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43. Omphalucha ? rufinubes s]irc. nov. 



Foreifini/ : silver grey, with a nitons tinge in parts ; lines black; first thick, 

 cnrved from ono-fonrth of cost;i to near lase of inner margin, preceJed by a 

 diffuse black and rnfons shade ; outer line from three-fourths of costa to four- 

 fifths of inner margin, sinnons, outcurved beyond cell, then incnrved, somewhat 

 lunnlate-dentate below middle, followed by a broad outwardly dentate red-brown 

 shade, beyond which the marginal area is silver-grey, with a few black scales 

 and large black marginal hinnles between the veins ; midway between first and 

 onter lines is a dill'nse dark median shade, outcurved ;ibove round the black cell- 

 spot, vertical and irregularly lunnlate-dentate below ; inner margin between the 

 lines rufous-tinged ; below the middle the subraarginal red-brown shade is edged 

 with shining whitish : fringe fuscous, with a pale shining base. 



Ilindivhiy : like forewing, but without first line, and jjaler at base. 



Underside glossy grey, speckled with blackish and tinged with vinous ; all 

 the markings obscurely reproduced. 



Face and palpi dark brown ; verte.v, thorax, and abdomen grey ; patagia 

 with an obliipic black bar towards their tips ; abdomen with a black bar at 

 base. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



1 ? from N. Bailnndu, Angola, Sejitember lODl (Pemberton). 



Placed in (hnplirilurlia provisionally. 



St-bfamilt ARCOTINAE. 

 44. Chog^ada funesta spec. nov. 



Forewinfi : pale grey, thickly striated, and in outer half of wing suffused, 

 with dark smoky grey ; first lino at one-fourth, oljliipie inwards and double, starting 

 from a black spot on costa; median shade dilfuse and black, outcurved round 

 the smoky black ocelloid cell-mark, then straight to middle of inner margin; 

 outer line lunnlate-dentate from three-fourths of costa, slightly jirojecting be3-ond 

 cell, then incurved to close to median shade, the space between them, except 

 at costa, smoky black ; marginal area lilackish grey, with an obscure pale waved 

 submarginal line ; the black shade between outer and middle line is diflusely 

 continued at right angles above vein 4 to hindmargin ; small black marginal 

 sjiots ; fringe dark grey. 



linidirinij : with the basal third pale grey; outer two-thirds blackish; the 

 lines as in forewing, but the basal line wanting. 



Underside pearly whitish, with a grey tinge; ronnd black discal spots; the 

 outer line black ; a broad black marginal fascia in forewing, not reaching anal 

 angle, and leaving small pale ])atches at apex and between veins % and 4; in 

 hindwing narrower and apical only. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey, the last witli blackish rings. 



Ex))anse of wings : 35 mm. 



1 i from Durban, Natal (G. F. Leigh). 



4o. Ectropis inelegans spec. nov. 



Vorcirimj: dirty grey, sprinkled with darker scales; the nnirkings darker, 

 but verv much obscured ; the usual inner markings, the basal line, the median 



