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with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell ; Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only ; male with a wedge-shaped 

 patch of fuscous andioconia on extremity of vein 6. 



In key differs from Ogdoeonta in the palpi having the 3rd joint long, the 

 abdomen with larga crjsts on 2nd and 3rd segments. 



3913c. Amphidrina pssudagrotis n. sp. 



<i. Head and thorax white mixed with some red-brown and blackish ; 

 antennae black-brown ; abdomen white sHghtly tinged with red-brown except 

 towards base ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white tinged with 

 red-brown, the legs browner. Forewing red-brown mixed with some white 

 especially on basal area, the costal area black and white mixed, the veins of 

 terminal half finely streaked with black ; antemedial hne blackish, dentate, 

 very indistinct to submedian fold where it is angled outwards to the postmediai 

 line and very acutely angled outwards above inner margin ; orbicular and reni- 

 form defined by black, the former round and placed towards end of cell, the 

 latter with its centre shghtly defined by brown ; postmediai hne fine, black, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, obhque below vein 4, some white 

 points beyond it on costa and the interspaces with fine black streaks ; a fine 

 black terminal Une ; ciha white tinged with rufous and mixed with black. 

 Hindwing semihyaUne white. Underside white, the costal area of both wings 

 irrorated with dark brown. 



Hab. Br. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje (Neave), 1 S type. Exp. 40 mill. 



3982a. Athetis mozambica n. sp. 



Head and tegulae white shghtly mixed with red-brown, the rest of thorax 

 brown mixed with white ; antennae blackish ringed with white ; palpi black, the 

 2nd joint in front and at extremity and the 3rd joint white ; abdomen white 

 suffused with ochreous brown and irrorated with blackish ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen white mixed with some brown, the forelegs and mid 

 and hind tibiae with blackish mixed, the tarsi black ringed with wliite. Forewing 

 wliite tinged with red-brown and irrorated with blackish, the costal area whiter 

 to the postmediai line ; a slight sinuous black subbasal Une from costa to sub- 

 median fold with a point beyond it in the cell ; antemedial line shght, black 

 defined on inner side by whitish, obhque and shghtly waved ; orbicular a small 

 round blackish spot ; reniform incUstinctly defined by black scales and white 

 points with a small white spot at middle of outer edge ; a faint rather diffused 

 dark medial line, excurved to median nervure ; postmediai Une double, puncti- 

 form, black, bent outwards below costa and obUque below vein 4, subterminal 

 Une wliitish defined on inner side by dark-brown suffusion, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; the termen suffused with red-brown ; a terminal series 

 of black points defined on inner side by white ; ciUa dark reddish brown with 

 an ochreous line at base. Hindwing white faintly tinged with reddish brown, 

 the veins and terminal area browner ; a fine dark terminal Une ; ciUa reddish 

 brown with a fine white Une at base and white tips except towards apex ; the 



