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its outer nearly straight t'roui apex to anal angle, consisting of two thick liinnlate- 

 dentate chocolate-brown lines, alternating with two of lilac scales ; minute brown 

 marginal clots between the veins : a triangular brown blotch of brown and lilac 

 scales on margin between veins 4 and 0, the ajiex touching outer edge of fasciti, 

 the base expanding fanwise across the cream-coloured fringe ; cell-spot black. 



Ilituhciiig : similar, but without basal markings ; the patch at middle of 

 hindmargin reduced and not extending into the fringe. 



Underside with the markings dull brick-red. 



Head and thorax brown and lilac, like basal patch ; abdomen cream-colour ; 

 lower ijart of face paler ; underside of abdomen and legs cream-colour ; forelegs 

 reddish in front. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



1 ? from Shilouvane, Transvaal, November 1'.MJ2 (H. Junod). 



Allied to L. batcsi Wlngru. 



Subfamily BISTONINAE. 

 '■ Apocheima fiiliginosa sjiec. uov. 



Foretciny : smoky blackish with a faint purjilish tinge ; costa black, varied 

 with uchreous ; lines deei> black ; tirst from one-fourth of costa incurved below 

 median towards base of inner margin, the whole basal area deeper black ; outer 

 line from three-fourths of costa, sinuous, bent outwards beyond cell and agaiu less 

 strongly ou snbmedian fold, followed by a slight reddish tinge ; marginal area 

 deejjer black; fringe concclurous ; cell-spot black; a very faint median shade is 

 visible shortly before outer line. 



Hhidiving: similar, but without basal line. 



Underside paler, more fuscous, with slight striatious ; costa of both wings with 

 black striae. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the thcinix and patagia intensely black ; 

 antennal shaft white ; the pectinations fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



1 S from Durban, Natal (U. F. Leigh). 



This species has been bred. The ? is apterous, with a short, thick, club- 

 shaped jjrocess only ; legs thick and black ; abdomen peppered black and ochreous. 



Subfamily ASCOTINAE. 



8. Alcis acutangula sjiec. nov. 



ForewiiKj : greyish ochreous ; the ground-colour showing only in the median 

 space, the basal and marginal areas being suffused with pale olive-brownish and 

 thickly sprinkled with dark scales ; lines black, very fine ; first from costa at about 

 one-third, vertical in the main, to the snbmedian fold, there bluntly bent nearly 

 at a right angle and running straight to one-fifth of inner margin, preceded by a 

 diffuse brown shade; outer line from two-thirds of costa, acutely angled outwards 

 on vein 5, then incurved, and below vein 3 lunulate-tleutate to just beyond middle 

 of inner margin, the outward tooth on vein 1 strongly marked, followed by a thick 

 brown shade ; submargiual line pnh, waved, the luuules lillud in with brown, 



