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92 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



wings ochreous ; terminal area of fore wings blackish, enclosing a 

 grey quadrate spot below middle ; all the wings with black discoidal 

 spot and black dotted postmedial line. 



5 . Rather paler, transverse lines less distinct. 



Expanse, <? 40 milUm., $ 42 millim. 



Collection number, 808. 



One example of each sex from Koannania ; the male captured 

 in March, 1908, and the female in April, 1906. 



Ectropis pulveraria, sp. n. 



J' . Fore wings grey brown, sprinkled with blackish ; antemedial 

 line black, curved ; postmedial line black, elbowed below cell, incurved 

 before dorsum ; subterminal line whitish, irregularly serrated, in- 

 wardly clouded with black towards costa and dorsum ; discoidal mark 

 black, elongate. Hind wings rather browner ; antemedial line blackish, 

 indistinct ; postmedial line black, curved and recurved ; subterminal 

 line pale, irregularly serrated, inwardly shaded with blackish ; dis- 

 coidal mark blackish, minute. Under side whitish brown, freckled 

 with darker ; subterminal area of fore wings blackish, except at apex ; 

 subterminal area of hind wings clouded with blackish ; all the wings 

 have a blackish discoidal spot. 



2 . Similar to the male above ; on the under side the outer third 

 of all the wings is blackish, except towards termen of hind wings. 



Expanse, 32 millim. 



Collection number, 628 a. 



A male specimen from Kanshirei (7300 ft.), April, 1908 ; a 

 female from Koannania, May, 1907. 



THREE NEW CULICID^ FROM THE TRANSVAAL. 



By Fred V. Theobald, M.A., F.E.S., &c. 



Pseudohowardina lineata, nov. sp. 

 <? and $ . Head deep brown, with a median white line and a 

 thin white line around the eyes ; proboscis deep brown, with a line 

 of white scales on the basal half. Thorax deep brown, with three 

 thin pale yellow lines, the median one forked around the bare space 

 before the scutellum, a thin white line on each side ; two broken 

 white lines on the pleurae and spots. Abdomen deep brown, with 

 traces of apical white bands and apical spots. Legs deep brown, un- 

 handed, femora with a white hne beneath, and in certain lights the 

 tibiae pale below. Male palpi acuminate, no hair tufts, brown. 

 Length, $ 3-5 to 4-5, <? 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Onderstepoorfc, Transvaal. 



Tiine of Capture. — August 8th and 11th, 1910. 



Observations. — Described from three females and one male. 

 A very marked species, easily identified by the thoracic orna- 

 mentation. 



Types in the writer's collection. 



