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Head and bod// silvery grey, witli a rufous brown dorsal line down the centre. 

 Ex]iause, 2 inches = 51 milliiu. 

 Hdb. Namaqualand. 



Lophuron maculatum sp. nov. 



Forewings chocolate grey, with a black stigma with whitish centre in the cell. 

 Just in front of the cell is a large dark clincolatc wedge-sliaped patch running from 

 the costa to almost the centre of the wing. Almost touching the apex is a smaller 

 chocolate patch, and running from the outer margin to the cell is a broad bar of 

 pale chocolate. Across the wing run five hairlike, half-obliterated transver.se lines. 



HindiriiM/s greyish chocolate, with a dark grey border and a narrow, dark grey 

 submarginal band across the wings. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark rosy grey. 



Expanse, 2'25 inches = 57'4 millim. 



Hub. Natal. 



Lophuron magnificum sp. nov. 

 (PL v., fig. 7.) 



Foreiriiif/s pale grey, with a triangular dark olive jiateh near the centre of the 

 wings, and running from the costa almost the entire width of the wing; in the centre 

 of this patch is a white dot. 



There are two indistinct zigzag lines of deep brown crossing the forewings 

 transversely near the base, and three oblong olive patches, more or less defined, 

 along the inner margin. 



Hindwings base brilliant yellow, remainder cinnabar red, with a large grey 

 patch at the anal angle crossed by three black bars. 



Underside : forewings grey, basal half-orange, and a large black blotch in cell, 

 with a white spot in centre. Hindwings grey, with white dot in centre. 



Head grey, thorax greyish olive, with pale grey centre. 



Abdomen- grey, with three dorsal longitudinal rows of indistinct olivaceous dots. 



Expanse : male, TTo inches = 44"6 millim. ; female, 2-25 inches — 07-4 millim. 



Hub. Namaqualand. 



Lophuron inornatum s]). nov. 

 (PI. v., tig. s.) 



Foretcimjs pinkish grey, crossed at the base by two indistinct dark grey zig/.ag 

 lines ; inner margin blackish grey, with a white jjatch a third of the length i'rom 

 the base. 



Apical patch sharply cut otf from the rest of the wing by a diagonal black 

 streak, and the tij) of tlie wing slightly clouded. 



Hindwings dull rnfous cliestnut, with a dark brown border. 



Head and thorax rufous grey. 



Abdomen pale grey, freckled with black. 



Expanse, 1"75 inches = 44-6 millim. 



Hah. Namaqualand. 



Lophuron pseudopylas sp. nov. 

 This species is somewhat dilKcult to describe owing to its considerable varia- 

 bility. 1 have picked out from a large series the two extremes. 



