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NOCXCIDJC. 



Genus TUMIDIFKONTIA. 



Tumidijrontia, Hmpsu. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 282 (1902) 



Type. 

 castaneotincta. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi very short, porrect, and slightly fringed with hair 

 elow, not reaching nearly to extremity of the very large rounded frontal 

 prominence, with corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennae of 

 male bipectinate with short branches to apex ; thorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales, pro- and metathorax with large spreading crests; tibiae fringed with 

 long hair, the tarsal joints with slight tufts of hair; abdomen with dorsal 

 crests on basal segments. Fore wing rather loug and narrow, the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anas- 

 tomosing with the cell near base only. 



4311. Tumidifrontia castaneotincta. 



Tumidifrontia castaneotincta, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 283 (1902). 



S • Head and thorax rufous mixed with grey and a few blackish 

 scales ; tegulse and patagia at tips and thoracic crests bright rufous ; 

 legs pale rufous, the tufts of hair on tarsal joints whitish ; abdomen 

 whitish tinged with rufous except at sides towards base, the crests 

 bright rufous. Fore wing pale violaceous grey suffused with pinkish 

 on basal and costal areas, the medial area whitish ; some black 

 irro ration at base and on inner area before the antemedial line, 

 which is pale rufous defined by whitish on inner side, minutely 

 waved, oblique ; orbicular and reniform rather small, whitish 



Fig. 1. — Tumi Jifrontia castaneotincta, $ • 



defined by diffused rufous, the former round, the latter with rufous 

 line in centre ; a rufous medial line, diffused to median nervure, 

 then sinuous ; postmedial line indistinct, rufous defined by whitish 

 on inner side, slightly bent outwards below costa, then sinuous, 

 strongly incurved below vein 3 and bent outwards from submedian 

 fold to inner margin, some black suffusion beyond it on inner area ; 

 a fine brown terminal line cilia whitish tinged with pink. Hind 

 wing white, the costa and termen slightly tinged with ochreous 

 brown ; the underside with pinkish suffusion from middle of costa 

 to middle of discocelhuars 



Hab. Mashonaland Salisbury {Marshall), 1 S type. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



