( 11-1 ) 



Hindivings : similar : the onter line tbinuer, and obsolescent above middle. 

 Underside yellower : the veins ocbreons ; mar<.anal area tinged with rnfons. 

 Face, jialjii, and collar dark brown : vertex, tborax, and abdomen like wings. 

 Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 

 One d from North Lnzon, .60uO— GOOO feet ("Whitehead). 



2711. Tephrinopsis marmorata -^p. nuv. 



Forewings : pale ochreons or bone-colonr, varied with fnscous striae and atoms; 

 the lines dark fnscons or blackish ; first at one-fonrth, bent below costa, then 

 obliqne : second central, straight and obliqae : third blackish, at two-thirds, angled 

 beyond cell, then incurved to inner margin at two-thirds, followed by a brown shade 

 marked with black patches, which is again edged by the pale ochreoxTS snbmarginal 

 line, which ends in a pale triangular apical patch ; the margin beyond it darker, 

 with thicker striae ; marginal line concise, brown : fringe pale fnscous, except at 

 extreme ajiex, where it becomes ochreons. 



Ilindtcings : with cell-dot and postmedian line brown, the latter followed by a 

 pale brown shade, sometimes marked with dark spots. 



Underside duller. Face, vertex, and collar dull brown : thora.x and 'abdomen 

 ochreons, spotted with brown. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



Both sexes from Weenen, Natal, October 1893 to January 18'.)4. 



The species varies much. 



The above description was made from a dark specimen: the palest aberration, 

 for which I ])ropose the name pallidu, is yellowish ochreons, with all the markings 

 faintly fulvous, and no dark dusting whatever, and all intermediate forms occur. 

 The fringes vary from fnscons to ochreou.s, or ochreons chequered with darker. 



27 1. Tycoonia natalensis sp. nov. 



$. Forewings: olivc-ochreous, striated and sutFused with rufous and fuscous, 

 the whole marginal area being ferruginous brown : first line at one-fonrth, bent 

 below costa, rufous, starting from a fuscous costal mark ; median shade diffuse, 

 including the small black cell-spot : outer line at two-thirds, indented basewards 

 beyond cell and on submedian fold : snbmarginal line wavy, indistinct, the marginal 

 area within it deeper coloured tlian that beyond it ; a dark blotcli at anal angle : 

 fringe rufous, pinkish white towards apex. 



Ilindwings : similar ; the median line less diffuse ; the submarginal marked by 

 black blotches below apex. 



Underside bright yellow, with fuscous striutions : forewings with some red 

 scales in the submedian area ; marginal area bright ferruginous, tinged with yellow 

 on costa, and with a whitish smear below apex ; in the hindwings with a yellow 

 patch in middle of hindmargin. Face and paljii dull brown ; tliorax and abdomen 

 like ground-colour of wings. 



? . Pale yellow, finely speckled with brownish ; tiic lines all fine, only the onter 

 one distinct, and without the indentations that are visible in the S ; ma'i'ginal area 

 hardly darker, suffused and speckled with dark towards apex and anal angle ; fringe 

 yellow. 



Underside yellow, with the marginal area pale ferruginous along the outer line : 

 the head, thorax, and abdomen all vellow. 



