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underside with black isli striga from middle of costa and 

 obliquely placed blackish postmedial spots on and below 

 costa. 



Hub. Transvaal, Barberton, Noord Kaap [Jeffery), 1 ^ 

 type. Exp. 28 mm. 



4020 a. Athetis strigata, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax ochreous white with some brown 

 scales especially on tegulse ; palpi blackish at sides ; antennae 

 black ; prothorax with small black spot ; tarsi brownish with 

 pale rings ; abdomen whitish irrorated with brown except 

 at base and on ventral surface. Fore wing ochreous white 

 irrorated with brown, forming diffused streaks in tlie inter- 

 spaces except on costal area, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown; a subbasal blackish point on costa; traces of an 

 oblique sinuous anteraedial line ; a medial brownish spot on 

 costa and traces of an oblique line from lower angle of cell 

 to inner margin ; postmedial line with brownish spot at 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, then excurved and 

 minutely waved, defining the inner edge of the dark terminal 

 area ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure 

 wliite ; a slight brownish terminal line from apex to vein 2 ; 

 the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa [Coryndon), 1 ? type. Exp. ^0 mm. 



4020 b. Athetis poliophcea, sp. n. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen grej-brown, the pectus 

 and ventral surface of abdomen whiter. Fore wiug grey- 

 brown, the terminal area cupreous brown except towards 

 apex, the costal area slightly irrorated with white ; traces of 

 a sinuous dark antemedial line ; a curved blackish medial 

 line ; postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa ; two slight subterminal wliite spots below costa ; a 

 terminal series of black points with white points before 

 them. Hind, wing fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish with a 

 dark line at base ; the underside brown thickly irrorated 

 with white. 



Hab. W. Colombia, R. Dagua, Naraujito, 1 $ type. 

 Eap. 34 mm. 



4061 a. Ariathisa nyctimesa, sp. n, 



cj . Head and thorax bluish grey irrorated with fuscous ; 

 palpi black, white at tips; lower part of frons white^ the 



