where it is slightly dusted with 

 black) and as a black dot on costa ; median shade thick and rather ill-defined, 

 starting from a blackish spot just beyond middle of costa, forming a complete ring 

 round (not touching) the large black discal dot, thick on distal side of the same, 

 somewhat sinuous and deeply lunnlate-dentate (the teeth outwards) in posterior 

 half; postmedian line marked by black dots at costa and hindmargin and smaller 

 ones on .some of the other veins, entirely interrujited between the radials and 

 between M- and fold ; accompanied distally by a band of fuscous shading, which is 

 broken up into three patches by the interruptions at the places indicated ; no 



terminal line ; base of fringe dotted with fuscous at vein-ends. Ilindwing shaped 



as in ornata Scop. ; no antemedian line : median shade obsolete on the distal side 

 of the cell-dot; postmedian line less completely interrupted than on forewing, the 

 shades distally to it more broken into spots ; a thick, curved snbterminal line from 



