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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



518 (Plerocymia). The generic name Pleroci/mia, Hiib,, is purely 

 a synonym of Larentia, Tr. ; its type {clavaria, Haw., = cervi- 

 nata, Schiff., nee cervinalis, Scop.) has biangulate dc in the 

 hind wing, which is not the case with the present genus. 



Onychia (/) lamprammodes, sp. n. 



2 , 30 mm. Head, body and tip of palpus whitish, iiTorated wnth 

 sandy and fuscous ; palpus otherwise sandy, irrorated with fuscous ; 

 abdomen beneath strongly mixed with sandy ; thorax in front with 

 a narrow fuscous bar. Fore wing narrow^ costa nearly straight, 

 slightly convex basally and distally, faintly concave between ; whitish 

 ochreous, almost entirely covered by bright sandy ochreous markings, 

 costal edge slightly darker to sc (excepting apical end) ; markings 

 consisting of about twelve, mostly ill-defined lines, running obliquely 

 from inner margin ; the first four (proximal to the discal dot) acutely 

 angled in cell, the fourth (indicating the commencement of a slightly 

 darkened, more reddish ochreous median band) marked with fuscous 

 at inner margin and on m at origin of M-; the next four nearly 

 straight, the eighth conspicuous, forming the distal boundary of the 

 central fascia, and followed by a fine pale line ; the next two also 

 nearly straight, in a pale band which runs to costa at apex, last two 

 virtually coalesced into a narrow band ; cell-spot minute, black ; 

 terminal line fuscous, broken up into spots ; fringe concolorous with 

 termen. Hind wing narrow, costa long, apex rounded, prominent, 

 termen slightly sinuous, scarcely convex ; nearly concolorous with 

 fore wing, slightly less bright, base and a postmedian band whitish, 

 the intermediate area blurred, with a confused suggestion of four 

 transverse lines ; a diffuse, sandy ochreous subterminal band ; cell- 

 spot, terminal line and fringe nearly as in fore wing. Under side 

 blurred sand-colour, finely (the hind wing more coarsely) irrorated 

 with darker ; both wings with ill-defined pale postmedian band and 

 small dark cell-spot. 



Near Johannesburg (Edmund A. Bacot). Type in coll. L. B. 

 Prout, presented by Mr. A. Bacot. 



Affinities somewhat doubtful, perhaps nearest to " Plero- 

 cymia " albiclausa, Warr., Nov. Zool. iv. 236. The shape and 

 pose of markings superficially recall a narrow-winged specimen 

 of Horisme (e.g. minuata, Walk., or especially aquata, Hiib.), 

 but the abdomen is not crested ; dc^ of the hind wing is extremely 

 oblique, and c anastomoses to very nearly the end of the cell. 



Subfam. GEOMEiRiNi^s. 



Ectropis (?) amphitromera, sp. n. 



? , 36 mm. Head and body brown mixed with fuscous, abdomen 

 with paired black dorsal spots. Palpus quite moderate, stout. Fore 

 and middle legs mostly fuscous, pale at ends of joints (hind legs lost). 

 Fore wing moderately broad, apex blunt, termen faintly waved ; 

 ochreous brown coarsely irrorated with fuscous ; markings dark 

 fuscous ; antemedian line obscure, placed and bent as in delosaria, 



