( 482 ) 



Underside whitish, thickly and coarsely speckled with red-brown : a diffuse 

 curved onter line on both wings in costal half. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale 

 tinged with flesh-colonr. 



Expanse of wings : 33 mm. 



I ? from tlie foot of the Nienwveld Mts., 6 miles N.W. of Beaufort West 

 (Mrs. Butt). 



In the original diagnosis of the genus Euomoea, Ifoi-. Zoo/, iv., p. 124 (1897), 

 vein Id of forewings was said to anastomose and become coincident with the stalk 

 of 8, 9 ; it anastomoses only, without becoming coincident ; veins 8, 9 separate 

 only close before costa at apex ; a fact which was overlooked, and hence the 

 error. The ? proves to have shortly pectinated antennae. 



51. Exelis extorris spec. uov. 



Forcwimj : ashy-grey, faintly rufous-tinged, slightly specklcil with black ; 

 lines blackish, very obscure, except on costa and inner margin ; first curved at 

 one-fourth ; median a little before middle, oblique outward to an obscure dark 

 cell-spot, then inwards to just before middle of inner margin ; outer line at three- 

 fourths, below 6 sharply dentate and marked with black spots on veins ; a faint 

 submarginal shade starting from a dark costal blotch ; a row of black marginal 

 sjjots ; fringe concolorous. 



Hindwing : with antemedian, dentate postmedian, and faint submarginal 

 shades, plainest on inner margin ; cell-spot black, large and distinct. 



Underside with large black cell-spots, and the median and outer lines marked 

 mainly by black spots on each margin. 



Thorax and abdomen like wings ; verte-x, autennal shaft, and shoulders paler 

 grey ; face and palpi dark brown. 



Expanse of wings : 46 mm. 



1 (J, 1 ? from Durban, Natal (G. F. Leigh). 



I leave this species for the present in the American genus Exelis Guen., 

 with which it agrees in the main ; veins lit, 11 are long-stalked, not coincident 

 throughout. 



