260 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XX\a. 1919. 



$. Much darker brown, more strongly suffused with purple-grey; the under- 

 side of hindwing with curved dark medial line and the postmedial line more 

 distinct. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Piatt), 1 c?, 2 ? type. Exp. 26 mill. 



6277a. Chlumetia polymorpha n. sp. 



Antennae of male laminate and almost simple. 



(J. Head and thorax fuscous black mixed with some grey-white ; lower 

 part of frons white ; palpi purpUsh red mixed with some white, the tips white ; 

 abdomen purplish red and white, the basal segment sap-green and white, black 

 segmental lines, the anal tuft fuscous at tip ; pectus whitish ; legs fuscous and 

 whitish, the tarsi black, the tibiae at extremities and tarsal joints ringed with 

 white ; ventral surface of abdomen sap-green with some white at base and 

 purple-pink at middle. Forewing black suffused with leaden-grey, the medial 

 area beyond and below the ceU grey tinged with purplish, the postmedial and 

 terminal areas below vein 4 olive-brown ; antemedial line black shghtly defined 

 on inner side by whitish to median nervure, then double and filled in with red- 

 brown, minutely waved, incurved below submedian fold, a white point just 

 beyond it in the cell ; reniform white, its centre defined by sap-green, narrow ; 

 a shght, somewhat waved blackish medial hne, excurved just beyond the reniform, 

 which it touches above and below, then oblique ; postmedial line double filled 

 in with whitish, the inner Une black, the outer less distinct, oblique and shghtly 

 sinuous to discal fold, then inwardly oblique and excurved above vein 1, an 

 oblique, slightly waved, pale line beyond it from costa to discal fold, an oblique 

 black fascia from it in discal fold to termen below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, dark, slightly waved, some white before it between veins 4 and 2, 

 and some white suffusion beyond it at apex ; a waved black terminal line ; cilia 

 grey-brown with a waved black line at middle and chequered with blackish at 

 tips. Hindwing purpUsh fuscous, the terminal half of vein 2 with alternating 

 black and whitish marks ; cilia whitish with strong dark reddish-brown line at 

 middle. Underside of forewing fuscous, the costal area red-brown irrorated with 

 white, the terminal area irrorated with white, postmedial line with obhque white 

 striga from costa, bent outwards below costa, then double, fuscous filled in with 

 whitish and obliquely curved, an indistinct, shghtly waved, dark red terminal 

 line : hindwing white mixed with purplish red, a black discoidal spot, minutely 

 waved blackish medial and postmedial lines and double subterminal hne, a 

 waved black terminal hne. 



Ah. 1. Abdomen pinkish rufous except at base, the anal tuft sap-green, the 

 forewing with the outer half of medial area whitish tinged with pinkish red, the 

 lower half of terminal area tinged with green. 



$. Forewing more variegated, with whitish tinged with rufous and with 

 sap-green at costa and lower half of termen. 



Ab. 2. Forewing with semicircular black patch on inner area from near 

 base to near tornus. 



Ab. 3. Forewing with the medial area beyond and below the coll white 

 tinged with pink, the inner half of postmedial and terminal areas pale rufous. 



Hab. Transvaal, White R. (Cooke), 1 ? ; Natal, Durban (Piatt), 3 cJ, 3 $ 

 type. Exp. 22-24 mill. 



