450 Nocrrin.i;. 



Genus ASPIDIFRONTIA. 



Tvpp. 



Aspidifi-ontia, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Miis. ii. p. 26'J (1902) semipaUida. 



Proboscis wealc ; palpi short, oblique, fringed with hair in front ; frons with 

 large disk-shaped corneous prduiinence nith raised rim and truncate conical 

 centre ; eyes large, round ; autennaj of male ciliated ; head and tliorax clotiied 

 with hair and hair-like scales with some scales mixed, without distinct crests; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base. Fore wing with -reins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; '.) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole : 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins ?>, 4 from angle of 

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

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the subterminal line interrupted by dentate 



white marks on veins 6, 4, 3, 1 radiata. 



B. Foi-e wing with the subterminal line not interrupted by 



dentate white marks. 



a. Fore wing with the area below cell blackish semipaUida. 



b. Fore wing with the area below c(^ll not blackish. 

 a}. Fore wing with the antemedial line dentate. 



a^. Fore wing with the antemedial line very strongly 

 angled outwards in submedian fold ; clavifor)n 

 absent glaucescens. 



h'^. F'ore wing with the antemedial line moderately 

 angled outwards in' submedian fold ; claviform 



p resent axylid.es. 



//. Fore wing with the antemedial line not dentate rufesccns. 



1793. Aspidifrontia radiata, n. sp. (Plate XCI. fig. 4.) 



Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with blaok ; palpi and frons 

 blackish ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, the veins 

 streaked with black ; the area below submedian fold sulfuscd with 

 grey, extending to below vein 1 at middle, the lower part of cell 

 and area between veins 4 and 5 suffused with grey; the submedian 

 fold with black streak, another above inner margin ; the ante- 

 medial line represented by an oblique black striga from submedian 

 fold to vein 1 ; claviform very elongate and narrow, its upper edge 

 formed by the streaks in submedian fold ; orbicular long and 

 lancecdate, ochreous defined by black, placed on a black streak 

 extending to the reiiiform which is narrow, its upper edge produced 

 and indented, with brown centre with ochreous line in it and 

 ochreous anriulus defined by black ; faint traces of a dentate post- 

 medial line between veins 5 and 3 ; subterminal line represented 

 by a series of ochreous points on dentate black marks, longest 

 below costa and at middle ; veins 6, 4, 3, 1 defined by dentate 

 whitish marks ; cilia chequered fuscous and ochreous. Hind wing 

 ochreous white, the terminal area tinged Avith fuscous ; the underside 

 with the costal area suffused with fuscous. 



Hah, Br. E. Africa, Kikuyu {Craioshay\ 1 $ type, Kibauni 

 (Craioshay), 4 J • ^>-^7>- 30 millim. 



