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NOCTUIDJE. 



round base of antennse, and on back of head orange ; thorax grey, 

 the base of tegiila; and patagia white ; pro-, meso-, and mttathorax 

 with paired yellow spots ; pectus and legs black, the latter banded 

 with orange; abdomen fuscous with orange bands, the hair at base 

 grey or whitish. Pore wing grey ; the costal area and cell whitish 

 to near apex, before the antemedial line extending to vein 1 ; the 

 lines slTong, black ; subbasal and antemedial lines sinuous, the 

 former from costa to vein 1 , the latter slightly angled inwards in 



¥ig. VIS. — Diaphone eumela, (J. \. 



cell ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform a crimson lunule, 

 defined by black at sides ; postmedial line angled outwards between 

 veins 6 and 5, then incurved, defined by white on outer side ; no 

 sublerminal line ; cilia chequered orange and fuscous. Hind wing 

 pure white, sometimes with curved postmedial line ; the underside 

 always with postmedial mark on costa. 



2 . Hind wing suffused with fuscous, the base often whitish ; 

 cilia chequered fuscous and white ; a sinuous postmedial line 

 showing through from underside. 



Ab. 1. mossamhicensis. Antennse of male strongly serrate; fore 

 wing with the crimson centre of reniform largo and rounded. 



JIab. C. Africa, Staz Gadda (Emin Pasha), 1 $ ; Poktuguese 

 E. Africa, Chiperoni {Kirhy), 1 S ; Angola ; Transvaal, Piet 

 lletief ( CraivsJiu)/), 1 $ ; Natal, Newcastle, 1 <S , Karkloof 

 (Marshall), 1 $ , Durban (Gtieinzius, Leifjh), 1 c5' i 2 5 ; Basutoland, 

 Masite {Weiqall), 1 S; Cape Colony, 3 5, Grahamstown, 1 J, 

 Brak Kloof (White), 1 § . Exp. 40-52 millim. 



Larva. Fawcett, Trans. Zoo). Soo. xv. p. 318, pi. 49. ff. 10, 11. 



Buff; each somite with a broad dark crimson band except the 

 1st and 11 th, where the band is pale ferruginous with some small 

 black spots. At the final moult the bands become velvety black 

 except on ]st and 11th somites, and the ground-colour is pale 

 greenish. Head, legs, and claspers pale ferruginous. Food-plant, 

 Or 'lithor/alum ecldoni. 



Genus POLYTELODES, nov. 



Type, P.fiorifera. 



Proboscis slender, aborted ; palpi oblique, short, clothed with hair ; frons 

 with roughened rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; ejes large, 

 rounded; antenna; of male ciliated; head and ihorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales and without distinct crests ; abdomen with some rough hair at base and 

 without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen obliquely 



