SOUTH AFRICAN BAGWOKMS. 59'3 



Fore wing thinly covered with fuscous hairs and scales ; 

 ■costa with a fuscous-black edging ; upper and lower median, 

 disco-cellular, vein Ih and veins 2 to 9 thickly covered with 

 iuscous-black scales ; postmedial area between veins 2 to 4 

 and 7, 8 and terminal area between 4-5 and 6-7 very thinly 

 scaled so as to represent whitish maculae when the moth is 

 placed above a light underground ; inner margin edged with 

 fuscous-black from one-third ; cilia very short, fuscous, mixed 

 with fuscous-black. 



Hind wing covered evenly with fuscous scales and hairs ; 

 all veins, except la and Ic, sharply defined with fuscous- 

 black ; cilia fuscous. Underside of both wings like upper- 

 side, but without the dark scaling on the veins. 



With expanded wings 26-30 mm. 



Hab. — Ladysmith (September 10th, 1915, bred by C. B. 

 Hardenberg) ; New Hanover (September 23rd, 1915, bred by 

 ■C. B. Hardenberg) ; Pretoria (bred by A. J. T. Janse). 



The description given by Heylaerts is very good, and leaves 

 no doubt about the correctness of the identification. In 

 structure this species differs from the Indian species 

 variegata in the following details : 



Fore wing with the branches from Ih to inner margin, not 

 from one point, but at intervals from one-fourth to two-thirds 

 ■of the length of this vein, and the branches do not reach the 

 inner margin ; stalk of 4 and 5 over one-third, nearly half; 7 

 remote from stalk of 8, 9 ; hind wing with Ic very faint ; 

 4, 5 on a stalk of nearly one-third ; 7 not connected by a bar 

 to 8 ; a very oblique bar from half upper median to 8 ; some- 

 times a second short angled erect bar from upper median at 

 three-fourths to the junction of first bar and vein 8 ; veinlets 

 from 8 to costa very faint ; process of fore tibije slightly 

 shorter than tibia?. 



-Species auctorum : 



Eumeta cervina D/vtce, Proc.Zool. Soc.Lond.,p.684, 1887. 

 The following description is given by Druce of this species: 

 "Male like E. cramerii, but the primaries redder in colour, 



