32 Mr. A. J. T. Janse on new South African 



Poliostola phycitimorpha, sp. n. 



Male and female. Head, palpi, first joint of antennae and shaft 

 of antennae in female, thorax, abdomen on upperside warm buff (xv) 

 tinged here and there with tawny (xv) ; palpi, frons and sides of 

 head well tinged with tawny ; shaft of male antennae black ; thorax 

 and abdomen on underside tmged and irrorated with black; fore 

 femora vinaceous- rufous (xiv) ; tibia and tarsi heavily irrorated with 

 black; mid- and hind-legs black, ringed with ochraceous-buff, 

 broadly at femora, narrower on tibiae and very narrowly at the end 

 of each joint; spurs light ochraceous-buff, tipped and edged out- 

 wardly with black. Fore-wing with the ground-colour pinkish- 

 cinnamon (xxix), but for the greater part of costal and termmal area 

 tinged and irrorated with fuscous (xlvi) except the base of wings, 

 tlie area between medial and postmedial line below submedial fold, 

 a fascia from apex to postmedial line at vein 6, and a narrow line 

 beyond postmedial to inner margui; medial line made distinct by 

 glaucous-green (xxxiii), scales before and beyond it in the dark 

 costal area, but continued as a fuscous fascia beyond submedial 

 fold; the line is curved from middle of costa to lower median, 

 where it is slightly indented, then obliquely curved to 16 at ^, 

 where it is again indented, then well curved to imier margin; reni- 

 form of ground-colour, narrowly edged with black and broadly 

 surrounded by glaucous-green scales; postmedial line indicated at 

 dark costal area by glaucous-green scales beyond it as far as vein 6, 

 then more sharply defined on ground-colour by its fuscous- black 

 colour, dentated outwardly on the veins and curved inwardly between 

 veins lb to 2 and sharply angled inwardly below 1&; a fuscous-black 

 subterminal line from vein 7, where it forms a streak on the vein and 

 a broad patch below vein 6, then somewhat angled on the veins and 

 parallel to postmedial from which it is separated by the ground- 

 colour; a glaucous-green scaling between subterminal and terminal 

 lines, which is black and broadest near apex; cilia vinaceous- 

 rufous at base, then a double fuscous fascia of which the inner one is 

 broadest and tipped with fuscous; glaucous-green scales between 

 the fascia. Hind-mng whitish ; a fuscous irrorated postmedial line 

 from costa to Ic, much angled at vein 4; some fuscous irroration 

 beyond it at costa; a terminal fuscous irroration from costa to la, 

 fainter but broader between veins 3 and Ic; cilia whitish with an 

 indistinct fuscous fascia across from apex to Ic and tipped with 

 fuscous. 



Underside: — ground-colour of both wings whitish; fore- wing 

 densely irrorated with black and fuscous from costa to below lower 

 median as far as discocellulars and from costa to vein G as far as 



