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4G66. Calamistis fusca. 

 Sesamia fusca, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 293 (1902). 



Head and thorax red- brown mixed with dark brown ; tarsi dark 

 brown with pale rings ; abdomen oehreous tinged with red-brown. 

 Pore wing red-brown suffused with dark brown ; traces of a curved 

 dark antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform small, oehreous with 

 very slight whitish annuli defined by black, the former rather 

 oblique and produced at lower extremity ; an indistinct blackish 

 postmedial line, oblique towards costa, then dentate and oblique 

 below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa : subterminal 

 line represented by an oblique series of oehreous marks in the 



Fig. 116. — Calamistis fusca, $ . -J. 



interspaces between veins 7 and 2, defined on inner side by wedge- 

 shaped black marks, and with slight black marks beyond them to 

 the small terminal lutiulcs. Hind wing oehreous whitish tinged 

 with brown ; traces of a discoidal point and diffused subterminal 

 line; the underside oehreous irrorated with brown, a faint discoidal 

 lunule and diffused postmedial line. 



Hah. N. Rhodesia, Katanga Distr. (Neave), 1 J ; Transvaal 

 (Pead), Id, 1 ?, Pretoria (Sivierstra), 1 2, White R. (Cooke), 

 1 cf ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 <$ , Durban (Innes), 2 $; 

 Basuxoland, Maseru (Grawshay), 3 $ ; C. Colony, Annshaw (Miss 

 F. Barrett), 4 <$ , 2 $ type. Exp. 34-42 millim. 



4667. Calamistis pallidicosta. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 6.) 

 Baniana pailidicosta, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 4C3 (1902). 



2 . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with some oehreous 

 especially on tegulse ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen oehreous 

 mixed with brown. Fore wing fuscous brown slightly irrorated 

 with reddish oehreous, the costal area oehreous irrorated with 

 rufous and fuscous, narrowing to a point just before apex, the 

 costal edge darker ; a slight black streak below base of cell ; 

 eubbasal line represented by faint double dark stria? from costa, 

 the antemedial line by faint double dark striae from costa and traces 

 of a line from cell to inner margin ; claviform a very indistinct 

 short blackish streak ; orbicular and reniform. oehreous irrorated 

 with brown and incompletely defined by black, a black fascia 



