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Subfamily ASCOTINAE. 



9. Calamodes lignaria spec. uov. 



Forewings : pale wood-colour, speckled with fuscous ; the veins marked with 

 pale ferruginous ; costa marked with short black streaks and tinged with fuscous ; 

 first line from one-fourth of costa to inner margin close to base, bluntly bent 

 outwards in cell, then obliquely sinuons inwards ; outer line from three-fourths of 

 costa to two-thirds of inner margin, bluntly angled on vein 6, denticulate above and 

 creunlate below ; the marginal area from just beyond this line suffused with smoky 

 brown black, through which an irregularly waved submarginal line can be traced ; 

 marginal lunnles black ; fringe brown, somewhat chequered ; cell-spot black and 

 large ; there appear to be traces of a dark shade close before and jiarallel to tlie 

 outer line. 



Hindwings : paler ; three dark curved lines, all becoming obsolete before 

 the costa, median, postmedian, and submarginal, the postmedian most distinct, 

 creunlate ; marginal area darker, but not so dark as in forewings. 



Underside uniformly freckled with fuscous and grey ; the outer lines shown 

 on both wings. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; face dark brown. 



Expanse of wings : 31 mm. 



1 <S, Cubal River, Angola, March 1899 (Penrice). 



Subfamily SELIDOSEMINAE. 

 Genus Xylopteryx Gueu., Pkal. i. p. 215. 



To this genus must be transferred the species placed by me (cf Nov. Zool. 

 ix. pp. 525. 520), in Scotoptcrix : viz. albimacidata Warr., emnnctaria Guen., 

 interposita Warr., and versicolor Warr., with its aberrations. This last species is, 

 I find, identical with protearia Guen., the type of the genus ; Guen^e's figure of 

 protearia is very inadequate, not to say misleading. Scotosia ? InciiUscafa Wlk., 

 Cut. XX vi. p. 1724 — also identical Yiiih ^jrotearia — represents the aberration whicli I 

 have called albimcdiu. 



In the description of versicolor it was remarked that some examples have the 

 usually paler broad central space narrowed by the outer area — that between the 

 median and exterior lines— being filled up with darker. It seems therefore not 

 unlikely that Guenee's other species emuuctaria, described as a Boarmia, from a 

 worn ¥, distinguished mainly by the narrowness of the central fascia, should also be 

 referred to protearia as a further aberration, the median line, in the one case, being 

 prominently developed while the exterior becomes faint, in the other the dilference 

 between the lines being reversed. 



The other two new species albimaculata and interposita are closely related to 

 Walker's smaller species Xylopteryx arcuata, described by him twice as a Larentia 

 {Cut. xxiv. J). 1191 and 1193) under the names arcuata and sii/jlectata, und a 

 third time as Ciduria laticinctata {Cat. xxv. p. 1399). 



Subfamily SEMIOTHISINAE. 



10. Calletaera ansorgei spec. nov. 



Forewings: sandy ochreous, speckled with darker; basal and outer lines 

 marked only by i)rown sjiots on veins, at one-fourth and two-tliirds resjiectively, 



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