PROCANTHIA. — I'Al! A I'll K YGTA. 493 



below costa, somewhat oblique to lower angle of cell ; then erect ; 

 a scries of small black spots on apical part of costa and termen. 

 Hind wing white ; a small blackish discoidal spot and a terminal 

 series of small black spots from apex to vein 2 ; cilia slightly 

 tinged with yellow. Underside of fore wing wholly suffused with 

 black; hind wing with the diseoidal spot prominent. 



Hab. "(term. S.W. Africa,' 1 Okahandja ; Mozambique, 1 ^ ; 

 Transvaal (Pead), 2 c? , Kranspruit (Jaime), 2 6 type, Johannes- 

 burg {Hyde), 1 6 . Exp. 26-36 millim. 



*2050 a. Procanthia distanti. 

 Lacipa distanti, Dewitz, Verh. Leop. -Carol. Akad. xlii. p. 68, pi. 3. f. 7 



(1881). 



6 ■ Head j'-ellow ; thorax grey-brown with two yellow points 

 on metathorax ; abdomen yellow with grey-brown segmental lines. 

 Fore wing silvery white ; subbasal black points below costa and 

 cell ; an antemedial yellow band with series of black points on its 

 inner side, angled outwards on median nervure ; the interspaces of 

 medial area black except at costa and inner margin, leaving the 

 orbicular and reniform stigmata white ; a postmedial yellow band, 

 incurved below vein 4, with conjoined black points on its inner side 

 from costa to vein 5, and a series of black spots on outer side ; a 

 curved subterminal series of black spots. Hind wing whitish with 

 some brown on termen towards apex and tornus. 



Hab. Cape Colony. Exp. 38 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



Genus PARAPHRYGIA, no v. 



Type P. rectangulata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching' 

 to about middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd 

 short and thickly scaled ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna? of male 

 ciliated ; tibia? with all the spurs present ; abdomen dorsally clothed with 

 rough hair at base. Pore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the 

 termen obliquely curved ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 shortly stalked ; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 

 11 from cell; the male with elliptical patch of androconia in and below the 

 cell towards extremity on underside. Hind wing ample, the costa rather 

 arched towards apex and slightly clothed with upturned scales on underside, 

 the apex rather obliquely truncate to vein 6 ; vein 2 from towards angle of 

 cell ; 3 and 5 shortly stalked,-! absent ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell to beyond middle and highly arched towards apex. 



In key differs from Hijponerita in the fore wing having veins 4, 5 stalked 

 and the hind wing veins 3 and 5 stalked. 



*2051 a. Paraphrygia rectangulata. 



Phryganopteryx rectangulata, Kenrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1913, p. GOO, 

 pi. 31. f. 1. 



<5 . Head and thorax white tinged with grey-brown, the frons 

 with lateral black spots above, the vertex of head with black spot 

 with a crimson spot on each side of it ; antennae blackish ; palpi 



