264 



xoctuid.i: 



streak at vein 4. Hind wing yellowish, white, the apex faintly 

 tinged with brown ; the underside with the costal area tinged with 

 rufous. 



5 . Hind wing wholly tinged with rufous. 



Hub. Mashonalaxd, Salisbury {Marshall, Dol>l>ic),3 d , 1 2 type: 

 Transvaal, White R. (Cooke'), 1 $ , Piet Ketief (Crawshay), 1 d ; 

 Natal, Malvern {Marshall), 2 <3 , Durban (Boivker), 2 d ; Cape 

 Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett), 1 $ . Exp. 28-32 millim. 



Genus RAMESODES, nov. 



Type, B. divisa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to middle of frons and moderately sealed, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round; thorax smoothly clothed with hair and scales, the prothorax 

 with slight spreading crest; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. 

 .Fore wing broad, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely 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 disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipeetinate with rather long branches, the apex 

 serrate, of female with short branches. 



4652. Earnesodes divisa. 



Charidea divisa, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 292 (1902). 



d . Head and thorax black-brown ; antennae and base of tegul*B 

 reddish brown ; abdomen ochreous white at base, fuscous brown at 

 extremity. Fore wing black-brown slightly irrorated with white 

 scales, a broad ochreous fascia tinged with rufous above below 

 costa from base through the cell to termen above vein 5, defined 

 below by a slight black streak above median nervure and vein 4 

 with fine white streak above it, the veins on the ochreous area 



Fig. 109. — Earnesodes divisa, J . }. 



brownish, a fine whitish streak below vein 6, the inner margin and 

 the submedian interspace on terminal half rufous; the lines absent ; 

 the lower part of reniform defined by white interrupting the black 

 .fascia; the interspaces of terminal area with fine black streaks, 

 longer towards costa. Hind wing whitish slightly tinged with 

 brown, the terminal area suffused with brown from apex to vein 2 ; 



