new African Moths. 467 



legs ochreous white mixed with rufous, the tibiae green above ; 

 abdomen black-brown, the extremity green, with some black 

 hairs, the ventral surface yellowish white. Fore wing bright 

 yellow-green irrorated with black; subbasal line double, 

 black, excurved just below costa, at middle, and above inner 

 margin ; antemedial line slight, double, black, irregularly 

 waved, the lines wider apart at costa, angled outwards in 

 lower part of cell and at vein 1, a slight streak of white scales 

 beyond it in submedian fold; orbicular and reniform faintly 

 defined by white scales, the former amphora-shaped, the 

 latter narrow, an oblique black striga above it from costa ; 

 postmedial line double, black, waved, oblique, somewhat bent 

 inwards between veins 6 and 4, some black points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line black, with a brown patch before 

 it between veins 6 and 4, where it is incurved, and a smaller 

 patch in submedian interspace, dentate at veins 4, 3, 2, and 

 ending at tornus ; cilia chequered brown and green. Hind 

 wing pale tinged with red-brown, especially on inner area, 

 the veins darker ; cilia whitish at tips ; the underside ochreous 

 white, with a faint red-brown tinge on costal area. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh), 2 <$ , 1 ? type. Exp., 

 cJ 50, ? 60 mm. 



Larva. Whitish suffused with purplish pink and with 

 numerous fine white rivulet lines enclosing irregular spaces, 

 the ventral surface pale ; eighth and ninth abdominal somites 

 with patch of small white spots emitting an oblique streak 

 to a lateral triangular patch on seventh somite ; head with 

 pair of black fasciae ; stigmata black ringed and centred with 

 white ; second thoracic somite with pair of long subdorsal 

 horns. 



Nearest to S. viridescem, Wlk. 



Stauropus atribasalis, sp. n. 



S . Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with some 

 whitish ; palpi whitish in front ; pectus and legs pale red- 

 brown mixed with whitish ; abdomen ochreous white suffused 

 with red-brown, the hair at base of dorsum black-brown. 

 Fore wing whitish tinged with pale yellow-green and irro- 

 rated with black-brown, the basal area suffused with black- 

 brown bounded by the double oblique waved black subbasal 

 line, angled inwards in cell to near base; antemedial line repre- 

 sented by an inwardly oblique black -brown striga from costa ; 

 some slight black-brown marks on discocellulars and above 

 end of cell ; postmedial line very indistinct, dark, oblique 

 diffused and dentate from costa near apex to vein 4, where it 



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