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TJOCTUIDJE. 



Genus SYNCALAMA, nov. 



Type, S. mimica. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, hardly extending as far as irons 

 and fringed with long hair below ; frons with large round corneous prominence 

 with raised edges and short central process hollowed out in front ; a trilobate 

 corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; antennas of male serrate ; thorax 

 clothed with rough hair and hair-like scales and without crests ; tibiaj moder- 

 ately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing 

 with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly 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 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4602. Syncalama mimica, n. sp. 



cf . Head and thorax oehreous mixed with brown ; antennae 

 red-brown ; upper edge of patagia and metathorax with some 

 blackisb scales ; abdomen pale oehreous dorsaily suffused with 

 brown. Fore wing oehreous yellow suffused in parts with brown, 

 especially on inner basal area, in and beyond cell, and on postmedial 

 area ; subbasal line represented by slight black stria? from costa 

 and cell ; traces of a black streak below base of cell ; antemedial 

 line rather ill-defined, black, oblique, waved ; claviform large, rather 

 incompletely denned by black ; orbicular and reniform large, yellow 



Fig. 89. — Syncalama ■mimica, <$ . j-. 



defined by black, the former round, the latter open above and 

 rather constricted at middle ; an indistinct waved black line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown, rather 

 ill-defined, excurved from costa to vein 5, then oblique ; subter- 

 minal line hardly denned except by the constrast between the 

 rufous and yellow areas, waved, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle, then incurved ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia yellow mixed with rufous. Hind wing yellowish white with 

 terminal series of small black spots ; the underside with the costal 

 area slightly irrorated with rufous, a small discoidal spot and rather 

 diffused curved postmedial line from costa to vein 4. 



Bab. Cape Colony, Heelfontein (tiloygett), 1 S type. Eacp. 

 36 millim. 



