470 



NoriiMD.a:,- 



Sect. II. Auteunic of luule ciliated. 



1817. Graphania atavistis. 



Aspidifrontia atavistis, Hiiipsu. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 441 (1DU2). 



(S . Head and thorax clothed with pale and darlv hrown, black 

 and white hair ; tegulaj with black medial line ; abdomen brownish 

 ochreous, whitish at base. Fore wing pale and dark brown ; the 

 costal area ochreous irrorated with some dark scales to beyond 

 middle, the subcostal veins streaked with white ; the inner urea to 

 submedian fold ochreous, leaving vein 1 dark and defined by pinkish 

 and white scales and an oblique dark streak above inner margin 

 except at base ; claviform a narrow elongate, black-defined streak 

 from base ; orbicular small, diamond-shaped, ochreous defined by 



Fig. 13U. — Liraphuiiia utuvi.'iti.s, ^j' . i. 



black ; reniform with its upper part ochreous, its lower whitish and 

 angled inwards on median nervure to origin of vein 2 ; the inter- 

 spaces beyond the cell slightly streaked with black ; an ochreous 

 subtcrminal mark above and below vein G and a V-shaped mark 

 between veins 3 and 4; the extremity of the veins streaked with 

 white ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous 

 white, the veins tinged with brown, diffused towards termen ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; the underside with the 

 costal and apical half of terminal area irrorated with fuscous ; a 

 discoidal lunule. 



Hah. Cape CoLOxr, Trauskei (Miss F. Barrett), 1 tS type. 

 E:cj). 'S-i millim. 



Genus TMETOLOPHOTA, nov. 



Type, T. propria. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, tlie 2nd joint fringed 

 •with long liair iu front ; Irons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna; of niale 

 serrate and fasciculate; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the prothoras 

 with divided anterior crest; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore 

 wino- rather short and broad, the termen rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from lUanasti>mosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell, llind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 6 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocelluiar.s ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 ■with the cell near ba.se only. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform not forming a 



V-shaped mark propria. 



33. Fore wmg with the orbicular and reniform forming a V-shaped 



mark poh/gona. 



